What are the dietary treatments for relieving cough and reducing phlegm in babies?

When the temperature difference is large, or when autumn turns to winter, children are prone to catching colds or suffering from respiratory diseases. Many parents are reluctant to use medication directly for treatment. After all, children are young, and using medication too early will definitely be bad for their health. So I am very concerned about the method of diet therapy. So, what are the dietary therapy methods for relieving cough and reducing phlegm for babies? Let’s take a closer look below.

1. Water chestnut and lily soup

Ingredients: 30 grams of water chestnuts (water chestnuts), 1 gram of lily, 1 pear, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Preparation and administration: Wash, peel and mash the water chestnuts, wash and chop the pears with skin and remove the cores, wash the lilies, mix the three, add water and boil, then add appropriate amount of rock sugar and cook until cooked and the soup is thick. Serve warm.

Indications and functions: Water chestnuts are sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature. They can clear away heat and promote fluid production, cool blood and detoxify, and resolve phlegm and eliminate accumulation. They contain starch, protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin C and water chestnut. Water chestnut has inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Pears can clear away heat and promote fluid production, moisten dryness and resolve phlegm; lilies can moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. The combination of the three can nourish yin and moisten dryness, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.

Treats cough due to phlegm heat, yellow and thick phlegm, and sore throat. Used for infants with chronic tracheitis and phlegm-heat symptoms.

Note: It is not suitable for people with spleen deficiency, loose stools, and clear sputum. It is not recommended for infants with blood deficiency and weak constitution.

2. Steamed pear with Fritillaria cirrhosa

Ingredients: one snow pear or duck pear, 6 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa, and 20 grams of rock sugar.

Preparation and administration: Cut the pear at the stem, hollow out and remove the core, then grind the Fritillaria cirrhosa into powder. Put it into the pear and use a toothpick to restore and secure the handle. Put rock sugar in a large bowl, add a small amount of water, and steam for half an hour. Eat the steamed pear with the Fritillaria cirrhosa in it.

Indications and functions: Fritillaria is a good medicine for resolving phlegm and relieving cough. When used together with snow pear and rock sugar, it has the effects of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, moistening the lungs and nourishing yin.

Treats chronic cough, excessive sputum, dry throat, shortness of breath and fatigue.

Note: This is a commonly used folk prescription. Infants with long-term cough are mostly suffering from chronic bronchitis. This prescription is mild in nature and suitable for weak children with long-term cough. It is not suitable for patients with external infection. This prescription uses authentic medicinal material Fritillaria cirrhosa for its best effect.

3. Sword Flower Pig Lung Soup

Ingredients: 25-30 grams of sword flower and 1 pig lung.

Preparation and consumption: Wash the pig lungs, squeeze out the foam, cut into pieces, heat up a pan with oil, add ginger and stir-fry, then put into a casserole. Add southern apricots and mulberry bark, cook them into soup, season and drink the soup. Pig lungs can be used as a side dish. Soak the sword flower in water until it is soft, remove the mud and sand, and cook it with the pig lung for 1 to 2 hours.

Drink the soup after seasoning and the rest can be eaten as a side dish.

Indications and functions: Sword flower, also known as the king flower, is sweet and slightly cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, and relieving cough. It is often used to treat pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchitis, cervical lymph node tuberculosis, and mumps. Combined with pig lungs, it can clear away heat and moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.

It is used to treat dry lungs, cough and bad breath in autumn and winter.

The above is an introduction to the dietary therapy methods for relieving cough and reducing phlegm in babies. I hope it will be helpful to parents. It is very common for children to have coughs and excessive phlegm as they grow up. The key is to take appropriate measures to solve the problem. These dietary therapy methods are a very good choice. Once parents master them, they can deal with various problems that may arise in their children in the future.