As a new mother, you always worry about your baby’s food, clothing, housing and transportation, and even more if your baby is sick. Luckily, I have a Chinese doctor with me. Last Thursday morning, I took my baby to get the chicken pox vaccine, and in the afternoon, I had a slight runny nose, I don’t know if it was due to the cold from the air conditioning the night before, or a reaction to the vaccine. Rub 2 drops of ginger juice in my hands and massage my baby’s head and neck repeatedly, especially the Fengchi, Fengfu, Dazhi, and bilateral Lung Yu points. By the evening, the symptoms were largely relieved. After sleeping on Friday, the baby woke up in the morning with clear runny nose and nasal congestion again. Rubbed with ginger juice twice more. The symptoms were basically relieved again by the evening. On Saturday, I sneezed frequently, and the symptoms of clear runny nose and nasal congestion worsened, adding a cough without phlegm. He was in good spirits and in general, and liked to play and run around, and had no fever. In the afternoon, I gave the baby a bath with herbs and it was better. But when it came to sleep at night, the problem came when the baby was lying down with severe nasal congestion and woke up a few minutes after falling asleep, or woke up coughing and choking with snot flowing backwards into the throat. A friend’s tip is to boil water with white onion and cover the nose with a hot towel while it is still hot, which can relieve nasal congestion. The baby was unable to implement it because he was crying. Throughout the night to constantly hold up to sleep. It made me and my husband so tired. This situation has never occurred before. On Sunday, when I think back, the baby was better every day during the day and worse at night, apart from the change of the condition itself, it may be related to the living. From the beginning of the baby’s symptoms, he did not sleep with the air conditioner on at night, but slept with the windows and doors open a little. It so happened that the typhoon swept through in the last two days, and the cool breeze at night was more pleasant than the air conditioner. That’s why the symptoms worsen every night and morning. This day, the baby’s symptoms became more obvious, sneezing, nasal runny nose, increased saliva, coughing, no appetite, and no desire to drink water. I finally can no longer calm down with the mental state as the first consideration indicator. When you are not calm, people always like to project, so you start to blame your husband for not learning pediatrics well. In fact, this is exactly what I want to say to myself. My husband reassured me that it takes a process for a cold to set in. The baby’s fingerprints and tongue were carefully looked at. The baby’s fingerprints were thin and green, and the tongue was light and watery. Combining the above symptoms with the fact that the baby was sweating all the time, not feverish, afraid of the wind, and sneezing when he saw the wind, I prescribed Gui Zhi Tang for internal use plus external washing. Internal prescription: Gui Zhi 10g, Bai Shao 10g, Ginger 10g, 2 dates (broken), Roasted Licorice 5g. External cleansing formula: Gui Zhi 50g Bai Shao 50g Ginger 50g Da Zao 12 (break open) Roasted Licorice 30g . The internal formula drank 20ml at 5pm, the infusion of medicine and hard and painful, by 8pm, the baby’s spirit improved significantly and began to wander around the house playing on their own. 20ml again at 9pm, basically the baby himself holding the bowl and drank it up. I don’t know if the taste is not bad, or if he feels comfortable. At 9:30 bedtime, the baby was still stuffy at first and couldn’t sleep, so he was picked up 3 times within an hour, but after that he slept peacefully although he had a nasal sound. Take care to shelter your baby from the wind during the night and change the sweat-wet pillow and pillowcase in time. By 5:00 a.m., the baby was breathing as smoothly as when he was not sick, so I was finally relieved. This Monday, except for occasional runny nose, the baby was as usual, full of energy and appetite, and sleeping well. The prescription is accurate and effective, and I am not deceived by the ancients. My personal philosophy on the prevention and treatment of pediatric diseases 1, when sick, first look at the mental state, if the baby is in good spirits, it proves that the degree of the disease is not serious, or the baby’s own positive energy can still cope. A convenient indicator is the “smile principle”, that is, if the baby is still very smiley, there is no need to worry too much. 2, for external diseases, pay attention to give the evil a way out, choose sweating, sneezing, phlegm and other methods, try to “open the door and chase the enemy”, do not “close the door and fight the dog”, the evil left in the baby. 3, in the choice of means, can external (treatment) not internal (serving), can Chinese (medicine) not Western (medicine). Try to use pediatric massage, external washing, compressing the umbilical cord, compressing the heart of the foot and other external treatment methods, baby pain is small, but also to avoid the metabolism of drugs through the tender liver and kidneys. Ineffective before taking internal herbal tonics, try to avoid excessive medical treatment and antibiotic abuse. 4, trust in the baby’s own ability, all means are to help the baby’s own righteousness to drive away evil and cure the disease, do not knock down the righteousness. Appropriate treatment means, can make the baby every time through the disease, to increase their own ability to resist disease. 5, pay attention to daily living care and physical conditioning, usually take the baby more outdoor activities, plus physical food therapy and health care methods, such as pediatric chiropractic, etc., to strengthen the body.