The recent weather can be said to be hot and humid. After leaving the air-conditioned room, the outside was like a big steamer, making people breathless. Children in such an environment are prone to develop various problems. They may feel weak, have no appetite for food, and may easily accumulate and .
Many parents will think of cooking therapeutic formulas for their children, but the therapeutic formulas taste bad and the children don’t like to drink them. What should they do?
Today Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Pediatrics Professor Xu Youjia teaches you how to make some sugar water. It is sweet and is loved by adults and children. It also has good therapeutic effects and helps children spend the summer safely.
1 Sweetness enters the spleen, which can replenish the spleen and nourish the stomach
"The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic·Suwen·Xuanming Five Qi" records that "sweetness enters the spleen". The spleen controls sweetness. In summer when the spleen is weak and the spleen meridian is weak, it is best to eat something sweet. foods to replenish the spleen and stomach.
When boiling sugar water for children, rock sugar or brown sugar is generally used. Brown sugar is sweet in taste and warm in nature, and returns to the liver and spleen meridian. It has the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing blood and promoting qi, moistening the heart and lungs, and soothing liver qi. Rock sugar is sweet in taste and calm in nature. It returns to the spleen and lung meridians. It has the functions of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, harmonizing the stomach and moistening the lungs, relieving coughs, and resolving phlegm and saliva. It is more suitable for children.
It should be noted that the sweet food mentioned here ≠ sweet food . The latter contains a large number of additives, which will increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, making children prone to accumulation and moisture.
2 No appetite?
Drink hawthorn apple brown sugar water
When the weather is hot, many children will show poor appetite. At this time, parents can first check whether the child's tongue coating, breath, stool, and sleep are normal.
If everything is normal, it may be because the hot weather has affected the child's spleen and stomach function; but if there are problems with 1 or 2 items, the child may have a poor appetite due to digestive problems.
At this time, drinking some hawthorn apple brown sugar water is a good choice.
Hawthorn tastes sour, sweet, and slightly warm in nature. It returns to the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians. It has the effects of digesting food and strengthening the stomach, promoting qi and dispersing blood stasis, resolving turbidity, and lowering fat. Paired with apples, which are sweet and cool in nature and can produce body fluids, moisturize the lungs, relieve troubles, relieve heat, and whet the appetite, it can have the effects of appetizing, promoting body fluids, digesting food and stopping diarrhea, so it is very suitable to be taken in summer.
Recommended dietary prescription: Hawthorn Apple Brown Sugar Water
Hawthorn Apple Brown Sugar Water
Ingredients: 2 fresh hawthorns (or 5g dried hawthorns), 1 apple, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Method: Wash, core and cut the apple into pieces, remove the seeds from the fresh hawthorn, and set aside; put the hawthorn and brown sugar into the pot, add about 2 bowls of water and cook until soft and rotten, add the apples to the pot, bring to a boil over high heat and then reduce to low heat. Boil for 10 minutes, skim off the foam and serve warm. When food accumulation occurs, take it with a vegetarian diet for 3 days; for daily health care, take it 1 to 2 times a week. Efficacy of
: stimulates appetite, promotes fluid production, digestion and relieves diarrhea.
Applicable age: 3 years and above for verification, small amount and multiple servings. broad bean disease can be taken.
3 Too much moisture?
drink kapok rock sugar water
The recent weather is very hot and humid, and the spleen likes dryness and hates dampness. In addition, children are born with spleen deficiency, so it is easy for the spleen and stomach to be trapped by dampness.
We can observe the child's stool and tongue coating. If the stool is "sticky", shapeless, and sticky to the toilet, it is difficult to wipe it clean. The tongue coating is thick and greasy, covering the tongue in a thick layer, as if he has eaten a big mouthful. If dry milk powder sticks to the tongue, it means that the child is wet.
My child has a lot of moisture, how to get rid of it? You can use , kapok rock sugar water, , to clear away heat and promote dampness, . It can also be used as a daily health-care diet to remove dampness, and take it once a week.
Recommended dietary prescription: kapok rock sugar water
kapok rock sugar water
Ingredients: kapok 10g, appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method: Kapok Boil water, add appropriate amount of rock sugar after the water boils, once a week.
efficacy: daily dehumidification and health care.
Applicable age: 1 years old and above for verification, small amount and multiple servings. Fava bean disease can be taken.
4 Having trouble sleeping? Use Anxin Sugar Water
In the hot summer, people's mental state is relatively irritable, and many people will have sleep problems. Children are prone to having trouble sleeping due to their body heat and weather conditions.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that insomnia is often caused by insufficient yin blood and a lack of nourishment for the heart. Therefore, we must attach great importance to nourishing the heart and calming the mind. At this time, drinking some peace-of-mind sugar water is a good choice.
Recommended dietary prescription: Anxin sugar water
Anxin sugar water
Ingredients: half a white fungus, 5g cored lotus seeds, 35g lily, 5g wolfberry, 5g rock sugar.
Method: Put white fungus, lotus seeds and lily into the pot, add water to cover the ingredients. After the fire comes to a boil, turn to low heat and simmer for 1 hour until the white fungus is soft. Add the wolfberry and cook for another 10 minutes to season.
Efficacy: clears the liver , supports yang and strengthens the spleen.
Applicable age: 3 years and above for verification, small amount and multiple servings. Fava bean disease can be taken. ■
[Source: Xu Youjia Nursery, Medical Director: Xu Youjia, Director of Pediatrics, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine]
