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

Chapter 5 Happy babies come from health, small family remedies for worry-free pediatrics (4)
[Grandpa said] "Disease enters through the mouth", for children with weak awareness of hygiene and weak resistance, it can be said to be very noteworthy.The virus can easily invade the child's body from the mouth and nose, causing fever, headache, cough, runny nose and other symptoms; if the virus invades the tongue, the child will develop herpes in the mouth, and the child will feel pain in the mouth, They can’t express themselves, so they feel like they don’t want to eat, and they are prone to drooling; if the evil poison invades the limbs, herpes will develop on the children’s hands and feet; if the evil poison further affects the heart, lungs and other viscera, it may cause shortness of breath, Cough, dizziness, convulsions and other critical symptoms, severe children may be combined with myocarditis, pulmonary edema, encephalitis, meningitis and other symptoms, resulting in death.The impact of hand, foot and mouth disease cannot be ignored. Although the medicinal materials in this recipe are simple, they have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxification, invigorating the spleen and removing dampness, and are suitable for the prevention of susceptible people.During the changing seasons and the high incidence of hand-foot-mouth disease and influenza, give children more of this recipe. On the one hand, it can prevent the newly invaded evil poison in its infancy, and on the other hand, it can also improve children's resistance to the virus.

According to the survey, the causes of children's short stature are complex. Apart from various congenital causes such as genetics, diseases, and lack of gonad secretion, the main reason why normal children are shorter than their peers is food.The quality and quantity of food eaten during childhood are important reasons that affect the child's development and height.If you want your child to grow taller, you must try your best to ensure that your child's diet is adequate and nutritious.

The so-called "short stature" in society means that the current height of a child is about 5 cm lower than that of children of the same age, sex, and region, or among a hundred children, the height ranks among the bottom three. It is short stature.It should be reminded that when parents find that their children are half a head to a head behind their classmates, they must be more vigilant, and they should not simply think that their children are just "growing taller late", so as not to pay attention to their children's height growth.The child's height should be started from an early age. In the kindergarten period, once the child's height is found to be behind, it is necessary to cooperate with the diet and add more calcium-rich ingredients to increase the possibility of the child's height.Because the height of many children is not enough, if it is not due to congenital reasons, it is caused by the unbalanced nutrition of the day after tomorrow, or the lack of necessary nutrients for bone development.As long as the nutrition is balanced in childhood, the embarrassment of short stature in the future can be avoided.

[Recipe name] Stewed pig's feet with soybeans.

[Ingredients] One trotter, some soybeans.

[Method] The first step is to soak the soybeans in water first, and the swelling can be completed in about three hours.The second step is to boil the water, put the pig's trotters in water and blanch them, change the water [-] to [-] times repeatedly, and boil again to remove the fishy smell of the pig's trotters.The third step is to put the pig's trotters, soybeans, appropriate amount of soy sauce, green onion and ginger into the pot, pour in water, simmer for about an hour, and eat the pig's trotters when the meat becomes soft.It can be used as a meal food, and it is no problem to eat more under the premise of gastrointestinal digestion.

[Nurse said] In the community, when I take a walk in the evening, I always see a seven or eight-year-old boy doing active exercise with his father. During the exercise, he never stops. I can't help admiring the child's perseverance.Because generally speaking, although children are active when they are seven or eight years old, they prefer to watch cartoons and play with toys at home. How can this child be so conscious of exercising after dinner every night?
As a result, one night, I saw the child squatting next to the fitness equipment and crying, and the father was teaching the child with his hands on his hips, saying that if the boy did not exercise, he would become short in the future. , this size is not considered short, so don't be too demanding.

In the end, the father actually said that the child was ten years old, and he was only this size, and he was half a head shorter than his classmates, so he couldn't do without strengthening exercises.I took a closer look at the child and felt that his body should be fine, just a little short, and also a little thin, with not much flesh.The child continued to cry and said that he didn't want to run and wanted to go home.

Seeing this, I persuaded my father to bring his son to grandpa's house.

Grandpa looked at it and said that the child's short stature is due to genetics and acquired factors, as long as he pays attention to his diet, cooperates with appropriate exercise, and strengthens his physique.The father listened attentively, wanting to hear some shocking recipes, but the grandfather asked him and his wife to make more soy stewed pig's trotters for the children to eat.

Half a year later, I rarely saw boys anymore. One night, I saw a child playing downstairs, happily, and after a closer look, it turned out to be that boy. He had grown at least 10 centimeters taller.

He told me that after listening to his grandfather’s words, his mother made him braised pork trotters with soybeans four or five times a week, and the combination of trotters and soybeans was delicious and sweet. He especially liked it, and often even drank the soup. Even his parents couldn't compete with him, so he grew a lot.

[Grandpa said] In the traditional Chinese food culture, there is an old saying that "five grains are suitable for nourishment, but losing beans is bad", which shows that since ancient times, in the minds of Chinese people, the nutritional value of beans is very high.Beans contain high protein content and good quality, and their nutritional value is close to that of animal protein. They are the best vegetable protein and rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium and other inorganic salts. , high-magnesium, and low-sodium foods are "popular dishes" on the Chinese table.The pig's trotter, another protagonist in the folk prescription, is also familiar to people.Trotters are helpful for patients with frequent limb fatigue, leg cramps, numbness, gastrointestinal bleeding, hemorrhagic shock and ischemic encephalopathy; it is rich in bone collagen, which can maintain blood vessel elasticity, strengthen the brain and prevent the formation of fatty liver It can help adolescents grow and slow down the rate of osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly women.

In the hot summer season, many infants and young children will have a long-term fever disease. In medicine, this is called "summer fever", also known as "summer fever".This disease mostly occurs in infants and young children aged 6 months to 3 years old, mainly because the nervous system development of infants and young children in this age group is not perfect, the function of body temperature regulation is poor, and the overall sweating function is not perfect. If it is not smooth from time to time, the heat dissipation will be slower, and it will be difficult to adapt to the hot environment in summer, which will easily cause persistent fever.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that young children with poor physical fitness often suffer from summer heat syndrome.Parents don't need to panic too much and go to the doctor in a hurry.In fact, starting from the child's daily diet, strengthening the diet and fully promoting digestion is the key to strengthening the child's physique and building a healthy body.Moreover, home diet therapy for summer heat is also very simple. For example, adding white peony root, Chinese yam, lotus seeds and other ingredients to lean meat soup and chicken soup can promote fluid and strengthen the spleen, help children digest, and warm up children's physique.

[Remedy [-]] Lotus leaf winter melon porridge.

[Ingredients] 1~2 fresh lotus leaves, appropriate amount of winter melon.

[Method] Wash the lotus leaves and add water, decoct about [-] ml, pour out the lotus leaf juice and filter for later use.Cut wax gourd into small pieces, pour lotus leaf juice and some japonica rice into it, cook it into gruel, and add some white sugar.

[Recipe [-]] Yam cocoon porridge.

[Ingredients] 10-12 silkworm cocoons, several red dates, 50 grams of yam, 50 grams of glutinous rice, and an appropriate amount of sugar.

[Method] Wash the silkworm cocoons first, decoct about [-]ml of soup, filter out the soup dregs of the silkworm cocoons, and keep the juice, then put the pitted red dates, yams and japonica rice into the silkworm cocoon soup, and cook it into gruel You can.

[The nurse said] Once, I ran into a frequent customer in the emergency room of the hospital for several days. It's getting hot again.Therefore, as soon as the child had a fever, she would hold the child for drips.

I touched the child's forehead, and it didn't look like he had a fever. Then I asked the mother about the child's symptoms. She said that the child had a fever all over his body, but he had no symptoms such as coughing or runny nose.

I saw that my mother carried her child to the emergency room of the hospital every now and then, and it was not an option. The point was that a child who was a few months old would not be able to take it anymore, so I brought her to see my grandfather.

Grandpa looked at the child's eyeballs and tongue, and said that the child did not simply have a fever, but suffered from heatstroke in children.Summer heat syndrome mostly occurs in breastfeeding infants, mainly because the infant’s own body temperature regulation is not perfect, and the summer weather temperature is too high, it is easy to break the temperature balance in the child’s body, and he cannot adjust it by himself. There is a whole body fever situation, this kind of summer heat disease should be dealt with from the perspective of food therapy and health care, even if you take an intravenous drip every day, it can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, because the intravenous drip is only to stimulate the temporary balance of the body's regulatory system through the power of the medicine, and the fundamental The mechanism of sex regulation remains unresolved.

So the grandfather asked the child's mother to cook more lotus leaf winter melon porridge or lotus leaf winter melon water for the child to drink. After the winter melon water was cooked, put it into a feeding bottle and let the child drink it instead of water. After drinking for a few days, the heat syndrome will be eliminated.

[Grandpa said] The above two soups and porridges are very effective in reducing heat and relieving heat. Winter melon clears heat and promotes body fluids, diures water to quench thirst, and lotus leaf clears heat and relieves heat. It is suitable for children with persistent fever, thirst, and oliguria; while silkworm cocoon It can quench thirst and detoxify. The two ingredients of yam and red dates are "good hands" for invigorating the spleen and appetizing. It is suitable for children with low fever, fatigue, decreased appetite, and loose stools.At the same time, grandpa warned parents that if a child is suffering from summer heat, do not give the child anti-inflammatory and antipyretic drugs, because the anti-inflammatory and anti-fever drugs have strong properties and hurt the spleen and stomach. The use of such drugs will cause the child's physical fitness to become worse and worse, thus causing a vicious circle of illness.Grandfather suggested that parents, in addition to the above two dietary treatments, children with severe heat can also be properly treated with traditional Chinese medicine, combined with traditional Chinese medicine for clearing away heat and detoxification, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the lungs to relieve the condition.

Crying is an instinctive reaction of infants and young children. Children from zero to three years old often use crying to express their emotions because their ability to speak and express has not yet been fully developed.Generally speaking, there are many situations that cause children to cry at night.For example, if the diaper is wet, the little butt is uncomfortable; the air in the room is stuffy, and the child has difficulty breathing; or the child wears a lot of clothes, and the skin is uncomfortable when sweating and wet; or the child is covered too much. Feeling heat; hunger, thirst, disease pain, etc., these are all normal physiological reactions, and crying in these situations is normal.

The so-called "night cry" means that the baby is doing as usual during the day, there is nothing wrong with the physiological care, there is no abnormality found in the physical examination, no disease, and no physiological needs of hunger or thirst, but there will be bursts of crying or continuous crying at night , which is commonly referred to as "Night Crying Man".Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main cause of night crying is heat in the heart and lungs, crying due to irritability, deficiency of the spleen and stomach, and crying due to cold pain; or frightened during the day, crying due to fright, etc.

[Remedy [-]] Lily porridge.

[Ingredients] 50 grams of lily, 30 grams of lotus seeds, 100 grams of glutinous rice, and a little brown sugar.

[Method] Wash the lotus seeds and lilies, put them in a pot, add a proper amount of water, put clean glutinous rice, cook the three ingredients into gruel, and then add an appropriate amount of brown sugar.Special reminder, lily, lotus seeds and glutinous rice need to be boiled to better exert their efficacy and enhance the taste.

[Remedy [-]] Longan porridge.

[Ingredients] 20 grams of dried longan meat, 4 red dates, 60 grams of japonica rice.

[Method] Wash the longan meat, red dates, japonica rice and other materials and put them together in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water to cook a gruel, then add an appropriate amount of sugar according to personal preference, and then separate the jujube pits and longan meat dregs, etc. Ready to eat.Longan porridge itself is slightly sweet, and the amount of sugar can be reduced as appropriate.

[Remedy [-]] Cicada Mai Jujube Soup.

[Ingredients] 2 grams of cicada slough, 6 grams of floating wheat, 3 grams of Uncaria, 3 jujubes, 2 grams of licorice, and an appropriate amount of sugar.

[Method] Wash the above materials, put them in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, wait until the jujube and other ingredients are slightly rotten, then separate the dregs, add an appropriate amount of sugar, and drink the soup.This soup has a slight taste of medicinal herbs and is suitable for children over three years old.

[Remedy [-]] Scallion, ginger and brown sugar drink.

[Ingredients] 3 green onions, 3 slices of ginger, and 15 grams of brown sugar.

[Method] Cut the scallion root into strips and put them in water together with ginger slices, boil in boiling water for about 3~4 minutes, add some brown sugar to taste, and then drink.

[Nurse said] One day at about 10 o'clock in the middle of the night, someone came to grandpa's house and knocked on the door. It was a young couple. Grandpa thought it was an emergency, so he answered the door quickly.The couple said that the child suffered from a strange disease, and the grandfather asked what the strange disease was.The couple said that the child was bewitched.Bewitched?Grandpa became anxious when he heard it.

The couple said that the child was very strange, as if possessed by an evil spirit. During the day, he was doing well, laughing more and less crying, but at night he kept crying, sometimes crying so hard that he couldn't breathe, and his voice became hoarse. The parents felt uncomfortable as if they were worried.The couple hurried to find grandpa to prescribe some prescriptions to calm fear and ward off evil spirits.

Grandpa looked at the child, heard the child cry a few times in front of him, then looked at the child's eyeballs, smiled and said, this is not some kind of evil spirit, not at all, it is just a kind of disease called "night sickness". Cry syndrome ".Nocturnal crying is a disease often suffered by infants and young children. It is characterized by normal daytime but constant crying at night.Grandpa said that there is no need to be afraid of night crying, and there is no need to panic, as long as a little conditioning can be cured.

Because night crying is mainly caused by the child's heart and lung deficiency and coldness of the spleen and stomach, the grandfather suggested that the couple go home and give the child some ginger and scallion brown sugar soup or cicada wheat jujube soup, so there is no need to look around for evil spirits. prescription.In addition, the grandfather also reminded the couple that as novice parents, let them pay more attention to the micro-expression of the child. Many times, the child feels stuffy when wearing too much clothes, or the indoor air is not smooth, and the child feels suffocated and will cry.Wearing too much clothes and closing the doors and windows tightly is a common problem of many novice parents. They are afraid that their children will get sick if they get windy, and they are also afraid that their children will catch cold if they wear too little clothes.In fact, everything is based on the body temperature of the child's surface. If you can feel the warmth of the child's palm while holding the child's small hand, it proves that the child is warm enough.Because the temperature regulation of children is different from that of adults, adults should not measure their children's body temperature by their own standards.

[Grandfather Said] Night cry syndrome will have a great impact on children's work, rest and diet. The above sweet drinks and herbal diets are mild in nature and suitable for children with different symptoms.Lily is slightly cold in nature and can moisten the lungs, relieve cough, clear the heart and soothe the nerves. It is also rich in starch, protein, fat, calcium, iron and other ingredients. It can be cooked with glutinous rice into gruel and let the children eat it before going to bed. It can moisten the lungs and clear the heart. Soothe the nerves and control the effect of children crying at night.The longan meat in the second recipe is sweet and flat, rich in protein and vitamins.There has always been a saying in traditional Chinese medicine that longan meat is a product that "maintains the evil spirits of the five internal organs, calms the mind, strengthens the soul after long-term service, and is smart", which shows that longan meat has been the top grade of tonics in Chinese medicine since ancient times. Cooking jujube and japonica rice together can calm the nerves and calm convulsions, and relieve night crying in children.In the third recipe, the cicada slough is sweet and flat, and has the effect of relieving wind and convulsions. It has always been a commonly used medicine for infants; materials such as Uncaria and floating wheat have the functions of calming the liver and calming convulsions, nourishing the heart and calming the nerves; Nourishes the blood and nourishes the spleen, clears the fire from the heart, boils several ingredients together into water, and drinks it on time once a day, it will have a good effect of calming and calming the nerves. If you keep drinking it for [-] to [-] weeks, it will cure night crying in children.

Aphthous aphtha in infants is a problem that we should pay attention to. Aphthous aphtha is a common disease in children, especially infants and young children.Children should be checked frequently after birth. For premature babies with congenital deficiencies or chronically ill children, especially children with indigestion and diarrhea, it is necessary to check the oral cavity for white scales or the tongue, the mucous membranes on both sides of the buccal, and the inside of the lips. , gingiva, and pharynx of the palate with or without sores.If the child's mouth has saliva flowing down, has a slight odor, and the lips are everted, congested and bright red, and the child's mouth has a burning and tingling sensation, it is Mikou.

There are many causes of aphthous ulcers, and the condition can be mild or severe. However, no matter what kind of aphthous sores, the affected children will reduce their appetite due to oral discomfort. The mild ones only affect the intake of milk and food, and the severe ones can be severe. Symptoms of general discomfort appear, so once a child is found to be suffering from aphthous disease, parents should treat and care for it in time, and take precautions according to different causes.

[Recipe name] Bamboo Leaf Wick Milk.

[Ingredients] 6 grams of light bamboo leaves, 1.5 grams of rush grass.

[Method] Wash the bamboo leaves and rushes, put them in a pot, add water, and cook with water.Take about 10 ml of juice from the dregs, mix it with the milk that is usually fed, and then give it to the baby.Whenever breastfeeding, you can add an appropriate amount of bamboo wick milk.

[The nurse said] A mother brought her child to her grandfather and said that the baby had just turned three years old. Recently, the child often pointed to her mouth and said "it hurts". Later, the mother found a milky white ulcer on the wall of her mouth.When the mother saw it, she remembered that this white spot often appeared in the mouth of the child when she was a child. In the past, the child was young and could not speak. The mother thought it was milk stains and ignored it. Now that the child can speak, she told the mother that there was a white spot in the mouth. Vitiligo can be painful.After that, every two or three months, a yellow ulcer would develop in the child's mouth, and soon he recovered.Although it could heal on its own, the mother was still worried, so she took her to see a doctor, but the doctor couldn't tell the reason why the white spots on the child's mouth were not cured, so he brought the child here.

The grandfather looked at the child and said that the child had a mouth sore, and he should drink more of the folk prescription of bamboo wick milk.Traditional Chinese medicine believes that children with aphthous ulcers are related to low immune function, lack of vitamins or trace elements such as zinc and iron.Therefore, parents should give their children more bamboo-leaf wick milk, and then reasonably match the child's diet in normal times. In addition to meat and eggs, eat more vegetables and fruits, which can effectively improve the child's immunity and reduce recurrence.

[Grandpa said] There are many and complicated reasons for aphthous ulcers in children, but generally speaking, there are three major aspects: accumulated heat in the spleen and stomach, rising fire in the heart, and rising fire from deficiency.Patients with spleen and stomach heat-accumulating aphthous ulcers are suitable to choose ingredients that can clear away heat, detoxify, and relieve fire;According to the different situations of heat, cold, deficiency and excess in children, parents should give children medicines in a targeted manner.Among them, the above-mentioned ingredients such as bamboo leaves and rushes are mild in nature, clear away heat and calm dryness, and have the effect of calming and slowing down heart fire, virtual fire, and accumulated heat in the spleen and stomach. It is recommended that parents cook more.

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