The truth behind the common folk remedies for infants and young children in those years

In those years, whether it was heard or seen, or passed down, parents all knew some folk remedies for babies, and many people used them consistently. But are they correct? Are they harmful to children? Today, the editor will reveal the authenticity of those folk remedies for you, let us take a look.

Baby remedy: eggs and silver coins can dispel wind

If your baby catches a cold, you can boil the eggs in the shell, peel them, take out the yolk, put a silver coin in it, and let the egg white wrap the silver coin.

Wrap the egg white with another layer of gauze. While the egg is hot, use it to gently push the baby's forehead and temples. After a while, the silver coin will turn black. Wipe the blackened silver coins with wood ash or cloth, and repeat the above steps.

Interpretation: This method is actually scraping, one of the external treatments in traditional Chinese medicine. There are now professional scraping tools on the market, so it doesn’t have to be as troublesome as before. Wrapping the silver coin with egg white only serves as a buffer. The blackening of the silver coin does not indicate the severity of the disease or the effectiveness of the treatment. Because silver coins oxidize when they come into contact with air, they will naturally turn black. It is recommended not to use this method for younger infants and young children because their skin is delicate and easily damaged.

Baby recipe: Magical fried rice cereal

Fry the rice until it is mushy, then add water and boil it. Then add a little milk powder to the soup and give it to the baby with diarrhea. This can effectively stop diarrhea and help the baby recover.

Interpretation: Grinding roasted rice into powder and drinking it after brewing is a simple and easy folk remedy for treating diarrhea in children. Jiao Sanxian (fried hawthorn, fried malt, and fried Shenqu) is a well-known traditional Chinese medicine for treating indigestion. The fried and roasted rice sprouts (rice and wheat) have the effects of eliminating grain accumulation, digesting meat, and invigorating the spleen and astringing. Therefore, this prescription can be used as auxiliary treatment for babies suffering from mild diarrhea or in the recovery period of diarrhea.

Baby remedy: Use chicken gizzard to eliminate food accumulation

If your baby has indigestion due to overeating, you can dry the chicken gizzard (the membrane on the outside of the chicken gizzard), then mash it into powder, mix it with warm water, and let the baby drink it with the residue. Although it tastes bad, it is very effective.

Interpretation: This folk remedy is very scientific and consistent with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine. Chicken gizzard lining has the effect of digesting food and relieving stagnation. After we slaughter chickens, ducks and other birds and poultry, we open the gizzards and find that they are filled with a lot of mud and sand. This shows how powerful their digestive ability is! In rural areas, many families will save a few chicken gizzards, dry them in a pot over a low fire, and then grind them into fine powder and feed them to their babies when they have indigestion. The therapeutic effect is very significant. Even today, chicken's gizzard lining is still widely used by clinicians to treat children with poor appetite, abdominal distension and pain, and weak spleen and stomach.

Baby remedy: Egg yolk → eczema killer

Put the cooked egg yolk in an iron spoon and stir-fry to release the oil. Then use this oil to apply to the areas where the baby has eczema. It can not only treat eczema, but also make the baby's facial skin smooth.

Interpretation: This is a folk method for treating childhood eczema. There is only one ingredient that really works: bran oil, which is extracted from egg yolks or rice bran and is used to treat various exudative skin diseases. Of course, this oil is not effective for all skin diseases, and it is still necessary to use symptomatic medication under the guidance of a doctor.

Baby remedy: wine "pulls" the cold air

Put wine in your mouth and inhale towards your baby's belly button until you feel numbness in your mouth. This method of using wine to cool down the body can relieve children's stomach pain caused by wind.

Interpretation: This method is neither scientific nor hygienic, so it is best not to use it. There are many drugs and treatments available to treat gastrointestinal spasms in children, such as Chinese medicine navel plasters or Chinese medicine acupoint introduction, which can help relieve children's pain in a timely manner.

Baby recipe: delicious radish and honey soup to relieve cough

Wash a white radish, hollow out the center, and add 100 grams of honey. Put the radish in a bowl and steam it for 20 minutes. Eat radish and drink soup twice a day.

Interpretation: Radish is both a vegetable and a medicinal material, and has the effect of relieving chest tightness and regulating qi. Radish seeds, also known as radish seeds, are also a commonly used Chinese medicine. They have the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs, relieving bloating and regulating qi, and digesting food and promoting bowel movements. Honey is an important medicine for moistening the lungs.

This recipe can be taken as a home diet therapy for health care, but if there is a lot of phlegm and a severe cough, it is not advisable to add a lot of honey, because honey is sweeter and is more likely to cause coughing. Since honey contains botulinum toxin, it is not suitable for babies under 1 year old.