Pediatric Fall Recipes to Clear Heat and Dispel Dryness

Autumn health care focus: nourishing yin and moistening the lungs Autumn from the beginning of the lunar calendar in July, is from hot to cool and then from cool to cold transitional season. The first 45 days, for the “Autumn”, “heat”, “White Dew” three seasons, when the summer heat is not yet eliminated, the autumn sun like fire, but the morning and evening of the autumn cool; after 45 days, for the “Autumn Equinox”, “cold dew”, “frost” 3 seasons, at this time the summer heat has been eliminated, the autumn cool gradually aggravated and turned cold. “Autumn dryness” for the main climate characteristics of autumn, and the changes in nature from “growth” to “collection”. Autumn dry air to the mid-autumn as the boundary, and there are “warm dry” and “cool dry” points. Such as the beginning of autumn, sunny and rainless, autumn sun is violent, is warm and dry nature; late autumn cool, the west wind kill, is cool and dry nature. But no matter warm dry, cool dry, dry skin, lack of body fluids as its main feature. Autumn diet should reduce pungent and increase acid, in order to nourish liver qi, so as not to “liver qi against the lungs”. Because of the dryness of autumn, easy to have a cough with little phlegm, dry throat discomfort, dry nose and dry mouth, hot hands and feet, etc., so to nourish the yin and moisten the lungs, to drink more water and the appropriate food and sesame (sesame) in order to moisten its dryness, prohibit cold drinks and wear cold wet underwear. Autumn ingredients and herbs should be avoided pediatric health should follow the seasonal shift to astringent, lowering the gas, moistening the dryness, suppressing the lungs to support the liver, increase acid and reduce the pungent. Autumn to eat less pungent onion, ginger, garlic, chili, eat more sour fruits and vegetables, drink more boiled water, soy milk, fruit juice. Fresh fruits and vegetables with dry laxative function and rich in water, eat more can make up fluid. Pears, persimmons, sugar cane, loquat, carrots and lotus root are suitable fruits and vegetables in fall. Pediatric medicinal formula 1, pulse drink: American ginseng 5 grams, 15 grams of maitake, 5 grams of schizandra, add the right amount of water decoction, can be used as a tea, with moistening the lungs, replenish the effect of qi and yin deficiency. 2, ginseng drink: bamboo, ginseng, lily each 30 grams, wash and add the right amount of water to decoct into soup, take the juice and rock sugar to the right amount of service. 3, rock sugar Chuanbei pear: Chuanbei mother of 3 grams, 9 grams of rock sugar, stuffed into a large pear has been removed from the seeds and nuclei, tied, steamed over water, eat 2 times a day, half each time, served 2-3 days. Can cure early fall warm dry cough, thirst and dry throat. 4, lotus root tea: lotus root powder hot water and drink, suitable for diarrhea after gastrointestinal discomfort, have fever rectification function. 5, cinnamon black tea: ordinary black tea bags and a little cinnamon brewed into tea to drink. Suitable for yin deficiency easy to sweat, sleep poor children. 6, red and green bean soup: green beans and red beans with a ratio of 1:1 cooked into soup, you can also add a little Coix Seed, can be turned into a hot and dry and not too cold drink in early fall.