When a child is sick, the most worrying thing for parents is to see a doctor and take medication. How to correctly decoct and feed the medicine is a matter of concern, the following tips hope to answer your questions. 1. What is the right appliance for cooking medicine? Traditionally, Chinese medicine is decocted in a casserole, because it heats evenly and has good insulation properties; however, it is possible to use stainless steel, enamel or aluminum pots and pans. However, you must not use an iron pot to prevent certain drugs in the herbs from reacting with the iron pot and producing harmful toxins, and you must pay attention to the fact that the decocted herbs must be discarded and cannot be taken. 2. How much water is appropriate to put in the soup when cooking the medicine? After taking the herbs back, add water for the first time to submerge the herbs by 1 cm. After soaking for 10-20 minutes, boil them over high heat (shorter for cold and flu medicines, longer for tonic medicines), boil them for 10-15 minutes over moderate heat, and pour out the liquid. Add cool water to boil for the second time, the water can not exceed the dregs of the medicine. Boil for about 10 to 15 minutes, mix the medicinal liquid twice and turn off the fire. 3. How much of the liquid is left at the end? Generally speaking, a total of 75-150ml of the liquid is suitable for children to take. If more liquid is cooked, you can boil it again with the dregs and concentrate the liquid to the right time to turn off the heat. It is not necessary to make the liquid too concentrated in order to make the soup less, because the taste of the liquid will be more bitter and less acceptable to the baby. 4.How many times a day is it appropriate for children to take medicine? Small babies can take medicine in small amounts, 2 to 3 spoons at a time, and again at intervals. As long as the decocted herbal medicine is finished within a day, it can achieve the purpose of treatment. 5. Can I put sugar in my baby’s Chinese medicine? It is better not to put sugar in the herbal medicine. If it is really difficult to feed the medicine, you can add a small amount of icing sugar or reward a piece of icing sugar after the baby eats the medicine, so that the baby can accept it more easily and can make him drink the medicine more smoothly. 2 reminders for taking Chinese medicine 1. You can instill medicine, but you can’t pinch your nose. If the child really does not cooperate, you can fill the medicine, but never pinch the nose into the mouth, this is easy to fill the trachea, the light cause choking and coughing, the child will be more afraid to take medicine later; serious can also lead to choking. The correct way is to swallow the medicine in the baby and then take out the spoon of feeding, he will have no medicine to vomit. 2, drink with a straw, not too bitter. After your child can drink through a straw, you can let him drink the medicine through a straw. This way the medicine can enter the esophagus directly and only a little of it passes through the tongue, so the child will not feel too bitter.