What is good for children to eat to dissolve phlegm

  Chinese medicine classifies phlegm into cold phlegm, wind phlegm, hot phlegm, damp phlegm and dry phlegm, each of which is caused by different pathological factors and cannot be generalized. Clinically, it is recommended to differentiate the symptoms to give suitable dietary regimen and use the taste of food to correct the influence of external evil.  1. Cold phlegm: caused by cold evil offending the lungs, with white phlegm, children are afraid of cold and prefer hot drinks.  Radish and honey drink Ingredients: 5 slices of white radish, 3 slices of ginger, 3 jujubes, 30 grams of honey.  Method of serving: boil the radish, ginger, jujube with water for about 30 minutes, remove the dregs, add honey, boil again and take it warm. Take 1 to 2 times daily.  It is most suitable for wind-cold cough.  2, dry phlegm: caused by dry climate, dry evil invade the lungs, phlegm sticky and not easy to cough out or cough blood.  Chuanbei mother steamed pear Ingredients: snow pear or duck pear a, Chuanbei mother 6 grams, ice sugar 20 grams.  Method of serving: the steamed pear and the Chuanbei mother together with the food.  3, hot phlegm: from the heat evil invade the lung or first suffer, make the fluids burn and transformed into wind-cold evil after transformation, cough yellow sticky phlegm, the patient is afraid of heat like cool drinks, red tongue with yellow moss, thick and greasy.  Water chestnut and lily soup Ingredients: water chestnut (horseshoe) 30 grams, lily 1 gram, snow pear l, ice sugar appropriate amount.  Method of serving: the three mixed with water decoction, after adding an appropriate amount of rock sugar boiled until cooked soup thick. Warm consumption.  4, damp phlegm: damp invasion invade the human body (such as living in a humid environment), so that the lungs, spleen dysfunction or diet, the spleen and stomach dysfunction caused by transport and transformation. The phlegm is white thin watery, accompanied by heavy body, tiredness or loose stools and other symptoms.  Ginseng, lotus seed and lily soup Ingredients: 50 grams of ginseng, 25 grams each of lotus seed, lotus seed and lily, 1 egg.  Method of serving: wash ginseng, yu zhu, lotus seeds, lily, and eggs with shells into the pot, stew together for half an hour, take out the eggs and remove the shells, then stew together until the drug is soft and rotten. Eat the eggs and drink the soup, and add sugar to taste.  Coughing and phlegm in children are common in the course of acute upper respiratory tract infections, bronchitis or pneumonia. Food therapy methods as an auxiliary method to resolve phlegm and cough can be very good to help the recovery of the child’s lung function and alleviate the trachea.