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How to feed the baby a Traditional Chinese decoction
◎Pinch your nose and force it
◎Add sugar to the medicine! Add sugar! Add sugar!
◎ When the baby is playing and distracted, she will be fed a mouthful of medicine from time to time
◎ Coax and cheat, give the baby some rewards for drinking medicine
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Although Chinese medicine is good, it is helpless and too bitter
For most moms and dads
Give the baby soup medicine every time
It will make the chicken fly and the dog jump and be upset
however
Recently to Guangxi Maternal and Child Health Hospital (Guangxi Children's Hospital)
Parents and mothers who prescribe Chinese medicine
Will be pleasantly surprised to find
The decoction medicine that came out of the soup didn't seem to be so bitter anymore
Wa is not so resistant to drinking Chinese medicine anymore
It turned out that the hospital Chinese medicine pharmacy had recently purchased a chinese medicine with the same origin as medicine and food, and the doctor added this flavor of Chinese medicine to the baby when prescribing medicine, which not only exerted its medicinal effect, but also could be seasoned.
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A mysterious guest was invited to appear
▲ Monk fruit
Yes it! Yes it! That's it!
Luo Han Guo is a well-known local specialty in Guangxi, which has the effect of clearing heat and moisturizing the lungs, opening the throat and smoothing the intestines. It is used for the treatment of lung heat and dry cough, sore throat, loss of sound, dry bowel and constipation.
Monk fruit contains 300 times sweeter monk fruit glycosides than sucrose, but is extremely low in calories and is the best alternative to sucrose.
For babies with cough and constipation, Chinese medicine is added to monk fruit decoction, which can cover up the bitter taste, improve the taste, and facilitate the taking of soup medicine.
Some parents and mothers will ask: If there is no monk fruit in your hand, can you add sugar to chinese medicine to make it bitter?
Don't worry
Let's take a look first
Why Herbal Decoctions are bitter
The composition of Traditional Chinese medicine is complex, and the active ingredients are mostly alkaloids. Alkaloids are a class of nitrogen-containing organic compounds derived from the biological world and widely distributed in medicinal plants. Only a few alkaloids have a sweet taste (such as betaine, etc.), a few have a spicy taste (such as piperine, etc.), and the rest are mostly bitter (such as ephedrine, berberine, camptothecin, paclitaxel, matrine, etc.), so the traditional Chinese medicine decoction generally tastes bitter.
Can you add sugar to the herbal decoction?
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, sugar is also a taste of Chinese medicine. White sugar is cool, with the effect of moisturizing the lungs and generating jin; Brown sugar is warm in nature, and has the effect of nourishing qi and nourishing blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, dispelling wind and cold, and activating blood and dissolving stasis.
Effect of Chinese medicine with sugar on efficacy:
In terms of medicinal properties, white sugar is cool and brown sugar is warm. If white sugar is added to warm agents, or brown sugar is added to cold agents, it will weaken the medicinal properties, hinder the full absorption of drugs, and affect the efficacy of the drug to varying degrees.
Chinese medicine has acid, bitter, sweet, spicy, salty "five tastes", different medicinal tastes have different therapeutic effects. In general, sweet medicine can nourish and replenish deficiency, digest food and stomach, reconcile medicinal properties and relieve pain. The bitter taste medicine can clear the heat and diarrhea, relieve the breath, reduce the reverse and stop vomiting, tongli stool, etc., so its bitter taste has a certain medicinal purpose and cannot be eliminated at will.
If your child has symptoms such as bloating and fullness and thick tongue due to stagnation of damp heat in the body, it is not recommended to add sugar to avoid heat. If you add sugar when taking damp and rational qi medicines, it will not only fail to treat the disease, but also aggravate the disease.
Traditional Chinese medicines for the treatment of cough should not be sweetened, especially those with cough and phlegm. Because some traditional Chinese medicines for cough treatment mainly play the role of sputum, and sugar will stimulate the mucous membrane of the throat of the person, so that the secretion of sputum increases, thus affecting the efficacy of the drug.
Some stomach-strengthening, digestion-aiding Traditional Chinese medicines use their bitter taste to stimulate taste, causing increased secretion of digestive glands, thereby enhancing appetite and other effects on stomach. If the drug tastes bitter and is taken with sugar, this effect no longer exists, and it loses the effect of stomach and digestion.
Therefore, when taking Chinese herbal decoctions, you should not add sugar casually.
To add sugar
It must be added as appropriate under the guidance of a physician
How to feed your baby a bitter Chinese medicine decoction
See the maternal and child pharmacist
Put! Big! Recruit!
The "Feeding Medicine Book" is not thankful to take away
The first trick is to master the temperature of the liquid medicine
Related studies have confirmed that the tongue is more sensitive to temperatures above 37 °C, so the temperature of bitter Chinese medicine soup should be controlled at 15 °C ~ 37 °C.
Master the second trick of the mouth and pharynx
Studies have shown that human bitter taste receptors are mainly concentrated in the front half of the tongue, with the tip of the tongue being the most prominent. Therefore, after the liquid is introduced, it is best to quickly store it at the base of the tongue and swallow it naturally, or you can use a tablespoon to send the liquid directly to the base of the tongue and swallow it.
The third trick is to master the speed of taking the drug
The longer the liquid remains in the mouth, the more bitter the taste will be. Therefore, the use of bitter Chinese medicine strives to be clean and fleeting.
Drink the fourth trick of moderately warm boiled water after taking the medicine
This is not only conducive to the absorption of the liquid by the gastrointestinal tract, but also relieves the bitter taste of the solution to a certain extent.
The fifth trick is to add condiments appropriately
If necessary, it can be mixed with licorice, jujube and other mixtures for flavor correction.
Special attention should be paid to the fact that when children cry or inhale loudly, they should not be fed medicine to avoid choking cough.
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Text 丨 Chen Shaoping
Photo 丨 Xu Weichao