Vegetables contain non-digestible components such as cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, and pectin, which can prevent or reduce the absorption of cholesterol. Therefore, vegetables are essential in our healthy diet, and the same goes for babies. Below, we will introduce several vegetables that are most nutritious for babies.
1. Lotus root
【Taste and Meridian Tropism】Sweet in taste, cold in nature, enters the heart, spleen, and stomach meridians.
【Method of consumption】Boiled or made into medicinal food, such as lotus root porridge. This ingredient contains starch, protein, asparagine, vitamin C, etc.
【Functions】Nourishes the stomach, nourishes Yin and blood, and promotes wound healing and diarrhea relief.
【Indications】Loss of appetite, fever with thirst, vomiting blood, minor bleeding, hot urine, etc.
2. Garlic
【Taste and Meridian Tropism】Spicy in taste, warm in nature, enters the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians.
【Method of consumption】Decoction for internal consumption, can also be eaten raw. Dosage: 6-15 grams.
【Functions】Strengthens the stomach, relieves stagnation, detoxifies, and kills parasites.
【Indications】Indigestion, cold and painful abdomen, dysentery, whooping cough, carbuncle and swelling, tinea, and snake bites.
3. Papaya
【Taste and Meridian Tropism】Sour in taste, warm in nature, enters the liver and spleen meridians.
【Method of consumption】Decoction for internal consumption or made into dishes. Dosage: 6-9 grams.
【Functions】Harmonizes the stomach, removes dampness, and soothes the liver and tendons.
【Indications】Edema, vomiting, and diarrhea.
4. Winter melon
【Taste and Meridian Tropism】Sweet and tasteless, cool in nature, enters the lung, large intestine, and small intestine meridians.
【Method of consumption】Internal consumption as a decoction, cooked or crushed for juice, or made into medicinal food, such as winter melon porridge. This ingredient contains protein, sugars, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, various vitamins, etc. Dosage: 60-120 grams.
【Functions】Promotes diuresis, relieves phlegm, clears heat, and detoxifies.
【Indications】Edema, bloating, beriberi, coughing and wheezing, heatstroke, restlessness, and dysentery.
5. Taro
【Taste and Meridian Tropism】Sweet and spicy in taste, neutral in nature, enters the intestine and kidney meridians.
【Method of consumption】Decoction for internal consumption or made into medicinal food, such as taro porridge. Dosage: 6-120 grams. This ingredient contains starch, protein, lipids, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc., and is rich in vitamin B1 and vitamin B2.
【Functions】Relieves stagnation and dissolves masses.
【Indications】Abdominal masses, edema, psoriasis, burns, and scalds.
6. Chinese chives
【Taste and Meridian Tropism】Spicy in taste, warm in nature, enters the liver, stomach, and kidney meridians.
【Method of consumption】Boiled and consumed, or stir-fried with eggs as a dish. Dosage: 60-120 grams.
【Functions】Warms the middle, promotes qi circulation, disperses blood stasis, and removes toxins.
【Indications】Stomach discomfort, chest pain, vomiting blood, and urinary blood.
7. Chinese cabbage
【Taste】Spicy and sweet, neutral in nature.
【Method of consumption】Boiled or juiced for drinking.
【Functions】Relieves gas, stimulates appetite, and clears dampness and heat.
【Indications】Indigestion, heat-toxin swelling.
8. Mustard greens
【Taste】Spicy in taste, warm in nature. Enters the lung and stomach meridians.
【Method of consumption】Decoction for internal consumption or crushed for juice, or made into medicinal food, such as mustard green porridge.
【Functions】Promotes qi circulation, transforms phlegm, warms the middle, and dispels cold.
【Indications】Cold accumulation in the stomach, cough with phlegm, bloating.
