How does traditional Chinese medicine treat cough in children?

In fact, it is very common to see children coughing and catching colds. Everyone gets sick sometimes, but coughing has both advantages and disadvantages for children. The advantage is that coughing can expel the dirt they breathe in, but the disadvantage is that the child's condition will get worse, their body will be affected, and sometimes it will affect the health of other organs in the body. So what methods does traditional Chinese medicine have for treating children’s cough?

Traditional Chinese medicine also believes that the lungs and large intestine are exterior and interior to each other, and the function of the six internal organs is to communicate. The stagnation of internal organ qi often leads to qi stagnation and obstruction, and the upward flow of lung qi causes coughing. Therefore, choosing diet therapy can achieve the purpose of regulating the spleen, stomach, lungs, and large intestine to treat cough. Below I will introduce two ingredients to you as dietary remedies for children's cough.

1. Lily

According to traditional Chinese medicine, lily is sweet, slightly cold in nature, and enters the lung and heart meridians. It has the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, clearing the heart and calming the mind. It is mainly used to treat dry-heat cough and chronic cough caused by lung yin deficiency, blood in sputum and residual heat, restlessness, palpitations, insomnia and nightmares. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that lily can warm the lungs and relieve cough. For those with heat in the lungs, stuffy cough, take 4 liang of fresh lily, add honey and steam it to drink, and hold a piece of lily in your mouth and swallow the saliva from time to time. It has the effect of moistening the intestines, promoting bowel movements, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs. There is another way to eat lily: lily and almond porridge.

Lily and Almond Porridge

50 grams of lily, 10 grams of almonds, 50 grams of polished rice, and appropriate amount of white sugar. Peel and remove the almonds, smash them, and cook them with fresh lily and polished rice into porridge. Add appropriate amount of white sugar and eat warm. It can cure weakness, dry cough and tuberculosis. Lily glutinous rice porridge. Wash the lilies and cook them with half-cooked glutinous rice until they are mushy. Add honey and eat. It has a good therapeutic effect on children's cough.

2. Ginkgo

Ginkgo also has a good cough-relieving effect. According to Chinese medicine, ginkgo tastes sweet, bitter, and astringent, is neutral in nature, and has a low toxicity. Enters the lung and kidney meridians. It has the functions of astringing the lungs and relieving asthma, stopping leukorrhea and reducing urination. It is mainly used to treat asthma, phlegm and cough, etc. It has a certain therapeutic effect on children's cough.

Traditional Chinese medicine mainly puts prevention and diet therapy first, unlike Western medicine, which mainly uses instruments to treat diseases. Therefore, the traditional Chinese medicine method of treating children's cough is mainly prevention first and then diet therapy as a supplement. In addition, children's resistance is not very good when they are young, so we should focus on adding nutrition to children to ensure that they get sick less often.