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The apple may be common, but it’s healing properties are not common place. According to Paul Pitchford (Healing with Whole Foods), the apple can “moisten dryness and cool heat in the lungs–protect the lungs from cigarette smoking; stimulate the appetite; remedy indigestion–this ability is due in part to the presence of malic and tartaric acids in the apples, which inhibit the growth of ferments and disease-producing bacteria in the digestive tract.”