1. Grapes:
Rich in iron and sugar, grapes are an excellent tonic for children, women, and those with anemia or weakened constitutions. Additionally, grapes promote fluid production, nourish the liver and kidneys, facilitate urination, replenish yin, and relieve irritability, making them highly effective for treating restlessness and thirst.
2. Star Fruit:
Star fruit has a sweet and sour taste with a neutral nature. Its water-rich flesh promotes fluid production and quenches thirst. Eating fresh star fruit can alleviate symptoms of wind-heat coughs or sore throats in autumn. For hot, scanty urine, take 2-3 fresh star fruits, wash, chop, and mash into juice. Mix with warm boiled water and drink twice daily.
3. Banana:
Eating bananas at the start of autumn effectively prevents autumn dryness. Traditional Chinese medicine considers bananas sweet and cold in nature, with high medicinal value. They promote gastrointestinal motility, clear heat, moisten the lungs, quench thirst, and alleviate alcohol toxicity. Thus, they are suitable for those with internal heat or during the dry autumn season.
4. Pears:
Pears are the optimal choice for autumn consumption. Their sweet, juicy flesh offers benefits including clearing heat, detoxifying, moistening the lungs, generating fluids, resolving phlegm, and relieving coughs—making them exceptionally effective against dryness. They can be eaten raw, juiced, stewed, or simmered into a paste.
Vegetables Suitable for Early Autumn
1. Chinese Cabbage:
During autumn and winter, the air becomes exceptionally dry. Chinese cabbage, with its slightly cooling nature, helps clear heat, relieve irritability, quench thirst, promote urination, facilitate digestion, and clear lung heat. To clear heat, dry dampness, promote diuresis, and support bile flow, increase consumption of heat-clearing, diuretic foods like Chinese cabbage to achieve therapeutic effects.
2. Chinese Yam:
Chinese yam nourishes and strengthens the body, aids digestion, reduces spontaneous sweating, and stops diarrhea. It is primarily used to treat spleen deficiency diarrhea, lung deficiency cough, diabetes with excessive thirst, frequent urination, nocturnal emissions, vaginal discharge in women, and chronic enteritis with indigestion.
It pairs best with Ganoderma lucidum to prevent and treat diabetes. Consumed during stomach bloating, it promotes digestion, alleviates discomfort, and enhances spleen-stomach digestive absorption—a mildly tonifying food-medicine dual-use ingredient.It primarily treats lung wasting, lung heat, constipation, hemoptysis, bloating, food stagnation, indigestion, excessive phlegm, and irregular bowel movements. Boiling white radish and drinking the resulting broth with a touch of sugar makes an excellent beverage that aids digestion and nourishes the stomach.