What is the most effective food for children with phlegm?

It is a common phenomenon for children to have phlegm, and when children have phlegm, they are often accompanied by symptoms of coughing. Therefore, if you want to treat your child's symptoms of phlegm, you need to take certain cough suppressant measures. For children, the safest treatment method is diet therapy. Dietary recipes such as radish honey drink, lily honey, and lily and winter melon drink can all effectively treat symptoms of cough and phlegm in children.

1. Radish and honey drink

Ingredients: 5 slices of white radish, 3 slices of ginger, 3 dates, and 30 grams of honey.

Preparation and administration: Boil radish, ginger and jujube in appropriate amount of water for about 30 minutes, remove the residue, add honey and boil again.

Take while warm. 1 to 2 times a day.

Function and indications: Radish tastes spicy and sweet, and is cool in nature. It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting body fluid, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Its alcohol extract has a strong antibacterial effect on Gram-positive bacteria. Ginger is a commonly used medicine for dispelling wind and cold, stopping vomiting and relieving gas. Jujubes are mostly used to harmonize the stomach, nourish blood and harmonize medicines. Honey moisturizes and relieves cough. This drink can dispel cold, clear the lungs, dispel wind and relieve cough.

For the treatment of colds and coughs, it is better to treat them with wind-cold and cough.

Note: This product can be tried on weak infants who are prone to frequent colds and coughs, or whose symptoms cannot be cured or persist for a long time. However, it is not suitable for patients with wind-heat cough, fever and yellow sputum.

2. Lily Honey

Ingredients: 60 grams of lily and 30 grams of honey.

Preparation and administration: Wash and dry the lilies, mix well with honey, and steam them in a pot.

This honey-cooked lily can be used as a snack for babies.

Indications and functions: Lily tastes sweet and slightly bitter, and is slightly cold in nature. It has the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, clearing the heart and calming the nerves. Contains starch, protein, fat, various alkalis, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other ingredients. Pharmacological tests have shown that its decoction has an antitussive effect on children's cough caused by ammonia, and can counteract toad spider asthma caused by histamine. Use with honey to enhance its lung-moistening and cough-relieving effects.

It is suitable for treating chronic bronchitis in infants, dry cough in the throat, especially dry cough after the beginning of autumn, accompanied by constipation.

Note: It is not suitable for infants with spleen deficiency and loose stools. This method is easy to take and is suitable for use in autumn and winter.

3. Lily and Coltsfoot Flower Drink

Ingredients: 30-60 grams of lily, 10-15 grams of coltsfoot, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Preparation and use: Place all ingredients in a casserole and cook into syrup.

Drink water and eat lilies, preferably after dinner and before going to bed.

Indications and functions: Lily moistens the lungs and relieves cough. Coltsfoot flowers are pungent and warm, and have the effects of moistening the lungs, relieving qi, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. The extract of this product can slightly dilate the bronchi and has an antispasmodic effect on spasms caused by histamine. Therefore, it has the effects of relieving cough, removing phlegm and relieving asthma. The combination of the two medicines has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, and reducing gas and resolving phlegm.

Treat chronic bronchitis in infants, bronchial asthma (remission period), cough in autumn and winter, dry and sore throat, and long-term cough.

Note: This drink is suitable for autumn and winter coughs with a little phlegm. It is not as effective for bronchial asthma or spasmodic bronchitis, but can be used as an auxiliary treatment.