Nine soup and food therapies for common childhood diseases

1. Relieve cough and asthma: Walnut, ginkgo and pig lung soup

Living in densely populated cities with poor air quality, children often suffer from wheezing and coughing. For some long-term coughs and bronchial asthma, you may wish to use more walnut meat, almonds, ginkgo and other ingredients to make pig lung soup for conditioning.

Ingredients:

1 liang of walnut meat, 5 qian of sweet almonds, 15 ginkgo nuts (core removed), 4 figs, 2 slices of ginger, half a pig lung, and 6 liang of lean meat.

practice:

After cleaning and cutting the pig lungs, drain and fry with a little oil; put all the ingredients into a pot, add water and boil for about 2 hours, then you can eat it with the soup.

Tips:

This soup has the effect of warming the lungs and kidneys, relieving cough and asthma, and is suitable for people of all ages. However, the dosage of ginkgo nuts should not be too large. Usually, one ginkgo nut is allowed for one year old, two ginkgo nut is allowed for two years old... Adults can eat up to 15 ginkgo nuts a day, but they must remove the cores before using them.

2. ADHD treatment - Yuzhu Yizhi Decoction

After children with ADHD enter puberty, their self-control ability will be enhanced and symptoms such as inattention will improve, but it is rare for the symptoms to disappear completely. In daily life, you may wish to use more brain-boosting and intelligence-enhancing ingredients for conditioning, which can reduce impulsive, willful and other destructive behaviors.

Yuzhu Yizhi Decoction can improve intelligence, strengthen the heart, and regulate yin and yang. It is very beneficial for children with ADHD who show signs of distraction, dull complexion, restless movements, forgetfulness, and poor attention.

Ingredients:

5 qian of Polygonatum odoratum, 3 qian of longan pulp, 3 qian of wolfberry, 4 to 6 red dates (pitted).

practice:

Wash the ingredients, boil them in 4 bowls of water for half an hour until they become 2 bowls and then drink.

Tips:

If you are making homemade soup, you can add quail and cook it together. Quail is known as "animal ginseng". It can nourish the five internal organs and has a sweet and mild nature. It can be taken by people of all physical conditions. If the whole family is drinking, double the amount.

3. Hand, foot and mouth disease 1 - mung bean, coix seed and red bean soup

Hot weather is the peak season for hand, foot and mouth disease, and children under five are more susceptible to the disease. The scary thing about this disease is that it is prone to complications of other inflammations, such as myocarditis, viral encephalitis, paralysis, etc.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hand, foot and mouth disease is mostly caused by warm heat and dampness. According to the nature of the virus, the medication is mostly aimed at clearing away heat and toxins, cooling blood and clearing the heart, and promoting dampness. As a parent, you may want to prepare more soups that have the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, and detoxifying to enhance your child’s immunity.

Mung bean is a very good health food. Its skin can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and the flesh can detoxify. It has the function of detoxifying small amounts of pesticide poisons, heavy metal poisons, mushroom poisons, and plant toxins. Therefore, in the summer, you might as well use more mung bean soup as a regular diet therapy. This soup is also suitable for the whole family, young and old.

Ingredients:

1 liang each of mung bean, coix seed, and red bean, 1 piece of tangerine peel, and appropriate amount of sugar.

practice:

Soak and wash the ingredients, add water and boil for about 1 hour, add sugar, and boil for a while before serving.

Tips:

This soup requires sugar. At the same time, mung beans should not be cooked with iron utensils and should be cooked in a clay pot. For children with weak bodies, in addition to drinking more of this soup, they should also avoid going to crowded places with turbid air, and pay special attention to personal hygiene.

4. Hand, foot and mouth disease 2 - Pseudostellaria chinensis, lentils and coix seed soup

Another dietary option for the prevention and treatment of hand, foot and mouth disease is Pseudostellaria chinensis, lentils and coix seed soup.

Ingredients:

1 liang of lentils and raw coix seeds, 2 qian of pseudoginseng, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

practice:

Soak and wash the ingredients, boil 5 bowls of water for 1 hour until it becomes 2 bowls, add in rock sugar and cook until dissolved.

Tips:

Pseudostellaria baicalensis does not belong to the Ginseng family, but to the Caryophyllaceae family. It has the effects of ginseng and Codonopsis pilosula, but its "power" is slightly weaker. It is also called "baby ginseng", so it is also suitable for children.

5. Coughing - Steamed onion water

When you have a cold, coughing is the most painful thing. The paroxysmal coughing causes pain in the diaphragm. A friend of mine even broke his ribs due to severe coughing. It was so scary.

If your child keeps coughing, you can try onion juice, which can relieve cough and tastes sweet and delicious. Compared to medicine, children will definitely be more receptive to it.

Ingredients:

1 onion.

practice:

Peel the onion, slice it, put it in a large bowl, steam it for 30 minutes and it is ready to serve.

Tips:

There is no need to add water after putting the onions into the bowl. After steaming for half an hour, only about 1 tablespoon of onion juice can be obtained. These essences are only useful after taking them. Adding water will greatly reduce the effect.

6. Cough and Asthma Relief - Ginkgo, Walnut, Almond and Pig Lung Soup

If the child doesn’t like the taste of onions when coughing, you can make a bowl of ginkgo, walnut, almond pig lung soup. This soup can warm the lungs and kidneys, relieve cough and asthma. It is suitable for people suffering from lung deficiency cough, long-term cough, bronchial asthma, and chronic bronchitis which are caused by deficiency of both lung and kidney.

Ingredients:

10 ginkgo nuts, 1 ounce of walnut meat, 5 qian of sweet almonds, 3 figs, 4 red dates, half a pound of pork bones, and half a pig lung.

practice:

Fill the pig lungs with water, rinse them, cut them into pieces and drain them; drain the pig bones; peel and core the ginkgo nuts; soak and wash the remaining ingredients; put all the ingredients into a pot and boil them with 8 bowls of water for about 2 hours until they become 4 to 5 bowls. You can eat it with the soup.

Tips:

This soup can be enjoyed by the whole family, young and old. Ginkgo is slightly poisonous and should not be used in excessive amounts, but too little will affect its cough and asthma-relieving effects. It is recommended that children eat a certain number of ginkgo nuts according to their age. If the whole family is drinking it, 15 to 20 ginkgo nuts can be used. The core of ginkgo nuts contains more bioalkali, so the core must be removed when cooking.

7. Phlegm-removing: Dragon's tongue leaf, almond and apple soup

Children cannot spit, so they may easily develop coughing due to the phlegm affecting their throats.

Longtan leaves are a good medicine for reducing phlegm and relieving cough, and are often available fresh in the vegetable market.

Boiling dragon tongue leaves with almonds and candied dates into soup is very helpful for people with cough and phlegm. You can also add 1 to 2 apples to cook together. Apples have the effect of moistening the lungs and can make the soup more delicious.

Ingredients:

1 liang of fresh dragon tongue leaf, 1 liang of almonds, 3 candied dates, and 2 apples.

practice:

Wash the garnet leaves; wash the apples, remove the core and cut into pieces; boil all the ingredients in 6 bowls of water for about 1 hour and then serve.

Tips:

This soup is sweet and delicious, and is a great drink for the whole family. If you are making homemade soup, add lean meat and cook together.

8. Digestion and elimination of stagnation - Barley malt and lean meat soup

Eating too much fatty food will damage the spleen and stomach function, causing indigestion, stomach bloating, belching, acid regurgitation, and poor appetite. Especially for children, whose spleen and stomach functions are not well developed, once they eat too much fatty or sweet food, they will experience symptoms such as abdominal distension, abdominal pain, loss of appetite or diarrhea.

Barley sprout, malt, tangerine peel and lean meat soup has the effects of digesting food, eliminating accumulation, strengthening the spleen and appetite, and relieving gas and harmonizing the stomach. It is very effective for symptoms such as weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, loss of appetite, food stagnation, and chest and abdominal distension.

Ingredients:

1 liang of fried barley sprout and malt, 2 qian of tangerine peel, 3-4 candied dates, and 6 liang of lean meat.

practice:

Soak and wash the ingredients, slice the lean meat; put all the ingredients into the pot and boil with 6 bowls of water for about half an hour.

Tips:

After being fried, the barley sprouts become stir-fried barley sprouts, which are good at helping digestion and eliminating accumulation; while raw barley sprouts have better effects of strengthening the spleen and appetizing.

9. Strengthen the spleen and lungs - Chinese yam, barley, persimmon cake porridge

Children with weak lung qi can use more spleen and lung-strengthening dietary soups to regulate their body. Huaishan, barley and persimmon porridge has the effects of strengthening the spleen, nourishing the lungs and eliminating dampness.

Ingredients:

1 liang of yam, 2 liang of coix seeds, and 1 liang of dried persimmon.

practice:

First, soak the yam and coix seeds in clean water until soft, mash them, add 6 bowls of water and cook for about half an hour until it becomes 3 bowls. Then add the chopped dried persimmon and cook for another half an hour before eating.

Tips:

It is more ideal to use fresh yam because it is easier to mash. Persimmon cake is sweet and cool, moistens the lungs and eliminates phlegm, clears away heat and stimulates appetite. If white persimmon frost is used instead of persimmon cake, the effect will be better. This porridge is nourishing and beneficial, and is very suitable for the elderly who have poor spleen and stomach and are prone to colds and coughs.