There is a popular saying, “An apple a day, and the doctor stays away from me.” “This not only reflects apples’ status as a nutritious fruit, but also reveals its potential in promoting health. However, many people don’t know that apples can be eaten directly and can have many unexpected effects when cooked.

1、The apple in the eyes of Chinese medicine

Modern research has confirmed that it is rich in pectin and polyphenols, and has a two-way regulatory effect:
✅ Raw apples: strong coldness, suitable for real heat physique
✅ Ripe apples: peaceful and warm supplements, more conducive to spleen and stomach absorption

Note that those with spleen and stomach deficiency are recommended to eat cooked food and avoid eating it raw.

2、10 “Golden Recipes for Apples”

1. Apple white fungus and red date soup

· Method: Cut 1 apple into pieces, remove the core of 6 red dates, and soak 1 white fungus and tear small flowers. After the water boils, add red dates, white fungus and rock sugar, simmer for 20 minutes, add apples and cook for another 20 minutes.

· Efficacy: Nourish yin and lungs, nourish blood and invigorate qi, improve dry cough and dry skin caused by yin deficiency and lung dryness.

· Applicable people: people with dry lungs, cough, lack of qi and blood. Patients with nephritis and diabetes should use with caution.

2. Apple, pear, tangerine peel, chrysanthemum drink

· Method: Cut 1 apple and 1 pear into cubes, add 5 grams of tangerine peel, 2-3 chrysanthemums, 1 slice of ginger, and cook for 20 minutes.

· Efficacy: Clear the throat and moisten the throat, relieve autumn dryness, suitable for people with excessive eye use or dry throat.

· Suitable for people: It can be drunk in the early stage of wind-heat cold.

3. Hawthorn apple tangerine peel water

· Method: 8-10 hawthorn cores, 2 apples cut into cubes, add 2 liters of water to boil, then turn to low heat and cook for 10 minutes, add rock sugar to taste.

· Efficacy: Eliminate food accumulation, moisten the lungs, improve loss of appetite and stomach distention.

· Applicable people: people with physical weakness after illness, food accumulation and constipation. Not suitable for people with hyperacidity and pregnant women.

4. Apple, pear, apricot and ginger soup

· Method: 2 apples and pears are cored and cut into cubes, add 10 grams of apricots and 5 slices of ginger, and cook for 1 hour.

· Efficacy: Shengjin quenches thirst, relieves cough and asthma, and is suitable for people with yellow and viscous phlegm and constipation.

· Applicable people: those with lung fever, cough, phlegm, and those with weak and cold constitution need to add ginger slices.

5. Papaya, apple, black chicken soup

· Method: 1 peeled and cut into pieces of papaya, 2 pieces of apples, 300 grams of black chicken blanched and boiled with ginger for 1 hour, add salt to taste.

· Efficacy: Moisturizing and nourishing the skin, nourishing qi and blood, improving dull skin and lack of qi and blood.

· Suitable for: women and people with frailty. Use with caution in damp and hot constitution.

6. Apples remove yellow water

· Method: Cut 1 apple into pieces, add 3 red dates, 5 grams of astragalus, 5 grams of wheat Dong and cook for 15 minutes, 5 grams of wolfberry and add the last 5 minutes.

· Efficacy: Regulates qi and blood, improves the dull yellow face caused by staying up late.

· Suitable for: Women who stay up late for a long time and are deficient in qi and blood.

7. Apple longan soothing tea

· Method: Cut 1 apple into pieces, 6 longan meats, add water and cook for 20 minutes, you can add a small amount of brown sugar.

· Efficacy: Calms the mind and calms the nerves, strengthens the spleen and stomach, relieves anxiety and insomnia.

· Suitable for: people with high stress and poor sleep quality. Diabetics add less sugar.

8. Apple Rose Beauty Water

· Method: Cut 1 apple into cubes, add 3 roses, 4 red dates and cook for 15 minutes, 5 grams of wolfberries and add them for the last 5 minutes.

· Efficacy: Beauty and beauty, regulate qi and blood, suitable for people with sallow complexion.

· Applicable people: women and those with insufficient qi and blood, brown sugar can be added during menstruation.

9. Apple and poria soup

· Method: Cut 1 apple into cubes, 15 grams of poria cocos, 3 slices of ginger, 4 red dates and cook for 30 minutes.

· Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness, enhance digestion, improve edema and bloating.

· Applicable people: people with weak spleen and stomach, heavy dampness.

10. Apple Bright Eye Tea

· Method: Cut 1 apple into cubes, add 5 grams of chrysanthemums and 10 grams of wolfberries and cook for 10 minutes.

· Efficacy: Clears the liver and eyes, relieves eye fatigue, and is suitable for people who use their eyes excessively.

· Applicable people: students, office workers. Pregnant women should use chrysanthemums with caution.

3、Precautions

· Diabetic patients need to control sugar (such as rock sugar, brown sugar) and replace it with natural sweeteners.

· In the early stage of damp heat constitution and cold fever, use warm tonic formulas (such as longan and astragalus) with caution.

· It is recommended to eat the pulp with water to absorb more dietary fiber and minerals.

· Remember to refrigerate the boiled apple water and do not exceed 24 hours to prevent spoilage.

· Dietary supplements have the effect of health preservation and adjuvant therapy, but they cannot replace drug treatment.