Can I use supplements for pediatric asthma?

  Asthma is divided into deficiency asthma and actual asthma, and it is one of the basic treatment rules of traditional Chinese medicine that “tonic” is used for “deficiency”. Therefore, tonic medicine is only applicable to children with asthma who have deficiency.  Deficiency evidence of pediatric asthma can be generally divided into three types: 1, lung deficiency type: often when the temperature changes, easy to catch a cold, cold and sweating. If it is not satisfactory, it can be treated with Yu Ping Feng San plus Gui Zhi Tang; 2. Spleen deficiency type: the child is stuffy with little food, distended abdomen and insubstantial stools. If you see phlegm and dampness inside the obstruction, then add Cang Zhu and Hou Pu to transport the spleen and transform dampness; if you see cold in the extremities, loose stools, clear and long urine, you must imitate the method of Li Zhong Tang, and add cooked sophora and dried ginger (or ginger) above to support Yang and transport the spleen; 3, kidney deficiency type: asthma phlegm and cough are slow, with shortness of breath as the main symptom. Common in older children, especially after excessive activity, such as exercise, climbing, weight bearing, shouting, etc., the shortness of breath is more obvious. The treatment is to strengthen the kidney and benefit the qi, and the formula is to add and subtract from Dihuang Tang.  According to Chinese medicine, children are “infantile yin and yang”, so tonic should not be taken indiscriminately or indiscriminately. Therefore, it is important to avoid the use of many tonic drugs, especially the use of drugs that warm the kidneys and strengthen the yang, so as not to cause “precocious puberty”. You can try to use medicinal meals to children with tonic: 1, almond pig lung porridge – promote the lung and lower the air, resolve phlegm and cough: 10 grams of almonds, 90 grams of pig lung, 60 grams of round-grained rice. Remove the skin tip of the almond, wash. Pork lung washed, cut into pieces, put in the pot out of water, and then rinse with clean water. Put the cleaned japonica rice with almonds and pig lung into a pot, add water, cook with moderate heat into a thin porridge, season to taste. Serve as desired. It is used for people with asthma who have a strong phlegm and phlegm, such as cough, phlegm, breathlessness, or even asthma, roaring in the throat, chest fullness, and slippery pulse. 2. Lycopodium japonica rice porridge – strengthen the spleen and eliminate food: 20 grams of lycopodium, 50 grams of japonica rice. The water research of lycopodium filtered, take the juice of about 100 ml, add japonica rice, and then add about 350 ml of water, cooked as a thin porridge, twice a day, warm to eat. It is suitable for children with phlegm and shortness of breath, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and discomfort; 3. Gorgonzola Walnut Porridge: Gorgonzola 30 grams, walnuts 20 grams, red dates 10, round-grained rice 50 grams. Each of the above flavors is cooked with round-grained rice into porridge and served in portions, or can be eaten regularly. It is used for asthma in remission, those who have kidney deficiency and cannot absorb qi, with symptoms such as shortness of breath, shortness of breath, cold in the extremities, weakness of the knees and waist, tinnitus, pale tongue and white smooth coating.