Can children eat yam when they have a cough?

Yam is a food ingredient suitable for all ages. Its soft and glutinous taste is loved by many elderly and children. It is also a medicinal ingredient that can be used as medicine. Eating yam regularly can enhance the body's hematopoietic function, delay human aging from the inside, replenish the body, lower blood sugar, and treat diabetes. It seems that yam has many wonderful uses. But can children eat yam if they have a cold and cough? Many parents are not very clear about this.

1. Yam is a food and medicine that can nourish the spleen and stomach. It is effective for cough caused by deficiency of both qi and yin. Regardless of whether it is for the right disease or not, it is very good for children to eat some yam, but it must be iron stick yam to be effective. For children with cough due to spleen deficiency, they can eat more yam, or cook lotus seed porridge, coix seed porridge and jujube porridge. Eggs stewed in tea can effectively relieve coughs, especially for long-term and recurrent internal injury coughs accompanied by exogenous wind and cold.

2. Yam is also a good complementary food for infants and young children. When adding complementary foods to infants and young children, you can make the yam into yam puree and eat it in small amounts. You can also make soup with yam and bones, then cook the soup and porridge together and feed it to your baby, eating a little at a time. The baby's digestive function is not yet fully developed. Eating too much will cause indigestion, so add a small amount of food. (The yam should not be boiled for too long, otherwise the amylase contained in it will decompose, thus losing the nourishing effect of the yam.

3. Yam cough remedy

Preparation method: Cut 100 grams of raw yam into small pieces, add a bowl of water, boil, filter and let cool, then add the juice of a sour pomegranate, a spoonful of honey, and 2 raw egg yolks, mix well and drink once a day. The treatment will take effect in 1 to 2 days. Efficacy: Yam and pomegranate are used to treat cough, sputum, dry cough, shortness of breath, cyanosis, fatigue, loss of appetite, lower limb edema, heart failure, hemoptysis, bloody stool and other symptoms caused by chronic diseases such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, pneumonia, etc., with excellent results.

4. Yam porridge can also relieve cough

Method: Peel the yam, cut it into small pieces, put it into a food grinder, add half a bowl of water, beat the yam into a paste, then pour the paste into the pot and heat it until boiling. (Yam porridge should be taken by the child on an empty stomach, and a bowl of yam porridge can be divided into 2-3 portions and fed to the baby.) Efficacy: Yam and pomegranate are used to treat cough, sputum, dry cough, shortness of breath, cyanosis, fatigue, loss of appetite, lower limb edema, heart failure, hemoptysis, bloody stool and other symptoms caused by chronic diseases such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, pneumonia, etc., with excellent results.