It is about to be the New Year, and many mothers are most worried about the baby's irregular life during the New Year, eating sea plugs every day. If you manage it a little more strictly, you will be said by everyone, "Big New Year's Day, let the children eat it." ”
As a result, after a few days, some children will have a hot stomach, loss of appetite, anorexia, bad breath, dry or sour stools, smelly farts, constant hiccups, spitting acid, sleep restlessness, and fever in the hands and feet. That is, we are talking about accumulated food.
But many people also have some traditional taboos, and not taking medicine for the New Year is one of them. Then, at such a special time, how can we not take medicine again and have a peaceful year?
The same source of medicine and food provides us with a good help, so that we can "elegantly" deal with these small problems.
As we all know, dialectics is a very key piece of Chinese medicine, and we need to judge what is the cause of the disease through dialectics, so that we can choose the right treatment plan.
So at the New Year, our babies will mainly accumulate food because of what they eat? First and foremost is meat.
On the table of the Spring Festival, it is absolutely impossible to be less meat, and although the "head of the year" of the Chinese has changed many times, the Spring Festival has not changed. In the era of food scarcity, it is still necessary to eat meat in the New Year, not to mention the material abundance now. Chicken, duck, fish, pigs, cattle and sheep, all kinds of meat will be served on the table, and outside the guest is also, the more meat dishes can reflect the hospitality and enthusiasm of the host family, that eat so much meat, how do we help the baby to digest them quickly?
Our first protagonist is the hawthorn. The Chinese Pharmacopoeia records: hawthorn, acid, sweet, micro-warm. Digest the stomach, and disperse the stasis. It is used for meat stagnation, stomach swelling and so on. Some mothers will find that adding some hawthorn to the stew will make the meat softer and rotten, which is the same reason.
Here we only need to remember: when babies eat too much meat, appropriate to eat some hawthorn for the baby, can effectively help the baby digest and absorb, it is not easy to accumulate food.
The second most common is starch.
In Guangdong, there is a dish called "Five Grains and Fengdeng", which is mostly made of corn, yam, pumpkin, sweet potato/purple potato, potato, edamame, cashew nut, etc., which symbolizes the great harvest of the previous year and the beautiful yearning for the coming year, as well as a steaming bowl of lotus soup in Hubei, Hunan, and there will also be pulled sweet potatoes and dumplings in the northeast.
These thick starchy foods can not only make us feel the richness of life, but also make the baby's stomach more likely to have a feeling of fullness. How can you digest them quickly?
Our second protagonist is malt. The Chinese Pharmacopoeia records: malt, sweet, flat. Practice qi and digestion, healthy spleen and appetizer. It is used for food accumulation, abdominal distention and pain, spleen deficiency and lack of food.
Malt can be bought in Chinese medicine stores, but generally home is relatively rare, then there is a more daily choice: flour itself is made of wheat, there is a saying called "original soup to change the original food", so dumpling soup and noodle soup itself is a good consumption drink.
However, the best in malt consumption is charred malt, which is fried malt, which is not easy to find, in fact, in the snack now, there is a thing called "fried rice", which is a good substitute, buy it home and boil it with water, give the baby to drink, it can be well digested. If you don't have fried rice, you can also slowly fry the rice in an iron pot until it is browned, and then use it to cook soup.
There is also a food that can easily cause accumulation, but mothers may not think of it - carbonated drinks.
The large amount of carbon dioxide in carbonated drinks has an inhibitory effect on the beneficial bacteria in the human body, so the digestive system will be destroyed. Moreover, if you drink more carbonated drinks, the carbon dioxide released can easily cause bloating, affect appetite, and even cause gastrointestinal disorders.
What if our baby drinks a lot of carbonated drinks, causing bloating, constipation, and loss of appetite?
Our third protagonist is not a blind eater, but a group, and they are - fruit.
Let's take a look at some of the records in the Compendium of Materia Medica.
Apricot: Sexual taste: sweet, bitter, warm. Indications: no food stopping, full of gas expansion, etc.
Pear: Sexual taste: sweet, slightly sour, cold. Indications: nausea, inferior drugs.
Jujube: Sexual taste: sweet, spicy, hot, non-toxic. Indications: Reconcile stomach qi, nausea and vomiting, etc.
Orange: Sexual taste: sour, cold, non-toxic. Indications: stop nausea, remove the floating wind and evil qi in the stomach, etc.
Grapefruit: Sexual taste: sour, cold, non-toxic. Indications: digestion, detoxification, removal of evil qi in the stomach and intestines, etc. (Adults who have drunk alcohol can also use it)
Sugarcane: Sexual taste: sweet, flat, astringent, non-toxic. Indications: nausea and vomiting, vomiting, etc.
Honey: Sexual taste: sweet, flat, non-toxic. Indications: Stool is not passed, etc. (Honey doesn't count as fruit, but it's used in the fruit tea in the back.) ）
Note: Here we only list the part of the fruit that is stagnant, and other functions are not quoted.
Finally, we will start to turn these ingredients into fruit tea, which will not only improve bloating and stool blockage, but also look good to drink, which is a very suitable drink during the New Year.
Recipe 1:
A handful of oolong tea, 3 to 5 slices of dried hawthorn, 2 slices of pear, 2 peeled oranges
Use hot water to boil the hawthorn and pear slices on high heat, turn the heat down and simmer for 10 minutes, use the boiled water to brew oolong tea, then pour the brewed oolong tea into the fruit teapot, put in the orange, and then light a small candle, keep the water warm, and you can drink.
Recipe 2:
3 to 5 slices of dried hawthorn, 2 apricots, 1 crispy date (pitted), 1 handful of fried rice, 1 small spoonful of honey
Bring hawthorn and fried rice to a boil in hot water, reduce the heat to a low heat for 10 minutes, pour the boiled water into a fruit teapot, add apricots, crisp dates, and then light a small candle, keep the water warm, mix well with honey, and drink.
Recipe 3:
1 slice of grapefruit, 2 pieces of hawthorn fruit (seeded), 1 spoonful of honey, 2 slices of pear
Put the grapefruit meat and hawthorn fruit in a bowl and crush it as badly as possible, then slowly pour in the honey, stir until it is mushy, take out the appropriate amount of paste, put it into the fruit teapot with the pears, pour hot water, light a small candle, keep the water warm, and drink.
Of course, some mothers have to ask again, "Isn't the fruit cold?" Can my baby eat so many chilly things? "Here, we have to remind mothers that it is true that some fruits are cold, but when the baby accumulates food, there is usually heat in the middle of the coke, and the cold fruit just plays a neutralizing role." Here's a hint: babies with spleen and stomach deficiency drink less or not. If your baby's symptoms of accumulated food are alleviated, there is no need to continue drinking.
Finally, according to the ancient five luck and six qi of Chinese medicine, 2022 will be a year of "wood too much", and mothers can add a small amount of roses to the above formula, not only the color will look better, but the mothers will also feel comfortable and peaceful.
Moms can make slight modifications according to their own tastes. I wish you all peace of mind for a year without accumulating food.
Wen | Mao Minghao
Editor | Xiaoya
Illustration | Jasmine & Alaya
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