In recent years, some cities have severe pollution, which has a significant impact on lung health. Additionally, for those who often engage in outdoor work or mining, the harm to lung health can be significant if they do not pay attention to strengthening labor protection. Moreover, long-term smoking can also be harmful to the lungs. Therefore, it is recommended to consume foods that can purify the lungs. There are many such foods, which have good effects on lung moisturizing, cough relief, and expectorant, such as black fungus, which is excellent in purifying the lungs. It can promote the metabolism of waste substances in the human body. Moreover, radishes and pears also have excellent lung-purifying effects, which can promote the excretion of impurities in the lungs.

1, Black fungus

It is known to have a lung-cleaning effect, which can absorb and concentrate the dust and impurities remaining in the human digestive system and excrete them out of the body, thus playing a role in clearing the stomach and intestines. It also has a significant dissolving effect on endogenous foreign bodies such as gallstones and kidney stones. It is best to steam and eat it with sesame sauce and cucumber, which is even better, and it also has the effects of lowering blood fat, preventing blood viscosity, and weight loss. Of course, those with bleeding diseases, diarrhea, and pregnant women should eat it with caution.

2, Loquat

It has a neutral taste, sweet and sour, and is non-toxic. Fresh eating has the effects of moistening dryness, clearing the lungs, soothing cough, harmonizing the stomach, stopping vomiting, and generating body fluid. The aescin in loquat can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, remove phlegm, and is used to treat various kinds of cough.

It is forbidden to eat for those with spleen deficiency and loose stools, and for diabetics.

3, Radish

It is white in color, belongs to the metal element, enters the lung meridian, has a sweet and spicy taste, and belongs to the lung and spleen meridians. It has the effects of descending Qi, digesting food, clearing the lungs, detoxifying and generating body fluid, and promoting urination and bowel movements. It is mainly used for symptoms such as lung atrophy, lung heat, constipation, hemoptysis, abdominal distension, food retention, poor digestion, excessive phlegm, and unsmooth defecation. It is recommended to drink a radish soup boiled in pure water for the best effect.

Caution should be exercised for those with loose stools due to deficiency of the spleen; it is forbidden to eat for those with gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, chronic gastritis, simple goiter, threatened abortion, and prolapse of the uterus.

4, Lily

It has a neutral taste, a little bitter, is non-toxic, and enters the heart and lung meridians. It can nourish yin and clear heat, moisten the lungs and quench thirst, calm the mind and tranquilize the spirit, and treat symptoms such as prolonged coughing from tuberculosis, hemoptysis due to yin deficiency, feverishness and lung abscess, remaining heat after fever, restlessness and palpitations, confusion of the mind, insomnia and dreams, and edema of the feet. The processing time should not be too long, otherwise the juice in the lily will decrease, and the detoxification effect will be greatly reduced. Note: It is forbidden to eat for those with wind-cold flu, spleen deficiency, and loose stools.

5, Pork blood

It can effectively remove dust and harmful metal particles from the human body; modern medical research has found that the protein in pork blood can produce a disinfectant and moistening substance after being decomposed by gastric acid. This substance can undergo biochemical reactions with dust and harmful metal particles entering the human body, and then these harmful substances can be excreted out of the body through excretion, making it the ‘cleaner’ of human waste. Note: Caution should be exercised by those with hypercholesterolemia, liver disease, hypertension, and coronary heart disease; it is forbidden to eat during illness or during the stage of upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

6, Starfruit

It contains various components beneficial to human health, such as sugar, vitamin A, vitamin C, and various fiber substances, as well as oxygen. The medicinal value of starfruit is also significant, and it has a good effect on the treatment of ulcers, chronic headaches, and swelling and pain from falls and injuries. The fiber and oxygen it contains can relieve internal heat, clear dryness, moisten the intestines, and promote bowel movements, making it the most suitable cooling fruit for those with heat in the lungs and stomach.