Wind heat cold belongs to a type of cold, and for children, their physical resistance is relatively weak, making them prone to catching a cold. If children are not careful about catching a cold caused by wind heat, it is recommended to treat it through dietary therapy to avoid the side effects of taking medication. So, what are the dietary methods for children with wind heat and cold?
1. Shuanghua Hongguo Drink
Ingredients: 30g honeysuckle, 15g chrysanthemum, 10g hawthorn, 30g honey.
Preparation: Soak hawthorn in hot water for 30 minutes, add honeysuckle and chrysanthemum, stir fry over high heat with water for 3 minutes, filter, mix with honey and stir well.
2. Lily snow pear Ice Sugar Water
Ingredients: 5-6 pieces of fresh lily, 1/4 piece of snow pear, 1 small crystal sugar.
Preparation: First clean the fresh lily and snow pear. Tear the lily into small pieces, peel and core the snow pear and cut it into small pieces, and put it together with the peeled snow pear skin in a pot with proper amount of water. After boiling over high heat, remove the white foam and then reduce the heat to low and cook for about 15 minutes until the lilies and pear slices are fully cooked, then remove the pear skin. Then add 1 small piece of rock sugar and cook until completely melted.
3. Mulberry Leaf Mint Drink
Ingredients: 5g mulberry leaves, 5g chrysanthemum, 3g mint, 30g bitter bamboo leaves.
Preparation: Wash the medicinal herbs with clean water, put them in a teapot, and soak them in boiling water for ten minutes. Drink them anytime. This product has both a refreshing and anti-inflammatory effect on wind heat colds, and can also be consumed as a preventive tea.
4. Watermelon and tomato juice
Ingredients: Watermelon and tomato in appropriate amounts.
Preparation: Take the flesh of the watermelon, remove the seeds, and squeeze the juice with gauze. First, blanch the tomatoes in boiling water, peel them, and then squeeze the juice with gauze. Combine the two juices and drink them as tea substitutes. Clear heat and detoxify, dispel heat and dampness. Treating summer colds, symptoms include fever, thirst, irritability, red hot urine, poor appetite, indigestion, etc.
In general, children's wind heat cold can be treated by dietotherapy. Four common dietotherapy formulas are introduced above, namely Shuanghua Hongguo Drink, Lily snow pear Ice Sugar Water, Mulberry Leaf Mint Drink and Watermelon and Tomato Juice. These four dietotherapy formulas have good effects. If a child at home has a cold or flu, you may want to try it out.
