What foods are good for children with liver fire?

If a child has excessive liver fire, parents should pay attention to scientific diet and conditioning methods. For example, giving the child some lotus seed and lily soup, or boiling some pear and white fungus soup for the child to drink, can nourish yin and moisten the lungs, and reduce fire.

1. Lotus seed and lily soup

Ingredients: 15 grams of lotus seeds, 15 grams of dried lily, 1 egg, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Preparation method: First remove the core of the lotus seeds, then put them together with lilies in a casserole, add water, and simmer until the lotus seeds are tender. Then add eggs and sugar, and wait until the eggs are cooked before eating.

Efficacy: Lily is mild and slightly cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. It is effective for residual heat after fever, sore throat, irritability and thirst. Cooking a bowl of lily bulb soup for your baby has the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs, and calming the mind.

2. Pear and Tremella Soup

Ingredients: 1 snow pear, 30 grams of water-soaked white fungus, 5 grams of Fritillaria, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Preparation: First, soak the white fungus, remove the roots, remove impurities, wash it clean, and tear it into small pieces; peel and seed the pear; then put the white fungus slices, pear pieces, Fritillaria, and sugar in a stewing dish and steam it for 30-40 minutes before eating.

Efficacy: Snow pear is sweet and cold in nature. It has the effects of nourishing yin and clearing the lungs, eliminating phlegm and reducing fire. In addition, snow pear also contains malic acid, citric acid, vitamins B1, B2, C, carotene, etc., which help to enhance the baby's immunity.

3. Honeysuckle tea

Ingredients: 10 grams of honeysuckle, 10 grams of raw licorice.

Method: Make honeysuckle tea and drink it.

Efficacy: Honeysuckle is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and flat in nature. It has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. In summer, babies drinking honeysuckle tea can prevent heatstroke and cool down, clear away heat and detoxify, reduce fire and fever, nourish yin and moisten the lungs.

4. Mung bean and lily drink

Ingredients: 1 handful of mung beans, appropriate amount of lily, 5-6 pieces of rock sugar.

Method: Wash the mung beans and lilies and put them into a pressure cooker. Add appropriate amount of water. Cook over high heat for 5 minutes, then turn to the lowest heat and simmer for 30 minutes. After the pressure is naturally released, add rock sugar and open the lid to cook for 5 minutes.

Efficacy: Mung bean is cool in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, quenching thirst and relieving heat, and is a diuretic and moisturizing food. It is the first choice food for reducing heat in babies in summer. Mung beans are rich in inorganic salts and vitamins. Drinking mung bean soup as a drink in a high temperature environment can replenish lost nutrients in time to achieve the therapeutic effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat.