What should I do if my child has a cough?

  Many parents ask about their children’s coughs. In fact, children’s coughs are a very complicated problem, and there are many types of evidence in Chinese medicine, but it is an easy disease to treat, because children’s bodies grow every day and recover quickly, and if medicine is administered in time, they will recover quickly.  If we only talk about external coughs, our first response is very important. If we just find signs, we can take immediate measures to intercept the disease, but if we are stumped or hold the idea of looking again, when the disease has become a problem, it will be much more complicated. The patient is physically and mentally exhausted after a long time of treatment. So I would like to remind you that the initial stage of an external disease is very important, just like a fire, when there is a small fire, a glass of water or a puff of clothes will put it out, but when the whole house is on fire, don’t hesitate, run, no one can put it out except the fire department. Zhao Ying of the Department of Pediatrics of the Ningxia Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine My view on coughs is that, like colds, when they start, they must be cold, must be cold, have a clear nose, and have white phlegm. Then put a little orange peel, is the fruit stalls sell oranges, many friends asked me, in the end is the orange or orange or something? My answer is that they can, the medicinal use of orange plants are similar, generally with a quarter of the orange peel, washed (some vendors for aesthetic reasons, to the orange peel coated with oil-like substances, if you are not sure, you can peel off a layer of the outer skin), cut into strips, and boil water together with Su Ye.  Boiling time to pay attention to the treatment of lung meridian medicine, must not boil more, open the pot for three or five minutes to take its light and clear gas, the actual want is it inside volatile substances. This water, you can give your child as the usual drinking water, just like tea, but must be warm.  At the same time, you can boil water with six grams of Su Ye, then mix it into warm water and give the child a foot bath to warm up his body so that the cold will disperse, then the body will recover. Generally, a mild cough in its initial stage can basically be resisted back if such measures can be taken immediately.  However, if we do not pay attention, this stage passes (sometimes the first stage is very short and people do not grasp it), and then we enter the second stage, when the external evil starts to fight with the body and heat appears in the body, which is called the stage of external cold and internal heat, when the nasal discharge starts to be yellow, or yellow-white, clear for a while, yellow for a while, which is a mixture of cold and heat, and phlegm, which many children do not Many children do not cough up phlegm, but you can hear the sound of phlegm getting louder, and if the phlegm comes out, it is also yellow, or yellow-white.  The vast majority of parents, when they take their children to treatment, are at this stage, basically no previous stage.