An Old Remedy That the Whole Family Can Use: A Record of an Old Chinese Medicine Doctor

Chapter 3 Happy babies come from health, small family remedies for worry-free pediatrics (2)
On the day I took my nephew over, my grandpa ordered me to go to the pharmacy to take out 10 grams each of mulberry octopus, clove, cinnamon, and night close door, put them in the dryer for drying, and then crush them into powder.Grandpa took the medicated noodles and poured them into the rice wine, carefully stirred them into a paste, then applied it to my nephew's navel, and fixed it with gauze.And patiently tell the child that when he feels like urinating at night, he should stop snoozing and get up immediately to relieve himself. The 6-year-old is already very sensible and nodded obediently.In the first few days, the child still couldn't help wetting the bed at night, and cried sadly when he woke up in the morning.My grandfather and I quickly comforted him, saying that my grandfather's medicine is very effective, as long as you cooperate, you will not wet the bed in a few days.Finally on the ninth day, the child's enuresis was cured.

When my sister came to pick up the child and went home, I found out that my grandfather had cured his son's enuresis. She didn't say anything, but cooked a few delicious dishes for my grandfather.And asked for the prescription, saying that the child of a colleague also has this problem.

[Grandpa said] The first prescription of mulberry octopus can treat kidney deficiency and deficiency of qi and kidney yang; cloves can warm the middle, warm the kidneys, and reduce adverse events; Closing the door at night can nourish the liver and kidney, benefit the lung and yin, dissipate blood stasis and reduce swelling.The combination of these kinds of medicinal materials is the best prescription for treating enuresis in children.In the second prescription, although rice and rice soup have no major medicinal effects, they can fix the medicine well. The interaction of several medicines can cure deficiency of kidney yang, frequent urination due to cold bladder deficiency, and enuresis in children.The medicine cake sends the medicine effect to the child's body through the navel, and the expected effect can be achieved naturally.At the same time, Grandpa also emphasized that children with enuresis often have varying degrees of psychological pressure. At this time, if parents can't guide the children correctly, but reprimand them instead, it will definitely be harmful and useless.If the child has enuresis in children, parents should try to avoid the child's psychological trauma and stimulation.Instead, children should be trained to urinate in a timely and appropriate manner to develop a good habit of urinating before going to bed.

Whooping cough in children is mainly an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by pertussis bacillus infection. It is highly contagious and mostly occurs in young children. The younger the child, the more obvious the disease and symptoms will be. Usually it will cause pneumonia, encephalopathy, etc. Complications.The clinical manifestation is paroxysmal and spasmodic cough, accompanied by crowing-like wheezing. If the child is not properly treated, the condition will last for several months. Therefore, it is called "pertussis" in the market. .

In recent years, my country's medical department has tailored vaccinations for children with pertussis and other epidemic diseases, and the incidence rate has decreased.However, due to the low resistance of children, the current situation of whooping cough is still worrying for many parents.

[Recipe name] Olive pot with rock sugar.

[Ingredients] 60 grams of fresh olives.

[Method] Wash the olives, mash them, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, pour 2 bowls of water, and cook until there is about 1 bowl of water left.Remove the soup dregs and swallow slowly, 1 dose per day.

[Nurse said] The neighbor next door gave birth to a cute baby boy, but at night, I saw the whole family running around in the house, and the baby coughed from time to time.One night, Grandpa couldn't bear it any longer, and came to the neighbor's house "uninvited".Seeing the baby coughing continuously, his face turned red from coughing, Grandpa felt distressed when he saw it.After looking, hearing and asking, it was determined that the little boy had whooping cough, which is common among children.Since the child is a breastfeeding baby, the condition has a great impact and is considered serious.Based on the baby boy's runny nose and mild fever, Grandpa judged that the baby was only in the early stage of whooping cough, so he hurried home, took some olives and rock sugar, and made a home remedy directly at the neighbor's house.

Grandpa mashed the olives, added a bowl of clear water, boiled, then added a small amount of rock sugar, boiled for another 10 minutes, then took it out to the mother of the baby boy, and asked her to feed it to the baby boy.After the baby boy ate, the intermittent cough was longer, the intensity of the persistent cough became lower, and his complexion gradually calmed down.The parents were very happy when they saw this, and hurriedly asked what the grandfather did just now, and whether it was some kind of magic medicine.Grandpa spread out his palm, and the parents were taken aback when they saw it. It turned out that grandpa was only holding a common olive in his hand.Grandpa said that rock sugar has the function of moistening the throat and pharynx, and olives can nourish yin and regulate the breath of the spleen and stomach. Taking more of the two can effectively relieve cough and asthma, and prevent and treat whooping cough in children.

[Grandpa said] Traditional Chinese medicine believes that whooping cough belongs to the scope of "epidemic cough" in traditional medicine, and it should be treated in stages and symptoms.In the initial stage of whooping cough, children will have runny nose, sneezing, slight fever, and then cough, heavy fluid and sputum.If the child has a strong constitution and excessive heat in the lungs and stomach, symptoms of red face, red lips, thick phlegm, thin yellow tongue coating, floating and rapid pulse will appear; children with weak constitution will have pale complexion, pale lips and tongue, thin phlegm, and rapid pulse. Slippery and feeble.If the child in the early cough stage does not receive proper treatment, he or she will enter the cough pause stage. The child will cough frequently, and the cough will be more severe at night. Red, a high-pitched roar when inhaling, and after repeated coughing, the child will vomit or spit out saliva, and the cough will be slightly gentle after continuous coughing.If it goes on for a long time, the child will have dry mouth, red tongue, yellow fur, and damage to liver and kidney.Some children even have bloody sputum or subconjunctival hemorrhage, which cannot be ignored.After several months of coughing, the child will gradually enter the recovery period, coughing with less phlegm or dry cough without phlegm, and the cough at night is more serious than that during the day.

In addition to cooking olives with rock sugar when the child is sick, parents can also do more diet therapy that is suitable for regulating the spleen and kidneys and helping children improve their resistance to influenza and cough.For example, squeeze fresh celery juice, add appropriate amount of honey to take it, or use fresh corn silk to boil juice for children to drink, all of which are very effective in preventing and treating children's cough, combined with regular work and rest and a balanced diet, It can effectively reduce the risk of coughing diseases such as whooping cough in children.

The nutrients absorbed by the human body mainly come from the digestion and absorption of our spleen and stomach. The stomach is in charge of receiving and the spleen is in charge of transportation and transformation. That is to say, only by eating food and going through digestion and absorption can the nutrients in the food Transformed into the energy and nutrition that can supply the human body, in order to develop normally, the complexion is ruddy and shiny.However, the digestive system of children is relatively weaker than that of adults. Therefore, in terms of diet, if they encounter indigestible food or irregular diet, it will cause disorders of spleen and stomach digestion in children, resulting in yellow complexion and emaciation.

From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, according to different constitutions of children, there will be different prescriptions for treating children with sallow complexion and emaciation.

【Remedy [-]】Atractylodes tangerine peel soup.

[Applicable people] Children with poor spleen and stomach movement.The main manifestations are sometimes anorexia reaction, accompanied by belching, nausea, abdominal distension and other symptoms, and there are many indigestible substances in the stool.

[Medicinal materials] 9 grams of Atractylodes atractylodes, 4.5 grams of tangerine peel, 9 grams of Citrus aurantium, 6 grams of gallinaceous gold, 9 grams of grain buds, and 9 grams of malt.

[Method] Decoction.

[Remedy [-]] Fuling Mountain Decoction.

【Applicable people】Children with weak spleen and stomach.It is mainly aimed at children who are physically thin and eat less daily. Most of the children have symptoms such as pale complexion, lack of energy, and sticky stools.

[Medicinal materials] 12 grams of Poria cocos, 15 grams of yam, 9 grams of fried Atractylodes macrocephala, 9 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, and 9 grams of Divine Comedy.

[Method] Decoction.

[Remedy [-]] Shashen soup.

[Applicable people] Children with stomach yin deficiency.The main manifestations are sluggish expression, excessive drinking of liquid beverages, dry stool, hot hands, feet, heart, etc.The child is usually irritable and has poor sleep quality.

[Medicinal materials] 9 grams of Radix Ginseng, 9 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 9 grams of Dendrobium, 12 grams of Hemp Seed, 6 grams of Hemp Seed, and 9 grams of Guya.

[Method] Decoction.

[The nurse said] One day, I went to the kindergarten to pick up my nephew from school, and saw his little classmate was pale and thin, so I took out the cheesecake I was going to eat for my little nephew, thinking that the child’s family conditions might not be very good, nutrition Insufficient absorption leads to thin body, sallow and emaciated complexion.As a result, when I handed the cake over, he rolled his eyes and said that he would not eat anything except the cheesecake from the most famous bakery in the city.I was dumbfounded.My nephew whispered to me embarrassingly, that the little classmate had almost the best family conditions in the whole school, and basically he would not eat anything that was not the best.

I was surprised, why is his face so dark and yellow, and his body so thin?Later, the other party's parents came in a famous car, and I went up to communicate with his parents with my confusion, only to find out that his parents had been troubled by this problem.So I showed my little classmate to grandpa.The grandfather laughed when he saw it, pinched the nose of the little classmate and said that he was a picky eater, and then prescribed a cangzhu tangerine peel soup for his parents, and taught the parents how to solve the problem of picky eaters and uneven nutrition in their children.

Not long after, I went to pick up my little nephew again. The little classmate was already full of energy and plump.

[Grandpa said] In this era, children basically do not suffer from lack of food in terms of diet, but there are still many children who appear yellow and thin when they are young. No matter what supplements their parents give them, they seem to be unable to absorb them. .Many parents mistakenly think that this is caused by indigestion or insufficient nutrition, but in fact, there are many reasons for children's sallow complexion.For example, unrestrained diet, not eating staple food on time, or eating too many snacks will affect the function of the spleen and stomach of the child, resulting in dysfunction of the spleen and stomach, causing weakness of the spleen and stomach. Over time, the child is prone to symptoms of yellow complexion and emaciation.There is also nutritional imbalance, which is also one of the culprits of children's sallow complexion.Because children's sense of gastrointestinal digestion is worse than that of adults, they often eat too much, eat too much, or eat too much warming and tonic food, and their spleen and stomach can't digest it, so they don't know.If this happens for a long time, the imbalance of the spleen and stomach will lead to a sallow complexion and the inability to absorb nutrients. When the parents see this, they don't know why and continue to add supplements to the child, which backfires and increases the burden on the child's stomach.In fact, children with weak spleen and stomach, it is best to give children more porridge every day.If you drink any kind of porridge made from yam, poria cocos, and barley every day, it can have the effect of nourishing the spleen and strengthening the stomach. Combined with traditional Chinese medicine, it can radically cure the child's sallow complexion and emaciation.

From the perspective of modern medicine, bronchitis in children refers to the inflammation of the bronchi in the body, which is usually caused by viral infections such as common cold and influenza, and may also be caused by bacterial infections inhaled from the respiratory system. A common acute upper respiratory infection.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main reason for the treatment of bronchitis in children is the feeling of exogenous pathogens and damage to the lung and spleen.The lungs are the canopy of the internal organs, the so-called "lungs govern the breath, and then respond to the fur".Children are affected by the wind and cold, affected by the skin texture, and then enter the lung meridian.Mild cough, severe dyspnea.Once the lungs are injured in the cold, symptoms of coughing with profuse phlegm and saliva will appear; if the lungs are injured in the warm, the cough will be obstructed and sluggish.Those who are injured in the cold will have diarrhea and stagnation; those who are injured in the warm should start with moistening the lungs, relieving cough, and laxative.

[Remedy [-]] Peanut snacks.

[Ingredients] 30 grams of peanuts.

[Method] Soak in boiling water for a while, peel off the coat, and give it to children in two divided doses for several days, it can moisten the lungs and relieve cough.

[Remedy [-]] Walnut ginger.

[Ingredients] 2 walnuts, 3 slices of ginger.

[Method] Shell the walnuts and take the kernels. Before the children go to bed every night, take out the walnut kernels and ginger and chew them together.

[Remedy [-]] Sydney pear soup with scallions.

[Ingredients] 5 shallots, 1 pear, 10 grams of sugar.

[Method] After washing the ingredients, fry the shallots and pears in water, and add sugar when it is about to finish.Eating pears and drinking juice can be used for chronic bronchitis of exogenous wind-heat type.

[Nurse said] The child suffers from bronchitis, which hurts the child and hurts the parents.One day, a couple walked back and forth in front of the outpatient clinic with their child in their arms. They said that they had consulted many doctors and went to the hospital for treatment.Seeing that the parents were so uncomfortable, I stepped forward and asked the parents to take the child to see the grandfather.But the parents flatly refused, saying that the child was too young to take medicine indiscriminately.Seeing that the parents were worried, I took out the case of my grandfather's treatment of whooping cough, so that the couple could feel a little more at ease.

In the end, the couple saw that the child had a severe cough and couldn't be cured, so they went anyway.Grandpa looked at it and said it wasn't a big deal. The main reason was that Western medicine focused on dealing with bacteria in the child's respiratory tract, and the anti-inflammatory and detoxifying drugs were too effective, which only hurt the child's lungs and spleen.To treat bronchitis in children, in traditional Chinese medicine, the methods of moistening the lungs, relieving cough and internally regulating breath can be used.When the couple heard that Western medicine would cause side effects to the child, they became afraid. Grandpa immediately reassured the couple that the child is young and weak, so it is not necessary to use the traditional Chinese medicine formula for treatment.Grandpa wrote a few folk recipes for the couple, and the recipes are just some ingredients such as walnut kernels, pears, and scallions.Grandpa said that there is no need to use too much medicine to moisten the lungs of the child. Since the child has a constitution of internal heat and external cold, so as long as the child is stewed with onion whiskers and pear soup in the next few days, it will be fine.Sydney is slightly cold in nature, which can relieve the dryness and heat in the child's body. It is very effective in dealing with chronic bronchitis when stewed together with shallots.

Sure enough, a few days later, the couple came to thank grandpa again, saying that the child's bronchitis was healed, and he was crying loudly, not as breathless as before.

[Grandpa said] Bronchitis in children is mainly caused by cough, and cough in children can be divided into three types: cold, heat, and deficiency of both qi and yin.Children who suffer from cold and cough are mainly affected by wind evil, the first offender is the lung and stomach, and the lung governs qi, affecting breathing.If the lungs are invaded by cold qi, the qi movement will be blocked, breathing will be hindered, and coughing will occur.Therefore, you should eat more walnuts and ginger to nourish the lungs and fight against external evils.Children who suffer from cough due to heat, because the spleen and stomach are weak, the liver fire is hyperactive, and the heart meridian accumulates heat, which hinders the lung qi from descending and descending, which can also cause coughing.Eat more scallion pear soup, which can nourish the lungs and calm the fire, and is very effective for heat-type chronic bronchitis.Children with both qi and yin deficiency, due to insufficient endowment, weak body, and unhealed cough due to external factors, will develop internal injury cough and bronchitis.In this regard, you should eat more peanuts to warm and nourish without dryness, so as to make up for symptoms such as lung yin depletion or lung-qi deficiency in children.

Pneumonia in children is one of the most life-threatening diseases in children, and it is also a very common disease in children.The younger the child, the more complications will appear, resulting in more complicated disease and more difficult treatment.According to the course of the disease, it is divided into acute pneumonia, persistent pneumonia and chronic pneumonia.According to pathogens, it is divided into bacterial pneumonia, mycoplasma pneumonia, fungal pneumonia, and viral pneumonia.Pneumonia in children mostly occurs at the turn of spring and summer or when the seasons change from winter to spring, because the air humidity is high at this time, pathogens are more likely to spread, and children's resistance is insufficient, resulting in a high incidence of pneumonia. Parents should pay special attention to this.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pneumonia in children can be prevented through daily diet. A balanced diet, combined with special diet therapy, can enhance children's own resistance during the high incidence of pneumonia.

[Remedy [-]] Lily Codonopsis porridge.

[Medicinal materials] Codonopsis 30 grams, lily 15-20 grams, japonica rice 100 grams, a little rock sugar.

[Method] First boil the lily and japonica rice into porridge, then fry the Codonopsis pilosula over a slow fire, take its juice, add the concoction and rock sugar to the porridge made of lily japonica rice.2 times a day, morning and evening.

[Remedy [-]] Dandelion and reed root porridge.

[Medicinal materials] 30 grams of dandelion, 40 grams of reed root, 10 grams of almonds, and 60 grams of japonica rice.

[Method] Boil the japonica rice into a gruel, then decoct the dandelion, reed root and almond, take the concoction, remove the dregs, and then add the concoction to the japonica rice porridge for seasoning.Once a day, it can be used as a staple food for children for 1 days.

[Nurse said] My colleague has always been listless and sluggish at work recently, and there are many mistakes and omissions in her work. I don't understand it for a while, because she has always been a meticulous person.Out of concern, I asked her how she was doing.She is a novice mother, and her child just turned one year old, and she fell ill for a long time, which kept her and her husband unable to sleep at night and worried about the child's condition day and night.

I asked her about the symptoms of the child, and she said that the child had pneumonia in children. Because the child was young and his resistance was low, the disease was repeated and complicated. The feeling of prescribing the right medicine.I have taken both traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, but with western medicine, the child will lack energy and fatigue. My colleagues are worried that the medicine is too strong and has side effects.Because her child's physique is relatively weak, it is a bit difficult for her to take western medicine.I tried traditional Chinese medicine, and the side effects were less, but the child thought it was bitter and refused to take the medicine. If he drank it, he would soon feel nauseated and spit out the medicine. Seeing the child's pneumonia condition, she and her husband didn't know what to do.

I suggested that she go to see her grandpa. Grandpa saw that the child had a bad spleen and stomach. In addition to the impact of pneumonia, the blood in the body was weakened, and it was more difficult to take medication than normal children.So grandpa gave her a recipe, which was very simple. It was porridge with lily and dangshen. She asked her to take about 30 grams of lily and dangshen, and make porridge with japonica rice, which was used to replace the child's rice paste and porridge. Look.As a result, in about a few days, my colleague looked radiant. It turned out that the child’s illness was cured, and the child regained his vitality. With the addition of Lily Codonopsis Porridge, it has the effects of nourishing blood, nourishing qi, clearing away heat and detoxification, and now the child even sleeps better than before. Fragrant.

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