In spring, the weather is warm and cold, and the temperature is unstable. Babies have weaker resistance and are prone to cough and cold. So what should we do when a baby coughs? What kind of herbal medicine can help? Let's take a look at some herbal remedies for baby coughs.
Herbal Remedies for Baby Coughs
Scallion and Glutinous Rice Porridge
Ingredients: 5 segments of thick scallion, 60g glutinous rice, 5 slices of ginger, 5ml rice vinegar.
Directions: Wash the first three ingredients thoroughly and cook them together to make porridge. Add rice vinegar when the porridge is cooked.
Usage: Take it twice a day, and consume it while it's hot.
Therapeutic effects of scallions:
Scallions have a pungent taste and a warm nature. They enter the lung, stomach, and liver meridians, and have a mild spicy and dispersing effect.
They have the functions of expelling cold, promoting yang, detoxifying and killing parasites.
They are mainly used to treat wind-cold colds, headaches, fevers, body aches and paralysis, cold abdominal pain, constipation, sore throat, dysentery, foot edema, breast abscess, painful sores and carbuncles, abdominal pain from intestinal parasites, injuries from falls, fish poisoning, and insect or snake bites.
Nutritional benefits:
Scallions dispel wind and cold, and have a diaphoretic and exterior-releasing effect. However, their diaphoretic effect is relatively weak, so they are mainly used for mild colds or as auxiliary herbs to promote sweating. They are often used in combination with fermented black beans and ginger.
Scallions are warm and pungent, and can promote the circulation of yang qi while dispelling yin cold. When used in combination with dried ginger and aconite, they are suitable for conditions with excessive yin cold and weakened yang qi, such as diarrhea and weak pulse. Scallions can also treat urinary difficulties caused by bladder qi dysfunction, as well as abdominal pain due to cold stagnation. They can be stir-fried and applied externally to the abdomen.
This herb disperses cold, relieves the surface, warms the middle, and stops coughing. It is suitable for acute bronchitis caused by wind-cold. Symptoms include early-stage cough, thin phlegm, headache, nasal congestion, chills, fever, thin white tongue coating, and floating and tight pulse.
Almond Porridge
Ingredients: 10g sweet almonds (peeled and pointed), 50g rice.
Directions: Grind the sweet almonds into a paste, wash the rice, and mix the two ingredients together. Add an appropriate amount of water and boil it. Then simmer it over low heat until the rice is cooked.
Usage: Take it twice a day, as breakfast and dinner. Consume it warm in any desired quantity.
This herb stops coughing and relieves asthma. It is suitable for coughs and asthma. Regular consumption by healthy individuals can prevent illness and strengthen the body.
Sand Ginseng and Jade Bamboo Porridge
Ingredients: 20g sand ginseng, 15g jade bamboo, 100g polished rice, 20g rock sugar.
Directions: Soak the jade bamboo and sand ginseng in water, then wash them thoroughly. Boil them in water, and add the washed polished rice. When the rice is almost cooked, remove the jade bamboo and sand ginseng, and add rock sugar to make porridge.
Usage: Take it twice a day, warm, for 3-4 consecutive days.
This herb nourishes yin, moistens the lungs, stops coughing, and nourishes the stomach. It is suitable for conditions such as hot dry cough with less phlegm, deficient lung qi, long-term cough without phlegm, thirst and dry throat after a fever.
Nutritional benefits of sand ginseng:
Southern sand ginseng has a sweet and slightly bitter taste and a slightly cold nature. It belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. It has a light and gentle nature and can ascend and descend.
It has the functions of clearing the lungs, transforming phlegm, nourishing yin, moistening dryness, and benefiting the stomach and generating fluids.
It is mainly used to treat yin deficiency fever, dry cough due to lung dryness, lung deficiency cough in pulmonary tuberculosis, blood in phlegm, throat paralysis and pain, and thirst due to fluid injury.
Sand ginseng has the effects of nourishing yin and generating fluids, clearing heat and cooling blood. When used in combination with chemotherapy, it is especially effective for cancer patients, particularly those with lung cancer and digestive tract tumors who have yin deficiency with depleted blood, lung yin deficiency, or dryness of body fluids caused by radiotherapy.
