What role does steamed pear with pepper have on the road to health?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the elderly are prone to feel the evil of wind-cold due to yang deficiency, which leads to lung qi failure and upward cough. Symptoms are cough, thin and white sputum, heavy cough, itchy throat, often accompanied by stuffy nose, runny nose, headache and so on.

Take 1 pear, cut it horizontally, remove the core, put 10 pepper and 2 crystal sugar, then put the pear in a bowl, steam for 30 minutes, remove the pepper, and eat 1 time every day.

Zanthoxylum bungeanum tastes pungent and warm, and has the effects of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, removing dampness and relieving pain, inhibiting various bacteria and viruses, calming and regulating immune function; Pear tastes sweet and cool, and has the effect of moistening dryness and resolving phlegm; Rock sugar is sweet and flat. It has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating qi, regulating the stomach and moistening the lung, and can also reconcile the medicinal properties.

The combination of the three has the effects of expelling wind and cold, dispersing lung qi and relieving cough, and is suitable for people with cough due to wind-cold.