🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Banana: Eat frozen after dipping in diluted saltwater—excellent taste. Banana peel can be sliced, soaked in vinegar, then mixed with bitter melon and shredded lettuce—delicious. Alternatively, slice and coat with egg and flour, then deep-fry. Banana pulp can be mashed and mixed into ice cream, frozen, or added to jelly, cooled to make banana jelly cake, or wrapped in rice flour and boiled as dumplings. Additionally, eating bananas after drinking alcohol helps relieve intoxication.
Apple: Boil with soaked silver ear fungus in cold water, optionally adding goji berries and red dates—moisturizing and helpful for cough. Fresh apple juice prevents cough and hoarseness. Apple puree warmed up is an excellent remedy for children and elderly with indigestion.
Pear: Promotes saliva production, quenches thirst, clears heat, and stops cough. One method: hollow out the core, fill with sour apricot, rock sugar, honey, and steam. Second: cut into pieces with skin, steam in a bowl, preferably with rock sugar, mix with honey while hot—best effect. Third: cut into chunks with skin, boil with papaya, honey dates, and pork bones—clears lung heat and stimulates appetite. Fourth: soak silver ear fungus, boil with pear in cold water, optionally add goji berries and red dates per taste. Additionally, mash into pear paste, add rock sugar, and consume—helps clear heat and treat cough.
Water Chestnut: If eaten raw, ensure thorough disinfection to prevent parasitic infection; soaking in diluted saltwater suffices. Water chestnuts can be cooked in dishes, best steamed or boiled. After peeling, extract juice and drink to treat sore throat.
Sugarcane: Squeeze juice and drink; drinking after alcohol helps relieve intoxication.
Pomelo: For those prone to colds, cough, or sensitive airways, use fresh pomelo with peel removed and core extracted, combined with 1 liang (50g) of northern apricot, motherwort, and undyed silver ear fungus (or yellow ear fungus), add honey, stew for one day. Regular consumption strengthens the lungs.