What medicine is good for children with lung heat and cough?

As children grow up, they will always have problems of one kind or another, among which diseases are very common. Lung heat cough is the disease with the highest incidence rate among children. Many parents will be very worried when their children have this condition, and they wish they could get sick for their children. So what medicine is good for children's lung heat cough?

Coughing, coughing up yellow or white sticky sputum, accompanied by dry mouth, sore throat, constipation, dark urine, fever or wheezing, red tongue, thin yellow or greasy tongue coating, little fluid, slippery or thin pulse.

1. Treatment with Chinese medicine

Treatment should be aimed at clearing lung fire, promoting lung function and relieving asthma, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. The traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions include Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang, Platycodon Decoction, Wei Jing Tang, and Xie Bai San. The ready-made medicines include honey-refined Fritillaria cirrhosa loquat paste, snake gall loquat paste, and children's lung heat, cough and asthma oral liquid.

1. Pear: It is cool in nature, sweet in taste, can clear away heat and resolve phlegm, and is suitable for people with hot cough. After peeling the pears, take out the core, add Sichuan Fritillary Powder, and stew them in water. Eat one pear twice a day.

2. Luo Han Guo: Clears the lungs and relieves cough. It is suitable for people with lung heat cough and wind heat cough. You can use 1 monk fruit and persimmon, boil them in water and drink them.

3. Persimmon: It is cold in nature and can clear away heat, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, so it is suitable for people with hot cough. According to modern pharmacological experiments, persimmons do have expectorant and antitussive effects, and the expectorant effect is stronger than the antitussive effect.

4. Loquat: It is cool in nature, sweet in taste, and can moisten the lungs, reduce phlegm and relieve cough. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" says: "Loquat can cure cough and spitting." It is suitable for people with hot cough and spitting yellow purulent sputum.

5. Figs: can clear away heat, resolve phlegm, and regulate qi. They are suitable for people with wind-heat type cough, phlegm and chest tightness. "Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine" also records the local folk remedies for treating lung heat cough and hoarseness by using figs, decocted in water and mixed with rock sugar.

6. Water chestnuts: can resolve phlegm and clear away heat, and are especially suitable for those with hot cough and spitting of purulent phlegm. You can use fresh water chestnuts each time, wash and peel them, blanch them in boiling water, and eat them raw, once in the morning and once in the evening, for 3 to 5 days.

7. Winter melon: It is cool in nature and can eliminate phlegm and clear away heat. "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan" says: "Winter melon moistens the lungs, eliminates heat and phlegm, and relieves coughs." People who have wind-heat coughs or lung-heat coughs should choose to drink winter melon stewed soup.

Generally speaking, when a child has a lung heat cough, he or she should be taken to the hospital for examination and treatment in time, and some medications should be used to control the condition under the doctor's advice. However, it should be noted that you should not give your child medication indiscriminately. At the same time, you must eat more lung-moistening and cough-relieving foods, drink more water, and let the child rest more.