Summer lasts for three months, from long summer to beginning of autumn, including six solar terms, namely, long summer, small full, busy day, summer solstice, little summer and big summer. Summer is the most prosperous season in a year, and the human body's yang is the easiest to vent. Due to the hot weather in summer, Cantonese people have the habit of drinking herbal tea. Every summer, many old people will cook herbal tea for their children from time to time, but drinking herbal tea has advantages and disadvantages, and it is not allowed to drink blindly. Children are full of vitality and develop rapidly. Their viscera are delicate, their form and qi are not filled, and their physiological functions are not yet mature, which is obviously different from that of adults. The so-called "children's yin and children's yang" are prone to deficiency and loss, and the liver is often redundant and the spleen is often insufficient. This is the physiological characteristic of children. I would like to remind parents that it is a good thing to drink herbal tea as a health care, but it must be timely, appropriate and moderate, suitable for physical fitness, especially for children. It is not advisable to overdo it, otherwise it will damage the spleen and stomach, leading to anorexia or other diseases. Here are some commonly used medicinal diets in summer: 50 grams of malt porridge is used to treat anorexia in children, and 50 grams of japonica rice is cooked with malt and japonica rice. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion, and is mainly used for treating anorexia in children. 50 grams of fresh reed rhizome and 50 grams of japonica rice for children's summer heat. How to make it? Cut fresh reed roots, fry them in water for 20 minutes, take out reed roots, and take juice to cook japonica rice into porridge. Perilla porridge with effects of clearing away heat, nourishing stomach, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst is used to treat vomiting in children. Raw materials are 5 grams of fresh perilla leaves and 30 grams of japonica rice. First of all, porridge is cooked with japonica rice. After cooking, add perilla leaves and cook slightly. Efficacy: sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, warming and neutralizing stomach. Suitable for cold, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and stomachache. 30 grams of raw materials for treating children's night crying with crystal sugar lily, and appropriate amount of crystal sugar. Usage * * * is ripe, which has the effect of calming the heart and calming the nerves. Mainly used for children who are restless and easy to wake up at night. Bitter gourd and mung bean soup for the treatment of furuncle raw materials 200 grams of bitter gourd, 250 grams of mung beans, 250 grams of lean pork. Wash bitter gourd and lean pork and slice for later use. After the mung bean is boiled for 30 minutes, add bitter gourd and lean meat, and then stew until the mung bean is rotten. You can add some salt to drink. The efficacy of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating furuncle and swelling shows that bitter gourd and mung bean can clear away heat and toxic materials, eliminate dampness and reduce swelling and treat sores; Pork tastes sweet, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. It is suitable for patients with furuncle and suppuration.