Can children drink Astragalus and lean meat soup?

Huangshi is a very good tonic for the human body. If you are too weak or often sick, you can take Huangshi. If you want to make the tonic effect more ideal, you can also match it with some food, such as lean meat, etc. Children need to pay attention to their diet because their gastrointestinal function has not yet fully developed. So can children drink Huangqi lean meat soup?

First, can children drink Astragalus and Lean Meat Soup? If the child has a Qi deficiency, he can take some Astragalus as a tonic under the guidance of a doctor, but it is not recommended if the child is healthy. If the baby suffers from severe night sweats due to physical weakness, it is recommended to use 15 grams of astragalus and 20 red dates, add appropriate amount of water, and simmer for about 1 hour. After drinking this medicine, the baby with weak constitution can significantly improve the night sweats. Some parents are afraid that their children will be too weak after catching a cold, so they will use Astragalus to make soup. Astragalus has obvious effects in replenishing qi, and doctors often use it to treat night sweats in children. Children with a cold will sweat more than usual, so some parents will cook lean meat with astragalus for their babies to drink. In fact, this approach is not appropriate. Astragalus is warm in nature and cannot be used if the cold has not yet been cured. Unless there is an obvious case of qi deficiency, it should not be used frequently even when making soup on a daily basis.

Second, the harm of children taking Huangshi: causing precocious puberty. If children are often given Huangshi, it is easy to cause precocious puberty in children. This is mainly because consuming a large amount of Huangshi will affect the normal functioning of the child's endocrine function. This kind of precocious puberty is induced by parents, so it is called pseudo-precocious puberty. Its characteristics are that the boy's penis becomes thicker, the girl's breasts suddenly enlarge or the vagina discharges leucorrhea-like secretions and grows pubic hair. Aggravating existing symptoms: Taking tonic medicine that is incompatible with your constitution will not only be unhelpful, but may also aggravate the symptoms. For example, if a person with yang deficiency takes yin-nourishing medicine, the yang deficiency will become worse; if a person with yin deficiency takes astragalus, the yin will become more deficient; if a person who often suffers from gastrointestinal bloating takes qi-tonifying medicine such as astragalus, the symptoms will become more severe. Children's constitutions are weaker than adults, and if they take astragalus frequently, they will over-tonify the body.

If you are a patient with kidney yin deficiency, damp heat, or severe heat toxicity, then you must not take Astragalus membranaceus in water, because this will not only fail to restore the body to health, but will aggravate the condition. If this type of patient wants to restore health, they should soak Coptis chinensis, Rhubarb, Patrinia jasminoides and Gardenia jasminoides in water and drink it, and never choose Astragalus membranaceus.