Parents asked: It is said that Sydney Chuanbei dissolves phlegm and relieves cough, why is it that the child has no effect after eating it?
Winter is the season of high incidence of respiratory infectious diseases such as mycoplasma pneumonia and influenza, and the demand for medical treatment for children in many places has increased. Zheng Yanhua, deputy chief physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Panyu Campus of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, found that many children had a cold and fever within a few days of returning to school. She suggested that in addition to following the doctor's instructions to standardize treatment and pay attention to daily hygiene protection (such as wearing masks, washing hands frequently, etc.), some small adjustments should also be made in terms of diet, which may be more conducive to controlling the recurrence of the disease.
Avoid spicy, raw and cold, it should be light and easy to digest
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that taboos, especially during illness, can be seen as a simple dietary therapy to help the body recover. When a person is in the acute stage of illness, the qi and blood will go to the lesion where the "struggle between good and evil" is most intense to help the human body, then the qi and blood distributed to the spleen and stomach will be relatively less. Some people will obviously feel light or bitter at the onset of the disease, tasteless food, and loss of appetite, which is actually a code of taboo issued by the body. If you prefer big fish and meat at this time, do not avoid spicy, raw and cold, it will only increase the burden on the body, leading to the aggravation or continuous disease.
In TCM clinics, doctors often remind people with weak spleen and stomach or patients with fever and cough (especially children) to avoid shrimp, crab, meat, milk, desserts and fruits. Because these foods are prone to dampness and phlegm, they will aggravate spleen deficiency and lung fever, so that the cough will not be cured for a long time, or the fever will recur. However, the taste of lean pork is relatively peaceful, if you have a good appetite and smooth stool, you can eat some lean meat appropriately, if the digestion is not good, it is recommended not to eat. When eating eggs, you can eat steamed eggs, which are more acceptable to the spleen and stomach. In addition, fried foods and dried fruit foods are easy to be dry, hurt yin and lungs, and it is best to avoid them during cold and cough.
Zheng Yanhua especially reminded parents that in the first few days of their children's illness, if they have loss of appetite, fatigue and slackness, do not be too entangled or worry about their children's temporary emaciation or malnutrition, they should be given light and easy-to-digest food, such as noodles, porridge, steamed buns, steamed eggs, green vegetables, minced meat, etc.
In addition, even after the child has recovered, do not immediately increase the amount of meat, eggs, milk, fruits, etc. because you are worried about nutritional problems, otherwise it may increase the burden on the spleen and stomach and lead to the recurrence of the disease.
It is said that pears moisten the lungs and Chuanbei dissolve phlegm, why is it ineffective after eating?
"Doesn't it all say that pears moisten the lungs and Chuanbei dissolve phlegm, why is it useless to eat at all?" Some parents will also cook Sydney Chuanbei for children with colds and coughs, but the feedback is that the more they eat, the more cough they get......
Zheng Yanhua said that colds, especially the first cold, are not suitable for the use of Chuanbei. The medicinal properties of Chuanbei are bitter, sweet, slightly cold, and have the effects of moistening the lungs and clearing heat, dissolving phlegm and relieving cough. Pear flesh is moisturizing the lungs, and when there is a lot of phlegm, the more you eat pears, the more phlegm you have. Chuanbei stewed pears are generally used to relieve yin deficiency and dry cough, dry cough for a long time, less phlegm or a small amount of blood streaks can be eaten. However, at the beginning of the cold, if there is phlegm and it is clear or white, it is better to avoid eating it first.
Zheng Yanhua suggested that at this time, you might as well try boiling water with tangerine peel and ginger to drink. Specific method: Put 3 grams of traditional Chinese tangerine peel in a pot and add water to boil, add 9 slices of peeled ginger (ginger slices are thicker, not too thin) and cook together for 5 minutes and turn off the heat. Pour out the liquid and drink it hot. If it is accompanied by a lot of clear nose, you can add another section of green onion white and cook it together.
If you have a cough and yellow phlegm after a cold, you can try boiling water with pear peel and white radish peel.
Specific method: Use the skin of a pear and the skin of half a white radish, add cold water to a pot, boil for another seven or eight minutes, and turn off the heat. For pears, choose ordinary Sydney pears and crystal pears, and generally do not choose Dangshan pears with coarse flesh.
Yin deficiency and dry lungs, less phlegm and cough for a long time, you can also try Yuzhu lean meat soup.
Specific method: 15 grams of jade bamboo, 200 grams of lean pork, cook soup together, or add 20 grams of lily (dry) to enhance the effect of nourishing yin.
If you are recovering from illness, fatigue, sweating, and coughing, you can try Zhang Xichun (one of the representatives of the Huitong School of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, a medical champion in the field of modern Chinese medicine. The recommended "one-flavor potato drink" is to boil water with yam and drink.
Specific method: Take 120 grams of dried yam tablets and boil them in 1000ml of water, boil them for 20 minutes at a time, and boil them twice and drink them slowly as water. If you feel that the taste is bland, you can add a few red dates.
Reporter Liu Xinyu Correspondent Xu Yongyi
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