Home Remedies Using Fruits to Treat Illness
Banana: Dip in diluted salt water and freeze for a unique taste. Banana peels can be sliced, soaked in vinegar, then mixed with bitter melon and chopped lettuce for a delicious dish. Alternatively, slice and coat with egg and flour, then deep-fry. Banana pulp can be mashed and blended into ice cream, frozen, or added to jelly and cooled into banana jelly cake. It can also be wrapped in rice flour and boiled as tangyuan. Eating bananas after heavy drinking helps relieve intoxication.
Apple: Combine with soaked silver ear fungus and simmer in cold water, optionally adding goji berries and dates to soothe lungs and stop coughing. Fresh apple juice can prevent coughing and hoarseness. Apple puree warmed up serves as an excellent remedy for indigestion in children and the elderly.
Pear: Helps generate saliva, quench thirst, clear heat, and relieve cough. One method: hollow out the core, fill with Fritillaria, rock sugar, and honey, then steam. Second: cut into pieces with skin on, steam in a bowl with added rock sugar, best eaten hot with honey. Third: cut into chunks with skin, stew with papaya, honey dates, and pork bones—cleanses lung heat and improves appetite. Fourth: soak silver ear fungus, then stew with pear in cold water, add goji berries and dates according to taste. Alternatively, mash into pear paste, add rock sugar, and consume to clear heat and treat cough.
Bitter Gourd: Must be thoroughly disinfected before raw consumption to prevent parasitic infection; soaking in salt water suffices. Bitter gourd can be cooked in dishes, preferably steamed or boiled. After peeling, juice can be consumed to treat sore throat.
Sugarcane: Squeeze juice and drink; drinking after alcohol helps detoxify.
Pomelo: For those prone to colds, coughs, or sensitive airways, use fresh pomelo with peel removed and core discarded, combined with 50g each of northern apricot, fritillary bulb, and unbleached silver ear fungus (or yellow ear fungus), plus honey, stewed for one day. Regular consumption strengthens the lungs.