Coughing in children is a defensive reflex movement and a self-protection action. Coughing can effectively prevent the inhalation of foreign objects, prevent the accumulation of bronchial secretions, clear secretions, and thus avoid various secondary infections caused by the accumulation of secretions. There are many diseases that can trigger coughing behavior. So, what is a good way for children to cough quickly?
1. Garlic
In traditional Chinese medicine, garlic has a pungent and sweet taste, and a warm nature. Can warm the middle and strengthen the stomach, digest food and regulate qi, detoxify and kill insects. At the same time, it has the effects of protecting cardiovascular function, protecting liver function, preventing colds, and strong sterilization. So, if you drink some garlic water in moderation, it has a good effect on the recovery of children's cough.
2. Pear
When I was a child, if I had a cold or cough, my family would cook a pear and add white sugar. In fact, pears do have therapeutic effects on cough. Because pears themselves contain a large amount of protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, glucose, fructose, malic acid, carotenoids, and various vitamins. In addition, pear skin, pear flowers, leaves, and roots can also be used as medicine, which has good effects such as clearing heat, reducing phlegm, moistening the lungs, and detoxifying. It has good effects on dry heat cough, cold cough, measles cough, and bronchitis cough.
3. Loquat
In the Compendium of Materia Medica, loquat is described as "quenching thirst, promoting lung qi, stopping vomiting and phlegm thirst." This shows that loquat has a very good relieving and therapeutic effect on children's cough. Of course, the most common way to eat loquat is to remove the outer skin and eat it directly. But make sure to clean the skin thoroughly, as it is very dirty on top.
4. Radish
Carrots have functions such as clearing heat and generating fluids, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, resolving phlegm and stopping cough, promoting urination, and detoxifying. The simplest way is to cook a bowl of radish water for children, which has a good effect on coughing. Of course, you can also make radish ginger juice, radish vegetable soup, sugar pickled radish, radish sake frying, etc. as Tonic Diet to better treat children's cough.
5. Orange
Orange has a sweet and sour taste, a cool nature, and has good effects on stimulating appetite, regulating qi, quenching thirst, and moistening the lungs for children. When children cough, they can roast oranges or stir fry them in a pan. Eating it for children will have a better effect on treating cough.
In addition, tomatoes contain lycopene that has the effect of inhibiting bacteria, so cough patients who eat them also have anti-inflammatory effects. For babies who cough, it is recommended to also eat tomatoes. The above is the content about what to eat for children with cough. If your child has cough, you may want to give it a try.
