Not only that, osmanthus fragrans also has a kind of "drilling strength", which can chisel away phlegm and accumulate silt in the body. If the baby has a cold, cough and phlegm, or the constitution is cold, it can be conditioned with osmanthus.
At this time of year, dried osmanthus is more suitable for children than fresh osmanthus. Some parents report that their children will feel dizzy after eating food made of fresh osmanthus-this is because the fragrance of fresh osmanthus is too strong. How can sweet-scented osmanthus be eaten scientifically for children, and what dietotherapy remedies and delicious cakes can be made?
Osmanthus fragrans is pungent.
Can care for the lungs and middle energizer injured by cold.
Sweet-scented osmanthus, pungent and warm, smells fragrant, enters the lungs, spleen, stomach and intestines, eliminates phlegm and blood stasis, and strengthens the spleen and wakes up the spleen. As early as ancient times, people already knew how to make good use of osmanthus fragrans. Yan Hui, a herbal medicine, recorded the external usage of osmanthus fragrans: "All kinds of cold and air conditioning, hernia dolphin running, all kinds of abdominal cold pain, steaming hot cloth wrapped and ironed." For example, if the weather changes suddenly, the child will not pay attention for a while, his stomach will catch cold and suddenly he will have abdominal pain. At this time, you can wrap the sweet-scented osmanthus with hot cloth and scald it in the medium coke to dispel the yin and cold. Osmanthus fragrans can be used to make soup, cook porridge, nourish the stomach, and warm the middle and drive away the cold, with a wider range.
Osmanthus fragrans has three main functions:
1 spleen and spleen: osmanthus fragrans is fragrant and spleen-strengthening, which can warm the stomach and help digestion. It can regulate the spleen and stomach of children with deficiency-cold and stimulate their appetite.
② Warming lung and dispelling cold: Osmanthus fragrans is lighter than lung, warming and dispelling cold, which can cure wind-cold, lung-cold and cough.
③ Eliminating phlegm and removing blood stasis: Osmanthus fragrans' drilling strength benefits from its pungent taste. Children with phlegm, cold and cough, and excessive phlegm can all be relieved by osmanthus.
There must be parents who ask, shouldn't autumn be less bitter and more sour? Osmanthus fragrans is pungent. Is it suitable for eating at this time? I suggest that children with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, who tend to accumulate food every day, or children whose weather suddenly turns cold and cold pathogens invade their bodies, take osmanthus fragrans. For children who are healthy and have no pain, it is not necessary to use warm osmanthus to regulate their bodies in daily life. It is enough to drink autumn lemon in their daily diet. It should be noted that for children to eat osmanthus, the dosage should be small, generally 2~3g is enough, otherwise the fragrance is too strong.
Osmanthus porridge, Osmanthus Jelly, osmanthus tea …
Which ones are suitable for children and which ones should be eaten as little as possible?
There are many foods cooked and processed with osmanthus fragrans, but not every one is suitable for children. Give your child sweet-scented osmanthus, and choose light food. If the child eats it, it can nourish and will not increase the burden on the spleen and stomach.
1. osmanthus porridge: treating lung cold and helping stomach qi.
Recently, many parents asked me what kind of diet my children should eat in autumn to recuperate their bodies. In fact, choosing the right medicine to cook porridge can give children better tonic.
The function of hot porridge is not only good digestion, but also fluid production and stomach qi. The growth of grain depends on the sunlight and the germinal breath of the land. After the porridge is cooked, this characteristic is brought into the porridge together, so the porridge is the most moist and nourishes the spleen and stomach. Adding different edible herbs to porridge can also neutralize the drug effect and be more gentle to children.
If the child coughs due to lung cold, parents can add osmanthus in porridge to help the child treat lung cold, dispel cold pathogens and help stomach qi.
Osmanthus porridge
Ingredients: sweet-scented osmanthus 3g, almond 5g, dried tangerine peel 1g, and japonica rice 30g.
Practice: add about 3 bowls of water except osmanthus in the pot. After the fire boils, turn to low heat and cook for about 40 minutes. Add osmanthus fragrans and a little sugar, stir and boil.
Efficacy: Warming the middle warmer to dispel cold, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.
Applicable age: over 3 years old, take a small amount for many times. Silkworm bean disease can be taken.
The reason why Osmanthus fragrans stays is to keep its light fragrance and reach the upper focus, which is more conducive to nourishing the lungs and has obvious effects on resolving phlegm and relieving cough and throat discomfort.
Pay attention to syndrome differentiation before eating. The child really belongs to lung cold and coughs before eating. If it is lung heat cough, eating osmanthus will only cough more and more.
Cough due to lung cold: cough due to wind cold, aversion to cold and runny nose, dry cough with or without sparse phlegm, and white tongue coating.
Cough due to lung heat: cough with yellow phlegm, dry mouth and sore throat, red tongue, thin yellow or greasy fur.
2. osmanthus tea: children with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are warm.
Deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach in children. Besides having osmanthus porridge for breakfast, they can also drink osmanthus tea in moderation. Pay attention to drinking tea for children. Don't drink green tea or white tea. Choose fermented and warm tea such as black tea and Pu 'er tea. Add 2g~3g osmanthus to the brewed tea, and add a small amount of brown sugar to taste if the child has a slight cold.
In this cup of tea, fermented tea and brown sugar are warm, which have the functions of warming the spleen and stomach and helping digestion; Add a little osmanthus, warm the spleen and stomach, promote qi and blood circulation, which is very suitable for cooling in autumn and taking it when the weather is cold in winter.
3. Shan Gui Tianxiang Decoction: invigorating spleen to stimulate appetite and relieve autumn deficiency.
Licorice is flat, which can replenish spleen and qi. The combination of licorice and osmanthus fragrans is called "Tianxiang Decoction" in Eight Chapters of Respect for Life, which has the effect of strengthening spleen and strengthening yang.
If the child is obviously sad about autumn, feels sleepy and weak in autumn, and is usually particularly "depressed" and has no appetite, it is more appropriate to take Tianxiang Decoction. The fragrance of osmanthus fragrans is very active, which can not only awaken the numb spleen and stomach, but also awaken the depressed liver qi.
Shan Gui tianxiang decoction
Ingredients: sweet-scented osmanthus 3g, licorice 5g, a little rock sugar.
Practice: put the material into a cup, heat the water and cover it, let it warm and serve it for tea.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and strengthening yang.
Applicable age: over 2 years old, small amount and multiple doses. Silkworm bean disease can be taken.
Note: If the child coughs with phlegm, it is not recommended to add rock sugar.
4. Osmanthus Jelly: Strengthening the spleen and calming the heart, not all children can eat it
Different from the previous three kinds of porridge and tea, Osmanthus Jelly contains glutinous rice, which requires high digestion ability of children. Osmanthus fragrans is warm and not all children can eat it.
Not suitable for eating Osmanthus Jelly: food accumulation and sick children can't eat; Children with heat syndrome cannot eat; Don't eat every day, and don't overdo it.
Not only in Osmanthus Jelly, all children should pay attention to osmanthus food: heat syndrome is not suitable, and excessive consumption is not suitable.
For children to eat Osmanthus Jelly, it is suggested to make a children's version of Osmanthus Jelly according to the following weight:
Children Osmanthus Jelly.
Ingredients: Osmanthus fragrans 10g, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch 10g, glutinous rice flour 150g, and proper amount of sugar.
Practice: Pour 1 bowl of water into the pot, add licorice slices, boil over high fire, turn to low heat for 10 minute, add sugar, cook until the sugar melts, remove residues and let cool; Sift glutinous rice flour twice, add sugar and mix well, slowly pour licorice syrup, stir until confused, and let stand for half an hour; Pour the paste into the mold, cover it, and steam it in a steamer for 20 minutes.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and stomach, invigorating middle energizer and benefiting qi.
Applicable age: over 3 years old, take a small amount for many times. Silkworm bean disease can be taken.
Note: raw licorice is cool. If the child's spleen and stomach are seriously deficient in cold, it can be replaced by roasted licorice.
5. Osmanthus fragrans+Dioscorea opposita: weak constitution, easy to get sick, daily conditioning.
Compared with Osmanthus Jelly, I recommend children to eat sweet-scented osmanthus yam mud. The taste is soft, tender and delicate, and it can be eaten in moderation. It is not as difficult to digest as glutinous rice, and it is more suitable for children.
Osmanthus fragrans yam mud
Ingredients: sweet osmanthus 3g, yam 50g, walnut 1, peeled sweet almond 10g, and appropriate amount of honey.
Practice: stir-fry sweet almonds and walnuts in a pot, stir-fry and grind after fragrance; Steamed yam, peeled, pressed with mud, and added with sweet almond, walnut meat powder, honey and osmanthus fragrans.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and kidney, moistening lung and moistening dryness, which can be used as daily diet therapy in autumn and winter.
Applicable age: over 3 years old, take a small amount for many times. Silkworm bean disease can be taken.
In addition, according to the physical characteristics of children, one or two kinds of edible medicinal materials can be added appropriately: gallnut can be added for those who are prone to yin deficiency and internal heat, 15g chestnut can be added for mud pressing for those with cold weather and cold hands and feet, and 15g poria cocos can be added for those who are prone to spleen deficiency for a long time.
6. Sweet-scented osmanthus sugar: it can be seasoned in a small amount.
Some parents asked me if the sweet-scented osmanthus candy popular in the market recently could be bought back to make a suit for children. A small amount of sweet-scented osmanthus sugar can be used as seasoning, but it is not recommended to give it to children every day.
When making some cool syrup for children, such as water chestnut syrup and steamed pear we introduced before, sweet-scented osmanthus sugar can be added to adjust the taste and sweetness.
Sweet osmanthus food, delicious and dietotherapy, might as well give it to children at home.