There are summer not pay attention to, the child is also careless of the heart of the cold food, there are trembling, cold avoidance of excessive parents. I do always say that cold food as little as possible to the baby to eat, but does not mean that parents can only ever choose flat food.
In the process of feeding, it is important to follow the times of the day, to what season to eat what food, so that the child's constitution is the best. For example, in late summer and early fall, instead of eating watermelon, eat winter melon. As long as you eat right, the baby's many small illnesses and pains can be cured through the winter melon therapeutic formula assistance.
Children at Kangle Kindergarten in Chaohu City, Anhui Province, are guided by their teacher to identify a large winter melon. (Ma Fengcheng/People's Photo)
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Winter melon's "coolness" is just enough to cope with the summer's "summer"
The winter melon is sweet and light in nature, cool, and enters the lungs, the large and small intestine, the bladder, and the lungs, the small intestine, and the bladder. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on your own. It is beneficial to eliminate phlegm, clearing heat and removing toxins, and quenching the effects of summer thirst.
"Materia Medica again new" recorded winter melon: "clear the heart fire, diarrhea spleen fire, dampness, wind, swelling, thirst, summer heat." There are so many functions of the "treasure melon", but also inexpensive, the baby ate in moderation nothing bad. Although it is cool, but not cold.
With winter melon and other ingredients with, cooked into a warm winter melon soup soup, winter melon tea, the baby after eating will not feel too cold or greasy, mouth and mouth there is a share of light and sharp feeling, but also to solve the summer days of the lack of sleep, which is the winter melon thirst effect at work.
In addition, the biggest effect of the winter melon is to facilitate the dampness.
Note that the winter melon is good for dampness, mainly favorable is to get rid of the dampness of the lower focus - large and small intestines, bladder, on the middle focus of the spleen and soil of the accumulation of food and dampness, relatively speaking, the role of some small.
If the baby's frequent urination, the amount of each time but not much, urination is often burning pain, resulting in the baby like to hold urine; loose stools fishy, sticky toilet, or hard knot difficult to solve ...... these show that the baby in the middle Jiao damp heavy, has affected the lower Jiao. Long dampness and heat, it is long overdue to use winter melon to clear heat, diuresis, diarrhea.
In addition, the fat phlegm-dampness baby is also suitable for eating winter melon, can benefit the gas in addition to annoyance, so that the body is light and healthy.
How to choose when buying winter melon?
Parents in the market to choose the winter melon should pay attention to:
Selected varieties, black winter melon meat thick taste sweet; white winter melon meat soft, easy to digest, pay attention to not long cooking; green skin winter melon is between black and white two.
The melon knocking melon and picking watermelon similar to the hand before purchasing a weighing winter melon, heavy proof of sufficient moisture, meat thick flesh less; knocking the melon skin, feel the melon body is more compact, proving that the melon is relatively fresh.
The appearance of the best selection of the appearance of round and uniform, the outer skin wrapped in a more complete layer of white frost of the winter melon. If it is sold in pieces, try to choose those winter melon pieces with thin capsules and ripe, yellowish-brown seeds.
There are also details when it comes to cooking winter melon. With winter melon cooking baby supplements, you can remove the skin and dig the capsule, only cooking winter melon meat; if you cook winter melon soup for older children, you can retain the melon skin, melon capsule, melon seeds. Melon skin and melon seeds in traditional Chinese medicine can be used as medicine. The winter melon rind is similar in flavor, efficacy and melon flesh, and can be put together to enhance the therapeutic effect.
How to eat melon meat and seeds to be delicious and therapeutic?
If the digestion of the spleen and stomach is healthy, there is no special cold and weak, the baby in the addition of complementary foods after 1 ~ 2 months, you can eat some winter melon paste, winter melon egg soup.
However, eat winter melon season and frequency to pay attention. After all, winter melon is cool, cold days are not very suitable for eating, summer eat 1~2 times a week can be. 1 year before the baby, pay attention to eat less, the amount should also be small.
If you are still worried about too cold when cooking winter melon, you can put in two slices of ginger, which can be used to drive away the internal cold, but also to neutralize the cold of winter melon. Late summer health care, you can also use winter melon with brown sugar, cooking winter melon brown sugar tea.
Winter melon brown sugar tea
Ingredients: 100g of winter melon, 1 piece of ginger, brown sugar in moderation (about 10 ~ 20g).
Practice: winter melon with seeds cut into small pieces, poured into the appropriate amount of brown sugar marinade for 2 hours, poured into the pot, high-fire boiling ginger, turn the fire to cook to the winter melon transparent viscous, during the period of time can be added to the amount of boiled water, boiled after the filtration of dregs, the juice into warm water for tea; 1 ~ 2 times a week.
Functions: relief of summer heat, in addition to heartburn, warming and dispersing cold.
Applicable age: 2 years old and above can be served, a small amount of time to take. Can be served for serotonin disease.
Winter melon can also be combined with adzuki beans, barley, yam and other stews to increase the scope and strength of the elimination of dampness.
Note that if the baby has been used three-star, four-star, five-star soup weekly health care, or even served to eliminate food, the baby's tongue is a little thick and greasy, dampness is not very heavy, there is no need to add other dampness in the winter melon food herbs. To know, but with the help of therapeutic food "external force" to break the body blockage, to a certain extent, will lose Yang Qi, so the strength can not be too large, the amount to control.
Ingredients: raw fish half, 100g of winter melon, 15g of adzuki beans, ginger 1 ~ 2 slices. Practice: fish slaughter net, winter melon even skin with seeds cut into pieces; materials into the pot, add about 5 bowls of water, large fire boil and then turn to a small fire boil for 20 minutes, do not put the salt seasoning, drink the slag to go to the fish spines; 1 ~ 2 weeks to drink once. Functions: tonifying the spleen, diuretic, decongesting, regulating the symptoms of itchy throat and nose, puffy eyelids, pale and fat tongue, and loose stools. Applicable age: babies over 3 years old can be served on the evidence, a small amount of time to take. Can be served for serotonin disease. If the baby sweats too much in the summer, or high fever, after a long illness, Yin deficiency fire, to nourish Yin and clear the fire, winter melon and slightly cool duck is the best match. Winter melon barley duck Ingredients: winter melon 80g, barley 15g, duck 100g, ginger 2 slices. Method: winter melon cut into pieces, duck cleaned and cut into pieces, and barley, ginger with the pot, add about 5 bowls of water boiled, seasoned to eat. Functions: clear summer dampness and stomach, suitable for children sweating too much in the summer days, summer health care spleen. Applicable age: more than 3 years old baby digestion is good, no disease can be eaten, a small amount of time to take. Can be eaten for serotonin disease. How to eat winter melon seeds? After eating winter melon meat, more out, not boiled winter melon seeds, you can choose those particles full, wash and dry, sealed cool storage. Winter melon seeds taste sweet, sex slightly cool, can clear the lungs and phlegm, eliminate carbuncle pus. Job's tears and melon seeds porridge Ingredients: Job's tears 15g, 15g of melon seeds, 30g of yam, 50g of polished round-grained rice. Directions: Add about 5 bowls of water to the pot, and then turn to a low fire to cook until the porridge is soft and rotten. Functions: strengthen the spleen and turbidity, suitable for phlegm-damp cough baby. Applicable age: babies over 3 years old can be served on the evidence, a small amount of time to take. Can be served for serotonin disease. There may be some babies who are coughing themselves, and will discharge a lot of phlegm after eating the winter melon recipe. This is not a sign of aggravation, but the sticky phlegm and thick phlegm previously attached to the lungs are dissolved, and the disease is discharged from the body with the phlegm. Special attention, winter melon seeds are also cold, so babies with cold cough should be taken with caution.