Children's cough is one of the most worrying problems for parents, and diet therapy is a safe and effective treatment. This paper will introduce three prescriptions for treating children's cough, which are suitable for wind-cold cough, wind-heat cough and internal injury cough respectively.

Dietotherapy for Cold Cough

The child has a cold, and drinking warm ginger and brown sugar water can play a very good therapeutic role. If the child has a cough at the same time, you can add 2 ~ 3 cloves of garlic to the ginger brown sugar water and cook it together. It takes 10 minutes to boil out the spicy taste of garlic and make children willing to drink it.

Wind-heat cough diet therapy

Cross-cut the pear according to the handle, dig out the core in the middle, add 2~3 crystal sugar and 5~6 Fritillaria cirrhosa (Fritillaria cirrhosa should be broken into powder), put the pear in a bowl, steam it for about 30 minutes, and give it to the baby twice. This recipe has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

Internal injury cough dietotherapy

Yam strengthens the spleen and stomach, nourishes lung qi and kidney essence. This prescription is most suitable for infants, not only can relieve cough and asthma, but also has a good therapeutic effect on anorexia, hyperhidrosis, drooling, qi deficiency and timidity in children. It should be noted that the boiling time of yam should not be too long, otherwise the amylase contained in it will decompose and lose its nourishing effect.