Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a common and highly contagious disease, mainly affecting infants and young children. Various types of enteroviruses can cause it, so the baby's diet is particularly important. Below, I will introduce three common traditional Chinese medicine recipes to help babies clear heat and strengthen the spleen.
Recipe 1: Carrot and Bamboo Cane Soup
Ingredients: 1 carrot, 15g white grass root, 1 section of bamboo cane, 15g raw coix seed. Drink once a day, boil in water and replace tea. This dosage is suitable for children aged 3 to 6, and the amount can be adjusted according to the child's age.
Efficacy: Carrots strengthen the spleen and stomach, clear heat and detoxify, promote eruption, and relieve cough; white grass root cools blood and stops bleeding, clears heat and diuresis; bamboo cane clears heat and relieves irritability; coix seed strengthens the spleen and promotes diuresis. This recipe has the effects of nourishing the lungs and spleen, clearing heat and resolving dampness, and is suitable for children susceptible to hand, foot, and mouth disease, measles, chickenpox, childhood erythema, and influenza.
Recipe 2: Lamp Wick Grass and Chicken Bone Soup
Ingredients: 5 bundles of lamp wick grass, 3g cicada slough, 1 cotton flower, 10g chicken bone grass, 50g lean pork. Boil the soup and drink it.
Efficacy: Lamp wick grass not only has the effect of diuresis, but also clears the heart and reduces heat. Cicada slough can disperse wind-heat and have the effect of promoting eruption and relieving pain. Cotton flower clears heat, removes dampness, relieves heat, and promotes diuresis. Chicken bone grass clears heat and detoxifies. This recipe has the effects of dispersing wind, clearing heat, resolving dampness, and detoxifying.
Recipe 3: Violet Grass and Double Bean Porridge
Ingredients: Violet grass root, mung beans, adzuki beans, glutinous rice, and licorice, all in appropriate amounts. Cook the porridge and take it orally. It is delicious and can prevent hand, foot, and mouth disease.
Efficacy: Violet grass root clears heat and cools blood, promotes eruption, and detoxifies; licorice supplements the middle and benefits qi, clears heat, and detoxifies. This porridge is not only delicious, but also can treat diseases.
