Pears, flowers, leaves, roots and skins all have high medicinal value. Pear is sweet, cold and slightly sour, and has the effects of clearing away heart fire, moistening dryness and relieving annoyance, diuresis, clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening throat and resolving phlegm, reducing fire and relieving cough. It is mainly used for treating cough, phlegm and asthma, thirst aphonia, infantile wind-heat, red eyes, sore throat and dysuria. Eating pears after meals can promote gastric juice secretion.
Pears are eaten raw, tender and juicy, sweet and refreshing, and processed into canned pears, pear paste, pear wine and dried pears, which are also good products.
Pears are delicious, but because of the cold, people with a cold stomach and a cold cough in loose stool and pregnant women should not eat more.