Moxibustion Therapy for Cough in Children
After the child catches a cold, parents can use a warm moxibustion box to help the child warm moxibustion.
Acupoint selection: only two acupoints are selected, one at Shenque (navel) and the other at Dazhui (under the Kaschin-Beck of the child's back neck).
Operation flow: after the moxa sticks in the warm moxibustion box are lit, one warm moxibustion box is placed at the navel of the child, and the other warm moxibustion box is placed at the Dazhui point of the child. Children's activities will not be affected after being fixed with elastic bands. Generally, the first warm moxibustion lasts for half an hour to one hour, and after the first warm moxibustion, the second warm moxibustion can be carried out.
Under normal circumstances, after two times of warm moxibustion, children will sweat and have a fever. If the high temperature does not subside, warm moxibustion can be carried out three or four times a day for two to three hours each time.
Moxibustion
When warming moxibustion 1, first moxibustion on the left side, then moxibustion on the right side.
2 light one end of the moxa stick and put the burning end into the moxibustion stick.
3 Try the temperature with your palm and make sure the temperature is moderate, then you can start warm moxibustion.
After the abdomen is massaged with essential oil, warm moxibustion is carried out, the warm moxibustion stick is rolled back and forth in the abdomen, and then the points around the umbilicus (Gui, Qi Hai and Guan Yuan) are used to dredge the points and meridians and make the skin smooth and rosy. Warm moxibustion time: 15 minutes.
Dietotherapy for cough
For cold and cough, almond 10g, 3 slices of ginger and radish 10g can be decocted with water.
Wind-heat cough can be matched with lotus root juice and pear juice.
Phlegm heat cough might as well use a fresh cooked papaya, peeled and steamed, and add a little honey to eat.
Cooking porridge with coix seed for phlegm-dampness cough is helpful to treat cough and expectoration in throat; Or decoct 30 grams of orange peel into thick juice, remove residues, and add 50 to 100 grams of japonica rice to cook porridge.
For chronic cough caused by lung qi deficiency or yin deficiency, use more than 20 grapefruit seeds, add rock sugar and water to decoction, three times a day, which is beneficial to chronic cough. You can also eat 30 grams of steamed lily honey, which is good for chronic cough and dry mouth.
Cough recipes:
Ginkgo chicken porridge
Raw materials:
Ginkgo biloba, chicken breast, shrimp, rice porridge, shredded ginger, chopped green onion and seasoning.
Method:
Chop chicken breast into minced chicken, add light soy sauce, peanut oil, cooking wine, pepper, tender meat powder and shredded ginger, mix well and marinate for later use; Cook a pot of rice porridge, add a little shrimp when cooking the porridge, add ginkgo when the porridge is almost finished and continue cooking for 10 minutes, then add chicken paste to cook, add appropriate amount of salt and sesame oil, and sprinkle with chopped green onion.
Efficacy:
Delicious and nutritious, relieving cough and asthma. Ginkgo biloba can moisten the lungs and replenish qi, so it is suitable for cooked food and not for long-term consumption.
Ginseng lily duck soup
Composition: radix glehniae, lily each 30g, fat duck150g.
Method: Wash Radix Glehniae, Bulbus Lilii and Duck separately, put them into a pot together, add appropriate amount of water, first boil them with strong fire, and then stew them with slow fire until the ducks are cooked. Indications: nourishing yin and moistening lung, clearing heat and resolving phlegm. It is suitable for cough and expectoration, dry mouth and throat, tuberculosis cough caused by lung heat and yin deficiency.
Usage: Eat duck with soup.
Almond pork lung porridge
Composition: pig lung 90g almond10g; 60 grams of japonica rice.
Methods: (1), peeled almond tips were washed; Wash the pig lungs, cut them into pieces, put them in a pot, and rinse them with clean water when the water comes out.
(2) Wash the japonica rice, put it into the pot with almonds and pig lungs, add water and simmer to make porridge.
Indications: Chronic bronchitis belongs to patients with excessive phlegm. Symptoms include cough with excessive phlegm, dyspnea, asthma, chest tightness, diaphragmatic distension and slippery pulse.
Usage: Take according to the amount.
catch cold
Infectious disease, the pathogen is virus, which is easy to cause when the body is overtired, catches cold and the resistance drops. Symptoms are dry throat, stuffy nose, cough, sneezing and headache.
Matters needing attention
(1) Rest can relieve the illness, so patients with cough should pay attention to rest.
(2) Keep warm to avoid catching a cold.
(3) Drinking plenty of water can replenish excessive water consumed by the body.
(4) Eat more nutritious foods and try to abstain from irritating foods, such as cigarettes, wine, spicy food and cold drinks.
(5) Treat a cold or cough as soon as possible without delay.
(6) exposure to fresh air, some patients recuperate in the mountains and recover quickly, because fresh air will not aggravate the stimulation to the lungs and trachea.
Ginger brown sugar water can relieve cough and resolve phlegm.
Cough can be divided into hot cough and cold cough. Chinese medicine believes that ginger entering the lung meridian can sweat outside, relieve cough and resolve phlegm, and has a good therapeutic effect on cold and cough. The main manifestations of cold and cough are thin expectoration and itchy throat. The therapeutic effect of loquat cream and Fritillaria cirrhosa liquid is short-lived or poor, while drinking ginger and brown sugar in boiling water can achieve good cough relieving effect.
Recommendation: Brown sugar old ginger tea is recommended to dispel cold and stop vomiting, strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach to warm the uterus, treat dysmenorrhea and prevent colds.
Practice: cooking taste: ginger juice taste difficulty: novice number: 1 person preparation time: 5 minutes cooking time:
1. Peel, wash and shred ginger.
2. Wash and mash garlic.
3. Add a bowl of water to the pot
4. Put the shredded ginger in and start cooking.
5. After the water in the pot is boiled, add brown sugar, stir well with a spoon, and cook for 2 minutes.
6. Add garlic and cook for 3 minutes (add garlic when you have a cold and cough, and don't add it if you don't cough.
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