Is it good to drink garlic water when children have a cough?

It is inevitable that children will get sick during the process of growing up, especially when we find that children have coughs. This is also a situation that many parents are particularly worried about. Sometimes they don’t know what to do when facing their children’s coughs. In fact, there is no need to worry too much when children have coughs. As long as parents pay attention to it and give their children active treatment, there will generally be no problem. Is it good for children to drink garlic water when they cough?

Garlic water is very effective in treating coughs caused by cold and kidney deficiency. To cook garlic water, take 2 to 4 cloves of fresh garlic, smash them and put them in a bowl, add 1 piece of rock sugar and half a small bowl of water, cover the pot with a lid, bring to a boil, then steam on low heat for 14 to 16 minutes, let it cool and drink it 2 to 3 times a day. But if the cough is caused by wind-heat, do not take it.

Tuina therapy for children's cough can treat children's cough. The specific operation is as follows:

1. Use your thumb to push the spleen meridian and lung meridian 100 times each.

2. Use the ribbed surface of your thumb to do circular massage on the inner Bagua area of ​​the child's palm, for 1 minute on each hand.

3. Use your middle finger to massage the Tiantu and Tanzhong points in a clockwise direction for 2 minutes each.

4. Use your fingers to press and rub the lung points, cough and asthma points, and chest respiratory area, each point for 2 minutes.

5. Use your thumb to push the thenar area 100 times.

Repeat the above method twice each time, twice a day. Avoid eating cold food. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "a cold body and cold drinks can damage the lungs", which means that once the body is exposed to cold, drinking cold foods can damage the lungs. Coughing is mostly caused by lung diseases that lead to lung qi stagnation and upward flow. If the food is still too cold at this time, it will easily cause blockage of lung qi, aggravating the symptoms and not healing over time. Whether it is a child or an adult, coughing is often accompanied by phlegm, and the amount of phlegm is related to the spleen. The spleen is the foundation of acquired constitution and is responsible for the digestion and absorption of food in the human body. If you eat too much cold food, it will damage your spleen and stomach, causing the spleen's function to decline and moisture to accumulate and produce phlegm.

The above is about whether children should drink garlic water when they have a cough. When a child has a cough, we must find out the cause and type of the child’s cough, and then give the child targeted treatment. In addition, we must also pay attention to conditioning in the diet. If the child’s cough is severe, we must go to the hospital with the child for examination and treatment, and use medication under the guidance of a doctor.