If your throat is inflamed, eat these seven kinds of heat-reducing fruits

When you have a cold or get a sore throat, it is often accompanied by symptoms. Throat inflammation not only affects our normal eating, but also makes drinking water feel uncomfortable. If the inflammation is not very serious, you can eat some fruits to reduce the heat and treat it!

1. Lemon

Lemon is one of the most medicinal fruits in the world. It is rich in vitamin C, sugars, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, and vitamin B2, and is very beneficial to the human body. It is called "anti-inflammatory fruit" and it acts like a natural antibiotic on the human body. It has many functions such as antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, and enhancing human immunity.

Lemon honey water is not only a favorite weight loss recipe for women, but also has the effect of relieving symptoms of throat inflammation. The specific steps to make lemon honey water are: cut fresh lemon slices (three to four slices each time) and put them in a cup of water. Pour in cold boiled water or pure water, add honey (I personally think acacia honey tastes better), put it in the refrigerator for at least two hours, and then you can drink it. (When drinking on an empty stomach in the morning, you need to take the lemon water out of the refrigerator 20 minutes in advance to avoid irritating the stomach and intestines).

2. Pear

Pears contain protein, fat, sugar, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals, and multiple vitamins. They have the effects of lowering blood pressure, nourishing yin and clearing away heat, promoting appetite, helping digestion, and have diuretic, laxative and antipyretic effects. They can be used to replenish water and nutrition during high fever. Pears have the effects of moisturizing dryness and eliminating wind, moistening the lungs, eliminating phlegm, clearing away heat, and detoxifying. Pear is the "king of fruits" and is also known as "natural mineral water" because of its juicy, sour and sweet taste.

Sichuan Fritillary Bulbs stewed with pear has the effects of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, replenishing qi and strengthening the stomach. We prepare 5 fen of Fritillaria cirrhosa, 5 qian of lily, half a piece of tangerine peel, 1 pear, and an appropriate amount of ice pond. Specific method: Wash the medicinal materials and set aside, cut the tangerine peel into shreds, wash the pears, peel and core them, cut them into pieces, put them into the pot and stew for about 2 hours, and add ice pond before serving.

3. Honey

Honey is a nutritious natural nourishing food and one of the most commonly used tonics. According to analysis, it contains a variety of inorganic salts and vitamins with concentrations close to those in human serum, various organic acids such as iron, calcium, copper, manganese, potassium, phosphorus, and trace elements beneficial to human health, as well as fructose, glucose, amylase, oxidase, reductase, etc. It has the effects of nourishing, moisturizing, detoxifying, whitening and nourishing the skin, and moisturizing the intestines and promoting bowel movements.

We can use honey to make magnolia honey tea. 1. Remove the magnolia petals, wash them, add half a teaspoon of salt to clean water, and soak the petals for a while; 2. Drain the washed magnolia petals and put them in a teapot; 3. Pour enough boiling water into the pot, cover it and soak for 20 minutes; 4. Add appropriate amount of honey or sugar according to your taste and it is ready to drink. This magnolia honey tea has a refreshing and mellow fragrance with a sweet aftertaste and can be used to treat symptoms of sore throat.

4. Tomato

Tomatoes are rich in carotene, vitamin C and B vitamins. The lycopene contained in tomatoes has the effect of inhibiting bacteria; the malic acid, citric acid and sugars contained in tomatoes aid digestion. Tomatoes taste sweet and sour, and are cool and slightly cold in nature. It can clear away heat and quench thirst, nourish yin, cool blood, and enter the liver, stomach, and lung meridians. It has the effects of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, strengthening the stomach and aiding food, clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and calming the liver, nourishing blood and increasing appetite.

Tomatoes are cool in nature and can be squeezed into juice to soothe the throat. The material is 500g of tomatoes. The steps are: 1. Wash the tomatoes, pick about 500g of green ones and put them into the juicer to make juice. Later I squeezed the yellow and red ones separately, but didn’t take pictures; 2. You can add a large spoonful of honey.

5. Carrots

Carrot is a common vegetable that is crisp, delicious and nutritious, and is known as "little ginseng". Carrots are rich in nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, volatile oils, carotene, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, anthocyanins, calcium, iron, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that carrots are sweet in taste, neutral in nature, and have the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight, and clearing away heat and detoxifying.

Radish and olive porridge is mainly used to treat pharyngitis. The recipe is: 50 grams of carrots, 30 grams of olives, and 100 grams of japonica rice. The specific method is to wash the carrots, slice them, fry them with olives to extract the juice, and then add them into glutinous rice to cook into porridge. Take 1 dose daily for 5 to 7 consecutive doses.

6. Apple

Every 100 grams of apples contains 6.5-11.2g of fructose, 2.5-3.5g of glucose, and 1.0-5.2g of sucrose; it also contains trace elements zinc, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, and vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and carotene. Its nature and flavor are sweet, sour, flat, slightly salty, and non-toxic. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that apple has the effects of promoting fluid and quenching thirst, moistening the lungs and relieving restlessness, strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing the heart and invigorating qi, moistening the intestines, stopping diarrhea, and relieving heat.

We can make apple honey water: peel 5 apples, cut into small pieces, add 1 liter of water, boil for 5 minutes, cool naturally to 40℃, add a little lemon juice and appropriate amount of honey, stir well, and drink in small amounts several times a day.

7. Orange peel

Orange peel contains a large amount of vitamin C and essential oil. Orange peel has the functions of regulating qi and resolving phlegm, strengthening the stomach and removing dampness, and lowering blood pressure. It is a very good Chinese medicinal material. You can wash it, dry it, soak it in white wine, and drink it after 2 to 3 weeks. It can clear the lungs and reduce phlegm.

In addition to orange peel wine, you can also make orange peel tea: cut the washed orange peel into strips, cubes or blocks, and brew it with boiling water or drink it with tea.

The above seven foods have the function of clearing heat and reducing fire. Patients with sore throats can eat more of them, and ordinary people can also eat more of them to prevent getting angry and catching a cold.