Can children drink Astragalus?

Astragalus has the effect of curing diseases and nourishing the body when eaten by adults, but it is used to stew soup, and people like to use it as medicine or as a medicinal diet. In short, no matter how to eat Astragalus, various ways of eating can reflect the efficacy of Astragalus. However, many people eat Astragalus, but children rarely eat it. However, many people still think that Astragalus is good, so they often give it to children. So, can children drink Astragalus?

Astragalus is sweet and warm, and can nourish the spleen and lungs. It is suitable for people with weak lung and spleen qi. Even children can drink water soaked with Astragalus if they have weak lung and spleen qi. Children with weak lung and spleen qi are often prone to catching colds, have poor appetite, sweat a lot, and have loose stools.

Guidance:

Astragalus is warm in nature and is not suitable for all children. It is best to go to the Chinese medicine department of a hospital and see a doctor for diagnosis before taking it. The dosage should be appropriate and not too much.

The dangers of taking too much Astragalus in children

1. Promote pseudo-precocious puberty in children. If children are given supplements and medicines frequently, they may develop precocious puberty even if they are still school-age children or even infants under one year old. This kind of precocious puberty is caused by parents, so it is called pseudo-precocious puberty. Its characteristics are thickening of the boy's penis, sudden enlargement of the girl's breasts or leucorrhea-like discharge from the vagina and growth of pubic hair. This completely damages the child's physical and mental health and is not conducive to the child's normal growth and development.

2. Aggravate existing symptoms. If you take tonic medicine that is incompatible with your constitution, it will not only be unhelpful, but may also aggravate your symptoms. If a person with yang deficiency takes yin-nourishing drugs, his yang deficiency will become worse; if a person with yin deficiency takes yang-enhancing drugs, his yin will become more deficient; if a person who often suffers from gastrointestinal bloating takes qi-tonifying drugs such as astragalus, his symptoms will become more severe.

3. Endocrine disorders. Frequent and indiscriminate use of tonic medicines can also cause endocrine disorders, leading to precocious puberty, decreased immunity, and decreased intelligence.

4. Other symptoms. Taking tonic medicine without authorization, especially those with warm properties, can often cause nosebleeds, gingival bleeding, thirst, constipation, etc. From the above, it can be seen that children should not be supplemented randomly. Even if children are "weak", it is spleen deficiency, while adults and the elderly are mostly kidney deficiency, so children cannot take adult tonics.

It depends on the situation. Children can eat it, but children's bodies still love to laugh, so don't give them too much. If you give them too much astragalus, it will cause many adverse effects on the body. Children have been very healthy when they were young, so there is no need to give them astragalus to nourish their bodies when they don't need it.