What are the medicines for clearing heat and purging fire in children?

I believe that everyone has some common household medicines in their lives, because these small family medicine boxes can play an emergency role when a family member suddenly falls ill, and they can also be very effective for some minor illnesses.

1. Cough caused by wind and cold: The child is not thirsty, has no red throat, no sore throat, has clear runny nose, has a thin white tongue coating, is afraid of cold, and has a pale or bluish face. You can choose Xiaoqinglong mixture or Xingsu cough syrup.

2. Wind-heat cough: often accompanied by red and sore throat, runny yellow nose, yellow tongue coating, red tongue tip, red lips, thirst, and some children even have dry stools. You can choose Qingxuan cough-relieving granules. If the cough is not severe, you can choose Erganqing, Xiaoer Ganmao Syrup, or Xiaoer Chiqiao Qingre Granules.

3. Cough due to phlegm and heat: The phlegm caused by cough is relatively thick and yellow in color, and the tongue is red with thick yellow fur. In this case, Jinzhen Oral Liquid, Feire Kechuan Oral Liquid, Xiaoer Qingre Lifei Oral Liquid, and Feili Ke are often the choices.

4. Cough with phlegm and dampness: The phlegm that children cough up is often white and sticky, and the tongue coating is white and greasy, and some even have gray tongue coating. Children with phlegm-damp constitution tend to sweat a lot, have wet palms, and have loosely formed stools. You can choose Tangerine Peel Oral Liquid for Relieving Cough, Tangerine Peel Cough Granules, and Children's Lung Cough Granules. The main ingredient of Bairui Granules is expectorant, so it is also an option.

Note: If you have a phlegm-damp cough (with white sticky phlegm), do not take cough suppressants with heat-clearing properties. Not only will it not help the symptoms, it may also have the opposite effect.

5. Cough due to phlegm and food: The baby has dry stool, thick tongue coating, bad breath, and coughs with phlegm, especially coughing before going to bed and coughing at night when lying down. The baby basically does not cough during the day, and the baby has a good appetite and hot palms. Such babies may have cough caused by phlegm and food, because food accumulates and turns into phlegm. Some children need to drink milk and eat before going to bed. For such babies, we usually choose pediatric anti-inflammatory and cough-relieving oral liquid.

6. Yin deficiency cough: coughing for a long time, without much phlegm, dry mouth, thirst, and dry stool. You can choose honey-refined Chuanbei loquat paste, Yin-nourishing and lung-clearing oral liquid, and Sophora japonica granules.

7. Qi deficiency cough: The baby coughs for a long time, the cough is weak, and there is a small amount of sputum. This kind of Qi deficiency cough often occurs in the late stages of bronchitis, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia. You can choose Liujunzi Pills and Xiaoer Feike Granules.

There is another type of cough called upper airway cough syndrome in Western medicine, which is mainly caused by symptoms in the nasopharynx. This kind of cough is more common in autumn because it is drier, so children are prone to nosebleeds, dry stools, dry lips, constant throat clearing, and coughing without sputum. The cough is mainly caused by itchy throat and discomfort in the throat. Such babies are suitable for using throat granules, children's throat clearing and antipyretic oral liquid, Pueraria lobata oral liquid, and Scutellaria baicalensis oral liquid to relieve the throat. If the coughing occurs more frequently, you can add some lung cough.