What medicine should children take for cough and phlegm?

Children have weaker constitutions and are prone to getting sick and catching colds frequently, which affects their health. Especially coughing. Many children are prone to coughing as long as they catch a cold. There is also phlegm stuck in the throat, which cannot be spit out and is very uncomfortable. Therefore, they need external help, such as some medicated food, which is very effective in relieving cough and reducing phlegm, and has no side effects.

1. Tofu candy relieves cough, phlegm and asthma

500 grams of tofu, 100 grams each of brown sugar and white sugar. Dig a hole in the tofu, add red and white sugar, put it in a bowl and cook for 30 minutes; eat it all at once, take 4 times in a row; it can clear away heat, promote salivation, moisturize dryness, and treat cough, phlegm and asthma.

2. Corn silk and orange peel can treat cough

Appropriate amounts of corn silk and orange peel. Add water and boil together, take twice a day; it can relieve cough and reduce phlegm, treat wind-cold cough and excessive phlegm.

3. Peanut and Adenophora Soup for Cough and Less Phlegm

25 grams each of peanuts, ginkgo nuts, lilies, and northern adenophora, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Decoction in water to extract juice, add rock sugar, take 1 dose daily; it moistens the lungs and resolves phlegm, treats chronic cough with little phlegm, shortness of breath and dry throat.

4. Radish and pig lung cough soup

1 radish, 1 pig lung, 15 grams of almonds. Add water and cook for 1 hour, eat the meat and drink the soup; it can clear away heat and resolve phlegm, relieve cough and asthma, and treat long-term cough, excessive phlegm and shortness of breath.

5. Stewed pears with rock sugar to reduce phlegm and relieve cough

Peel the fresh pears, split them open and remove the cores. Add appropriate amount of rock sugar and steam them in a pot until soft.

6. Huangjing Rock Sugar to Relieve Cough and Asthma

30 grams of Polygonatum sibiricum (Chinese herbal medicine) and 50 grams of crystal sugar. Wash the Polygonatum odoratum, soak it with cold water, put it in a casserole, add rock sugar and appropriate amount of water, put the pot on the stove, boil it with high heat, then simmer it with low heat until the Polygonatum odoratum is cooked, twice a day.