What are the recipes for children to strengthen their spleen and stomach?

The baby at home always has a poor appetite, and parents may be helpless due to lack of experience. In fact, the solution to this problem is mainly to help the baby strengthen his spleen and stomach. If the baby's spleen and stomach are good, then he will eat more and enjoy his meals. However, the baby's gastrointestinal function has not yet fully developed, so it is very important to choose foods to strengthen the spleen and stomach. What are some recipes for children to strengthen their spleen and stomach?

1. Ginger and sugar drink

Chop 3 grams of fresh ginger, add half a cup of water, boil and remove the residue, add 3 to 5 ml of vinegar and a little sugar (just enough to make it sweet) after cooling, mix well, and let the child drink it once a day. It is also advisable to take it frequently.

2. Clove Milk

Soak two cloves (available at Chinese medicine stores) in a spoonful of boiling water for five minutes to extract the juice. Add milk to the juice and drink it once a day. You can drink it frequently.

3. Multi-grain porridge

Add equal amounts of oatmeal, rice, corn flakes or glutinous rice, corn flour, and coix seeds into water and cook into porridge, which can be given to children often.

4. Quail stewed with mushrooms

Take a pair of quails, remove the internal organs and clean them, add 30 grams of dried mushrooms without stems, add water and stew, you can also add onion, ginger, wine and salt for seasoning, when they are cooked, eat the quails, mushrooms and soup. It can be eaten as a regular dish 1 to 2 times a week.

5. Mushroom and Chicken Soup

Take about 100 grams of breast or leg meat of free-range chicken and chop it into minced meat. Add 50 grams of fresh mushrooms and chop them. Heat up a pan with oil and stir-fry the above two ingredients. Add appropriate amount of chicken soup and boil it. After adding seasonings, add starch and cook it into a thin soup. It can be eaten as a dish frequently.

What kind of porridge should children drink to strengthen their spleen and stomach?

Recommendation 1: Yam and Lotus Seed Porridge

Ingredients: about 50 grams of yam and 20 to 30 grams of lotus seeds.

Method: Take an appropriate amount of fresh yam and lotus seeds to make porridge for your baby every day. Both the lotus seeds and the porridge should be cooked well and eaten together. For children under 1 year old, the yam and lotus seeds should be crushed as much as possible. The dry ones can be ground into powder and then mixed with rice soup to make a paste for feeding.

Efficacy: This porridge can warm the stomach and strengthen the spleen, and is most suitable for children with insufficient spleen yang.

Recommendation 2: Red Bean Porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of rice, 15 grams of red beans, appropriate amount of brown sugar, and a little sugar osmanthus.

Method: Wash the red beans and rice separately. Put red beans into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil and cook until well-cooked, then add rice and cook together. Bring to a boil over high heat, then switch to low heat and cook until thick. Add appropriate amount of brown sugar to the porridge, bring to a boil, pour into a bowl, and sprinkle with a little sugar osmanthus.

Efficacy: Soothes the stomach, nourishes yin, and replenishes blood. This porridge is rosy in color, sweet and refreshing, and appetizing, and is very popular among young children. Red beans are rich in protein and lysine. Lysine is one of the eight essential amino acids for the human body and plays an important role in the brain development of young children.

Recommendation 3: Lotus Leaf and Poria Cocos Porridge

Ingredients: 1 lotus leaf (fresh or dried), 50 grams of Poria cocos, 100 grams of polished rice or millet, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Preparation method: First, boil the lotus leaves and remove the residue. Add Poria cocos and washed glutinous rice or millet into the soup and cook them together into porridge. Add sugar into the pot before serving.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and relieves summer heat, calms the mind and soothes nerves, stops diarrhea and dysentery.

If your child has anorexia, you should pay attention to making adjustments to his or her diet. Generally speaking, children's anorexia may be caused by eating too much sweets, such as fried foods or sweet drinks. At this time, parents should change their children's bad eating habits and give them more suitable food, which can increase their appetite day by day.