Spring begins in Lichun (between February 2 and 5) and ends in Lixia (between May 5 and 7). Spring is warm and cold at first, sometimes cold and hot, it is difficult to rest; spring is a rainy season, the humidity is heavier, and the air pressure is high and low, which is very unstable. Proper home care and a reasonable diet can ensure that children are in a healthy state in the spring and reduce the occurrence of diseases.
The effect of spring climate on children
1, spring climate change is frequent, and the adaptability of children's bodies is poor, cold and warm do not know self-adjustment, if the clothing is increased or decreased in time, it is easy to catch colds and diseases. In the spring, the humidity is heavy, the spleen soil is wet, and the transport function of the spleen and stomach is damaged, coupled with the lack of spleen in children, and the diet is not good at self-control, which is prone to loss of appetite, diarrhea and other discomforts. In the spring, everything grows, and mosquitoes, bacteria and viruses also multiply and grow at this time, resulting in many infectious diseases and skin diseases, such as influenza, chickenpox, scarlet fever, measles, mumps, dengue fever, papule urticaria and so on.
2. Spring is the flowering season, pollen is flying, children with allergic constitution are prone to allergic diseases after inhaling pollen, such as allergic cough, asthma, allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis, allergic dermatitis, etc.
3, Chinese medicine believes that "spring, summer, long autumn harvest and winter storage", spring is the "golden season" of growth, children's growth and development is the fastest, the body's demand for calcium nutrition also increases accordingly, and at this time it is mostly rainy weather, less sunshine time, easy to lead to insufficient calcium absorption in children's body, in a relatively calcium deficiency state, sweating, irritability, restlessness at night, pillow baldness, etc.
4. The spring climate is changeable, the air pressure is unstable, the rain is long, and it is easy to cause children's emotional uneasiness and temperament changes.
Correct family care and a reasonable diet can ensure that children are in a healthy state and reduce the occurrence of diseases. Chinese medicine believes that "when spring, food is sweet to reduce acid to nourish the spleen and support the yang". Diet should focus on healthy spleen and aphrodisiac, which can appropriately increase nutrition. Amino acids in protein play an important role in invigorating people's spirits, B vitamins have an important physiological role in maintaining the normal function of nerves, digestion, muscles and circulatory systems, calcium and magnesium can affect muscle contraction and the conversion of nerve cells, which is conducive to relieving mental tension. The intake of foods containing such nutrients should be appropriately increased, mainly including lean pork, animal offal, fish, eggs, milk, beans and their products, seaweed, grains, tomatoes, carrots, spinach, greens, broccoli, fruits and so on.
Professor Xu Wen, a famous Chinese medicine practitioner in Guangdong Province and the director of the Affiliated Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, recommends several spring soup recipes to help children grow up healthily.
1. Lotus seed lentil pork tendon soup
Ingredients: lotus seeds (with core), lentils 15 grams each, pork tendon meat 125 grams.
Preparation method: Pork tendon meat fly water to remove the meat, with lotus seeds, lentils in the same pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil after slow cooking for 1-2 hours, add a little salt can be eaten.
Effect: Healthy spleen and dampness, clear heart and reduce fire.
Indications: Suitable for children with spleen deficiency and disease, poor appetite in spring.
Tip: Lotus seeds have an astringent effect, and people with constipation should not eat it. The lotus core has the effect of purifying the heart, so the lotus seeds of this soup party are cooked together with the core.
2. Crucian carp soup with tangerine peel
Ingredients: 15 g of mustard, 3 g of tangerine peel, 1 crucian carp.
Preparation method: White crucian carp to remove the scales and internal organs, with the mustard, tangerine peel together in the casserole, add the right amount of water, boil and then turn to slow heat for 1 hour, add a little salt and then eat.
Effect: Healthy spleen dry and wet.
Indications: Suitable for children with indigestion and loose stools in spring.
3. Huaishan backbone soup
Ingredients: Huaishan 15 g, goji berries 10 g, spine 250 g.
Preparation method: pork backbone fly water to remove meat, with Huaishan, goji berries together in a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water to cook soup, boil after boiling slow heat for 2 hours, add a little salt can be eaten.
Effect: Healthy spleen and liver nourishment, moisturize the intestines.
Indications: Suitable for children with spring fatigue, irritability and dry stools.
Tip: Children with loose stools should not be eaten.
4. Floating wheat tendon broth
Ingredients: 10 g of floating wheat, 1 piece of dates, 125 g of pork tendon meat.
Preparation method: Tendon meat flying water to remove the meat, cut into pieces, with floating wheat, dates together in the casserole dish, add an appropriate amount of clear, boil after turning to slow heat for 1 hour, add a little salt and then eat.
Benefits: Clears the heart and sweats.
Indications: Suitable for children who sweat, irritable and irritable.
Tips: Dates should be selected of better quality, with less surface frosting, dry jujube body, fine and well-proportioned silk lines, and complete particles.
5. Almond tangerine peel pork lung soup
Ingredients: 6 grams each of southern almonds and tangerine peel, 125 grams of pig lung.
Preparation method: wash the pig lungs, fly water to remove foam and odor, put in a casserole dish with the southern almonds and orange peel, add an appropriate amount of water, boil and cook slowly for 2 hours, add a little salt and eat.
Effect: Clears the lungs and humidifies phlegm.
Indications: Suitable for children with cough and sputum in spring.
Tip: Almonds should be used with southern almonds, and the dosage should not be too large.
6. Prince ginseng solid lean broth
Ingredients: 15 grams of taizi ginseng, 10 grams of mustard fruit, 125 grams of lean pork.
Preparation method: Lean pork fly water to remove the meat, cut into pieces, put together with taizi ginseng, mustard solid in a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, boil and then turn to slow heat for 2 hours, add a little salt and then eat.
Effect: Healthy spleen and damp astringency.
Indications: Suitable for children with loose and sweaty stools in spring.
Tip: Not for those with dry stools.
7. Grain malt duck kidney soup
Ingredients: 10 grams each of grain sprouts and malt, 1 duck kidney (fresh product), 3 grams of tangerine peel.
Preparation method: cut the duck kidney, peel off the duck inner gold, wash with salt and cut into large pieces, placed in a casserole dish with grain sprouts, malt and tangerine peel, add an appropriate amount of water, boil and cook for 1 hour, add a little salt and eat.
Effect: Healthy spleen appetizer, digestion and stagnation.
Indications: Suitable for children in the spring indigestion, loss of appetite, bloating and vomiting, etc.
Tip: The grain sprouts and malt in this soup recipe can be wrapped in tulle bags and then cooked. Tangerine peel can dry and wet, remove the odor of duck kidneys.
[Source: Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Guangzhou Medical University, Author: Xu Wen Selected from the book "Protection and Maintenance of Pediatric Diseases" (edited by Xu Wen Provincial Famous Chinese Medicine Studio), Editor: Liang Yiyin]