What to do if your child has bad breath? What to eat to remove it?

Bad breath in children is often related to poor diet, which can cause stomach fire and indigestion, thus causing bad breath. At this time, you must pay attention to diet adjustment and develop good oral hygiene habits. You can eat some lychee meat cooked porridge, which has the effect of removing stomach fire. You can also drink some cucumber porridge to prevent bad breath caused by excessive liver fire.

1. Cook lychee meat porridge to remove bad breath caused by excessive stomach fire

Ingredients: 10 grams of lychee meat, 50 grams of rice.

practice:

1. Remove the lychee shells and flesh; wash the rice;

2. Put the lychee meat and rice in the pot, add appropriate amount of water and cook porridge

How to eat: Eat with dinner, 3-5 days as a course of treatment.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bad breath is mostly related to fire in the internal organs, such as burning stomach fire, heat in the lungs and stomach, heat in the large intestine, food stagnation and other factors, among which burning stomach fire is the most common. Many people only have bad breath occasionally, and the cause can basically be traced back to stomach heat. According to traditional Chinese medicine, litchi is sweet, sour and warm in nature, and enters the spleen, heart and liver meridians. It has the functions of strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi, nourishing the liver and replenishing blood, regulating qi and relieving pain, nourishing the heart and calming the mind. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that litchi is "mild and non-toxic, and can cure smallpox in children." "Yuzhuo Yaojie" says that it "warms and replenishes the spleen essence, and warms and nourishes the liver blood." Cook it into porridge and eat it to strengthen the spleen and liver, nourish the heart and replenish blood. It is very effective for people with deficiency of both heart and spleen, insomnia, loss of appetite, and palpitations. In addition, rice is mild in nature and sweet in taste, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach. Lychee meat cooked into porridge can produce body fluids and nourish blood.

2. Cucumber porridge treats liver fire and bad breath

Ingredients: 50 grams of cucumber, 100 grams of rice.

Method: Peel and slice the cucumber, cook it with rice into porridge and eat it at will.

Efficacy: Specially used to treat dry tongue and bad breath caused by excessive liver fire or internal dampness.

3. Mint porridge to remove bad breath

Ingredients: 30g fresh mint leaves (15g dried mint), 50g rice

practice:

1. Wash the mint leaves, add appropriate amount of water into the pot and boil, discard the residue and take the juice for later use;

2. Wash the rice, add appropriate amount of water and cook until the rice is cooked;

3. Add the mint leaf juice in step 1 into the porridge, boil and serve.

Dosage: Several times a day.

Why does mint porridge remove bad breath?

Mint is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Its stems and leaves are used as medicine. It is pungent, cool, and fragrant. It enters the lung and liver meridians and has the effects of dispersing wind-heat, clearing away heat and relieving exterior symptoms, dispelling wind and swelling, and relieving sore throat and pain. It is often used for wind-heat colds, wind-heat headaches, red and painful eyes, sore throat, and measles rash. The stems and leaves can be boiled into a decoction for fumigation and washing, which can treat various skin eczema and lacquer rash. Dosage and administration: 3~6 grams, decocted in water and taken orally. Its leaves are good at inducing sweat, while its stems are good at regulating qi.

4. Raw reed root porridge to remove bad breath

Ingredients: 30g reed root, 50g rice

Preparation method: Wash the reed roots and put them into a pot. Add appropriate amount of water and cook over high heat for 15 minutes. Remove the residue and keep the juice. Add rice and cook into porridge. Take one dose per day, preferably on an empty stomach every morning. It will take about 5 doses to see the effect.

Efficacy: Specially used to treat bad breath caused by dry tongue or swollen gums.