How can children strengthen their spleen and stomach?

Many babies will suffer from severe loss of appetite in the summer. When they have loss of appetite, the baby will become thinner and thinner, and their body resistance will become lower and lower. This has a great impact on the baby himself and makes him prone to many diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the spleen and stomach in time. So, how should children strengthen their spleen and stomach? Let’s take a brief look at it!

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.

The above foods are all very good for strengthening the spleen and stomach. Mothers can make more of them for their children. They are also rich in nutritional value and have many benefits for babies. If you eat them regularly, your baby’s appetite will become better and better. The preparation method is also very simple, so you can try it more often.