When children have a cold, they often have symptoms such as stuffy and runny nose, sneezing and coughing, throat discomfort or pain, and parents are very anxious. The following are some common family dietary treatments.
1. Wind-cold cold.
The manifestation is mild fever, severe chill, no sweat, stuffy nose and runny nose, sneezing and coughing, may complain of pain in the limbs, headache. Tongue coating thin white, pulse floating tight.
Treatment should be to disperse wind and cold, to generate sweat and relieve muscles
(1) 6 grams of ginger, 5 grams of sage leaves, steeped in boiling water, add appropriate amount of brown sugar and drink as tea.
(2) 6 grams of ginger, 10 grams of white onion, 50 grams of round-grained rice, add water to make a congee, and finish it in one day.
(3) Ginger porridge: 6 grams of ginger, 2 jujubes, 100 grams of glutinous rice or japonica rice.
(4) Perilla leaf tea: 15 grams of perilla leaf and brown sugar. Early stage of cold and wind chill
(5) White onion porridge: 50 grams of round-grained rice, white onion and sugar in appropriate amounts
2. Wind-heat cold.
The manifestations are heavy fever, light chills, slight sweating, headache, stuffy nose with thick snot or yellow snot, cough, red throat, or red eyes with tears, irritable heat and thirst. The tongue is red and less fluid, with thin yellow tongue coating and floating pulse.
Treatment to clear heat and relieve symptoms.
(1) 5 grams each of mulberry leaf and chrysanthemum, 3 grams of peppermint, steeped in boiling water, add appropriate amount of sugar to drink as tea.
(2) reed root tea: 100 grams of reed root, 200 grams of fresh radish, 7 white onions, 7 green olives, treatment of fever and sore throat, cough and phlegm, thirst and dry tongue
(3) big green leaf tea: big green leaf 15 grams. Seasonal colds, fever and sore throat, etc.
(4) Rice with rehmannia: 200 grams of fresh rehmannia, 500 grams of round-grained rice. Stomach heat, lung heat disease evidence and thirst for fluid injury.
3.Summer cold: to dispel summer heat and relieve symptoms
(1) half a fresh lotus leaf, chopped decoction, after cooling, add an appropriate amount of fresh watermelon juice to the water and substitute tea.
(2) lotus leaf winter melon soup: a fresh lotus leaf, fresh winter melon 500 grams, the appropriate amount of salt.
4, cough phlegm
(1) 10 grams of almonds, 30 grams of mung beans, crushed and decocted in water, and add sugar to drink as tea
(2) stir-fried bamboo shoots: 250 grams of bamboo shoots, onion, ginger, salt, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, vegetable oil in appropriate amounts
(3) Ginger and sugar tea: 30 grams of ginger, 20 grams of brown sugar and 20 grams of orris. Treatment of cough with phlegm, thin and white phlegm, much easier to cough up, accompanied by limb fear of cold, pale face, etc.
5. Summer dampness invasion.
Manifestations include fever that does not subside, poor sweating, headache, lethargy, generalized evil, stuffy and runny nose, and cough. Red tongue tip, white and greasy tongue coating, pulse count
(1) 10 grams of sophora leaves, 5 grams of semen, decocted in water, remove the residue, add 15 grams of coix seeds in soup instead of water, boil together into a paste, add brown sugar in appropriate amount.
(2) loofah pork soup: 250 grams of loofah, 200 grams of lean pork, salt to taste.
(3) lotus leaf and winter melon soup: a quick fresh lotus leaf, 500 grams of fresh winter melon, salt.
6.Dry evil invasion
(1) 30 grams of rutabaga, 15 grams of chrysanthemum with water decoction.
(2) five juice drink:: pear juice, water chestnut juice, fresh reed root juice, maitake juice, root juice (cane syrup) in appropriate amounts.
(3) Sugar cane porridge: sugar cane juice, round-grained rice
Note: Chinese medicine food therapy must be administered in accordance with the evidence. If you cannot identify the symptoms and signs of your child, please consult a Chinese medicine practitioner before administering food therapy.