What Foods Are Most Effective for Clearing the Lungs and Cooling the Blood? What Exercises Are Beneficial for Children’s Growth?

Question

What foods are most effective for children’s cough relief and expectoration? What exercises are beneficial for children’s growth?

Answer

Pears have the effects of moistening dryness, clearing heat, and resolving phlegm, making them suitable for symptoms such as injury from heat disease, hot cough, and restlessness. Persimmons have the functions of clearing heat, clearing the lungs, moistening the intestines, and cooling the blood. Apples are beneficial for heart and Qi tonification, moistening the lungs, and lowering blood pressure. Sugar cane can nourish Yin and moisten dryness, harmonize the spleen and stomach, and moisten the lungs. Water chestnuts (Chinese water caltrop) can cool the blood and clear heat, especially suitable for people with hot coughs with purulent sputum. It is recommended to use 250 grams of fresh water chestnuts each time, wash them clean, peel them, blanch them in boiling water, and eat them raw in the morning and evening, for 3 to 5 consecutive days.