When a baby coughs, mothers start to worry and resort to various cough medicines. However, there are 6 types of food that can be more effective for relieving baby's cough.
1. Garlic
According to traditional Chinese medicine, garlic has a spicy and sweet taste and a warm nature. It can warm the middle and invigorate the stomach, aid digestion, detoxify, and kill parasites. It also has the ability to protect the cardiovascular system, liver function, prevent colds, and kill bacteria. Therefore, drinking some garlic water in moderation can be very effective in curing a cough in children.
2. Pear
When we were young and had a cold and cough, our family would boil a pear and add some sugar. In fact, pear does have the effect of treating a cough. Pear itself contains a large amount of protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, glucose, fructose, malic acid, carotene, and various vitamins. In addition, pear skin, flowers, leaves, and roots can all be used as medicine, with good effects of clearing heat, resolving phlegm, nourishing the lungs, and detoxifying. It has positive effects on dry and hot cough, cold and cough, measles cough, and bronchitis cough.
3. Loquat
In the Compendium of Materia Medica, loquat is described as "quenching thirst, relieving qi, benefiting lung qi, and stopping vomiting and thirst phlegm." It can be seen that loquat has a very good relieving and treating effect on children's cough. Of course, the most common way to eat loquat is to remove the skin and eat it directly. But be sure to clean the skin thoroughly as it can be very dirty.
4. Radish
Radish has the functions of clearing heat and generating body fluids, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, resolving phlegm and stopping cough, promoting urination, and detoxification. The simplest way is to boil some radish water for the child, which has a good effect on cough. Of course, you can also make radish ginger juice, radish vegetable soup, candied radish, and radish wine decoction as medicinal food to better treat children's cough.
5. Orange
Oranges have a sour and sweet taste and a cool nature. They have good effects on stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, quenching thirst, and moisturizing the lungs for children. When a child has a cough, baking oranges or stir-frying them in a pan can be a better way for the child to consume them and treat the cough.
6. Tomato
Tomatoes have a cool and slightly cold nature and a sour and sweet taste. They can clear heat and quench thirst, nourish yin, cool blood, and benefit the liver, stomach, and lung meridians. They have the functions of refreshing and quenching thirst, invigorating the stomach and aiding digestion, clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and soothing the liver, and nourishing and promoting appetite.
They also contain lycopene, which has the ability to inhibit bacteria. Therefore, when a coughing baby consumes tomatoes, it also has anti-inflammatory effects.
