There are indications that children can take the soup of boiled perilla leaves, but the specific medication should follow the doctor’s instructions, parents should not give children unauthorized medication.
Perilla leaf is a traditional Chinese medicine made from the leaves or shoots and leaves of perilla and wild perilla plants of the genus Perilla of the family Labiatae, and its medicinal effects include dispersing cold and relieving the epidermis, promoting the flow of qi and resolving phlegm, relieving fish and crab poison, and tranquilizing the fetus.
This herb is pungent in taste, warm in nature, and belongs to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It is suitable for coughing and phlegm, nausea and vomiting, chest and epigastric distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea, wind-cold epithelial syndrome, fetal qi disharmony, pregnancy dyspepsia (in early pregnancy, there is heavy nausea and vomiting, dizziness and anorexia, or even vomiting after eating), and fish and crab poisoning.
The herb can be decocted and taken internally, and it should be noted that perilla leaves should be used with caution in people with yin deficiency, qi deficiency and warm diseases. Because children do not belong to the contraindications, so there are indications that children can take perilla leaf soup.
The specific use of medication should be carried out under the guidance of a specialist, not unauthorized use of medication, so as not to produce adverse effects of the medicine is not the right evidence.