What to do if your child has a lot of heat

Parents don't need to worry too much if their children have a lot of heat. As long as they receive a series of treatments, the symptoms in their bodies can gradually improve. However, diet therapy can still play a very important role in alleviating such symptoms, including lotus seeds and lilies. You can cook lotus seed and lily porridge for them to drink, which is easy to absorb.

Diet therapy is still quite important, such as mung beans, cucumbers, celery, purslane, zucchini, watermelon, winter melon, bitter melon, red beans, tomatoes, black plums, lotus leaves, eggplants, fresh lotus roots, lilies, loofahs, lotus roots, etc.

To remove dampness and heat, the diet must be light. It is best not to think about chili peppers, dog meat, beef, mutton, wine, etc.; eat less sweet, warm and greasy foods such as leek, ginger, pepper, Sichuan pepper, as well as spicy and warm foods that help heat such as hot pot, frying, and barbecue; instead, eat sweet, cold, or sweet and neutral foods such as red bean, mung bean, celery, cucumber, coix seed, lotus seed, poria, duck meat, crucian carp, winter melon, bitter melon, and lotus root.

I would like to recommend two good food products.

Mung bean lotus root: Peel 1 section of thick and fat lotus root, rinse and set aside. Soak 50 grams of mung beans in clean water, take them out, put them into the holes of the lotus root, put them in a pot, add clean water and stew until cooked, then add salt and eat. It can clear away heat, detoxify, improve eyesight and quench thirst.

Loach stewed with tofu: Remove the gills and internal organs of 500 grams of loach, rinse it clean, put it in a pot, add water, cook until half-cooked, then add 250 grams of tofu and an appropriate amount of salt, stew until cooked through. It can clear away dampness and heat.

Relatively speaking, it is more troublesome to use traditional Chinese medicine to treat dampness and heat because dampness and heat are entangled and difficult to separate. If you simply remove dampness, it will easily cause heat; if you simply clear heat, dampness will easily remain. Therefore, when the impact of damp-heat constitution is too great, you should ask a Chinese medicine practitioner to prescribe medicine. Generally speaking, we often use Sanren Decoction, which contains almond, talc, white tongcao, white cardamom, bamboo leaf, magnolia bark, raw coix seed and pinellia tuber as the basic prescription for addition and subtraction treatment.

[Drug explanation] The traditional Chinese medicine prescription Longdan Xiegan Decoction contains drugs such as gentian, scutellaria, gardenia, oriental Chinese medicine, akebia, plantain seed, radix rehmanniae, angelica, bupleurum, and licorice. In the formula, gentian herb can purge the excess fire in the liver and gallbladder, and clear the dampness and heat in the lower burner, so it is the main medicine. Scutellaria baicalensis and Gardenia jasminoides are bitter and cold, and have the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, and conducting heat downward, and are used as assistant drugs. Alisma, Akebia and Plantago seed can clear away heat and remove dampness, and can eliminate damp heat through urination. Shengdi and angelica have the function of nourishing yin and blood. Bupleurum can soothe the liver, relieve depression and guide the meridians. Licorice harmonizes all medicines.