"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"With the advent of winter, children's respiratory diseases have entered a period of high incidence, which is especially easy to cause cough in children. Although coughing is a protective reflex that can prevent foreign bodies from being inhaled and clear secretions from the respiratory tract, if the cough does not heal for a long time, or even becomes more intense, it will not only seriously affect the child's sleep and diet, prolong the course of the disease, but also cause distress to parents.
Recently, Yao Qipeng, the attending physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, gave six dietary prescriptions as relief tips for six types of cough in children.
It is difficult to take medicine because of the pain of injection, and the traditional Chinese medicine diet therapy is symptomatic relief
According to Yao, common causes of cough in children include upper respiratory tract infections, acute and chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, pneumonia, rhinitis, pharyngitis, cough variant asthma, etc. When children cough in traditional Chinese medicine, cough is generally divided into six syndrome types: wind cold, wind heat, phlegm heat, dry heat, yin deficiency, and food accumulation cough, and the dietary therapy methods are different for different types of cough.
1.Wind chill cough
Dietary Prescription] Perilla tangerine peel water.
Ingredients: 9 grams of perilla, 9 grams of tangerine peel, two or three slices of white radish, appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Method] Put the tangerine peel and white radish into an appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat and simmer for about 25 minutes, then add the perilla, cook for about 3 minutes, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar to taste.
Directions] Twice a day, take it while it is hot, generally take 100ml-200ml, you can take a small amount frequently.
2.Wind-heat cough
Therapeutic formula] Sangju almond tea.
Ingredients: 10 grams each of mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, and bitter almonds.
Method] mash the almonds, then put them in a thermos flask with mulberry leaves and chrysanthemums, brew them with boiling water, simmer for 15 minutes, add some rock sugar to taste, and drink them as tea at a suitable temperature.
3.Phlegm-fever cough
Dietary prescription] fish reed loquat drink.
Ingredients: 30g of Houttuynia cordata, 10g of honey-burned loquat leaves, 10g of reed root.
Method] Add 500ml of water to boil over high heat, then simmer for 15 minutes, leave about 200ml, and take it warmly in 3-4 times.
Efficacy] Houttuynia cordata, honey-burned loquat leaves, and reed root have the effects of diarrhea and cough, phlegm and asthma, clearing heat and phlegm, and are suitable for children with more yellow phlegm.
4.Hot and dry cough
Therapeutic Formula] Chuanbei Sydney Pear Soup.
Ingredients: 1 pear, 3 grams of Chuanbei, appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method] Wash the pear, peel it, dig out the hollow core, put in the Chuanbei and rock sugar, and steam it through the water to drink the soup.
Efficacy] Chuanbei has the effect of dissolving phlegm and relieving cough, nourishing yin and moisturizing the lungs, after adding pears, the effect of moistening and drying is better, suitable for children with dry cough or less phlegm that is not easy to cough up.
5.Yin deficiency cough
Therapeutic formula] white fungus lily soup.
Ingredients: 30 grams of fresh lily and white fungus, appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method] After washing and soaking the white fungus, put it in a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, turn to low heat and boil slowly after boiling, boil until soft and sticky, put in lily and rock sugar, and after the lily is cooked, it can be eaten.
Efficacy] This soup is a folk prescription for nourishing yin and moistening the lungs and relieving cough, and has a certain effect on relieving lung yin deficiency and cough.
6.Cough with esophage
Dietary prescription] hawthorn white radish water.
Ingredients: 30 grams of fresh hawthorn, 100 grams of white radish, a little sugar. If there is no fresh hawthorn, you can use 10 grams of dried hawthorn instead.
Method] White radish wash and slice;Wash the hawthorn and cut the core. Put the white radish and hawthorn into the casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, turn to low heat and cook for 30 minutes after boiling, and add sugar. Drink soup, eat white radish, hawthorn.
Efficacy] Eliminate food accumulation, clear the lungs and dissolve phlegm, suitable for cough in children with food accumulation.
In addition, Yao Qipeng also reminded that in addition to dietary therapy, we should also pay attention to the daily life care of children. First of all, a light diet, not too sweet, too salty, too greasy and spicy and irritating food, the diet should be hot, soft, and less;The second is to avoid the wind and cold, increase or decrease clothes in a timely manner, don't freeze and don't cover;Finally, we should also pay attention to environmental sanitation and strengthen indoor ventilation.
Chengdu **Jinguan News Reporter Zhu Xinyue Responsible Editor He Qitie Editor Wen Zhu.