I advocate diet therapy for children's cough. A parent asked a child what to do when coughing. I usually recommend orange peel to boil water, that is, the oranges we eat, yellow ones, especially the white cotton in the oranges, and the silk inside, called orange collaterals, are all for regulating qi and relieving cough. Boil water with one orange peel for five minutes at a time. If it is hot, you can add pear peel and shredded radish. If the sputum is completely clear and white, you can add a little ginger or perilla leaves. I usually use this method to deal with children's cough. There are many things for diet therapy, so I can think about it again.

Now many parents are afraid of their children's cough, and often tell me that every cough of their children affects their nerves and tortures their fragile hearts. In fact, what I want to tell you is, don't worry too much about your child's cough, because cough is the body's own reaction to expel pathogenic factors, so don't stop coughing forcibly. Some parents said urgently, please stop the child's cough. Many doctors complied with the parents' requirements and prescribed many cough-relieving drugs, such as terminalia chebula, Schisandra chinensis and ebony. Chinese medicine believes that if such astringent drugs are used too early, the evil spirits will be restrained, which will leave the root of the disease. In addition, if you are so astringent, the normal function of the human body will be confused, resulting in constipation and other symptoms.

Another misunderstanding is that parents are anxious to treat diseases, and doctors are also anxious. As a result, the prescriptions are very large, with 20 or 30 kinds of medicines as one prescription, and the dosage of each medicine is used by adults. This is not acceptable. In fact, when treating adults, the medicine used for lung meridian should be light, because the light medicine is above and the heavy medicine is below, and the average child should be lighter. For a five-or six-year-old child, I usually take about 3 grams of medicine per taste, and the disease goes very fast. If you prescribe more than 10 grams, the medicine will go down. If the medicine passes through the hospital, it will not cure the disease, but there may be other side effects.

Specific treatment, children's cough is divided into wind-cold, wind-heat, wind-dryness and other syndromes. These cough drugs are commonly used by Chinese medicine practitioners. Just pay attention to the first two points, then cough is still very good to treat.

Here is another question for you to talk about, that is, children's cough and wheezing. Many children cough and then wheeze after catching a cold. At this time, when they go to the hospital, Western medicine generally judges asthma and then gives hormones to many children. Because these children are getting cold every day, many friends bring their children to ask me what to do. As soon as I look, there are actually children who have been using hormones for nearly five or six years. You know, in Chinese medicine, cough and asthma are two problems. We usually say: wheezing is not necessary, and wheezing must be combined with wheezing. That is to say, wheezing is dyspnea, opening one's mouth and lifting one's shoulders, which is not necessarily asthma, but asthma is a loud noise and whistling sound in the respiratory tract, which is asthma, but western medicine seems to have a tendency to classify cough and asthma as asthma. Take a stethoscope and listen: asthma! I think many children have been given hormones early.

My point of view is that these coughs and wheezing are allergic immune reactions caused by respiratory disorders caused by exogenous cough and respiratory spasm. At this time, if exogenous pathogens are eliminated and inflammation is eliminated, then the inducement leading to respiratory spasm will be removed, and the body will recover slowly, and it is not necessary to use hormones prematurely.

Therefore, remind parents of children that when they go to see Chinese medicine, they should not say that my child is asthmatic, but actually a cough and asthma. As a result, Chinese medicine practitioners have heard that it is asthma, so they have to take Xiaoqinglong Decoction, and all kinds of powerful drugs for asthma have been taken, but the effect is not good. In fact, parents misled Chinese medicine practitioners. You should tell people that your child is asthmatic first, but it is not that serious. Instead, it is to cure it. It is true.

I have seen a lot of such children recently.

I was once defined as asthma, and the hospital gave me hormones early, or a Chinese medicine hospital.

I didn't dare to take it because I was afraid of the side effects caused by hormones. I found an old Chinese medicine practitioner and took the decoction for a while. Now I am much better, but I am very tired, and I will gasp. It is that kind of breathing difficulty, and it is really painful to open my mouth and lift my shoulders. Teacher Luo, what should people like me pay attention to on weekdays?

Blogger's reply: 2009-10-1619: 59:13

You can use the method of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis slightly, and at the same time mainly use the method of nourishing vital qi. I hope to stick to it for a while, and it is best to make the medicine into pills, so that you can take it for a long time. Since taking this Chinese medicine is effective, it shows that he has kung fu. Don't give up.

In fact, children's cough is a very complicated problem. There are many syndromes in Chinese medicine, but it is an easy disease to treat, because the child's body grows every day and recovers quickly. If the medicine is used in time, it will recover quickly.

Today we talk about exogenous cough.

Remember, it is very important for us to respond to exogenous diseases in the first place. If we just find signs, we can take measures immediately, and we will soon be blocked back. If we stare blankly for a moment, or hold the idea of seeing again, it will be much more complicated when the disease has become, and we will have a fever and a bad cough. At this time, we will look for famous doctors everywhere, but famous doctors are not immortals, so it is often a long time of treatment that patients toss off a layer of skin.

So I remind you again and again that the initial stage of exogenous diseases is very important, just like a fire. When there is a small flame, a glass of water or clothes will go out, but when the whole house is on fire, don't hesitate, run, and no one can put it out except the fire brigade.

My view on cough is the same as that of a cold. I think at the beginning, it must be cold, and it must be cold, runny nose and white sputum. If the child has just found these symptoms, in fact, the treatment is very simple at this time. I have introduced the use of perilla leaf, which is a medicine that we can use as food. Generally, six grams is enough for children of five or six years old, and three grams for younger children, and then add a little. My answer is yes. Oranges are similar in medicinal use. I once used orange peel to treat a friend's child's cough, and with other medicines, I didn't have dried tangerine peel at hand. When I saw their American oranges, I had a brainwave and cut them, and the effect was good. Generally, a quarter of the orange peel is washed (some vendors apply oily substances to the orange peel for beauty, and if they are not at ease, they can peel off a layer), cut it into strips, and boil it with the leaves.

When you boil, you should pay attention to the medicine for treating lung meridian. You must not boil it for more than three to five minutes, and take its light and clear gas. What is actually important is the volatile substances in it.

This water can be given to children as usual water, just like tea, but it must be drunk when it is warm.

At the same time, you can use six grams of perilla leaves to boil water, and then mix it with warm water to soak the child's feet, so that his body will warm up, so that the cold evil will dissipate, and his body will recover. Generally, a mild cough is in the initial stage. If you can take such measures immediately, you can basically resist going back.

However, if you don't pay attention, this stage has passed (sometimes the first stage is very short, and you don't grasp it), and you will enter the second stage. At this time, exogenous pathogens begin to struggle with the body, and heat syndrome appears in the body. This is called the stage of external cold and internal heat. At this time, nasal mucus begins to turn yellow, or yellow and white alternate, and it is clear for a while and yellow for a while. This is a mixture of cold and heat, and so is phlegm.

The vast majority of parents, when they take their children to treatment, are at this stage, and there is basically no previous stage.

Many parents asked me if I could introduce some proprietary medicines at this time, so that children can take them conveniently, and children often don't like to drink soup.

In normal times, I also encounter this situation. Sometimes I write prescriptions, and sometimes I ask to buy proprietary Chinese medicines, but I haven't noticed what medicines are available. Often, when a friend arrives at the pharmacy, he calls me and reads me the instructions of the medicines he can see. When I hear which medicines are in line with the child's situation, I tell him that this is the medicine.

In order to introduce you, I specially went to Tongrentang yesterday. Fortunately, they didn't rest on the 11th, so I copied down the names of Chinese patent medicines that I thought were suitable and introduced them to parents.

I have selected three varieties, and these three varieties must take into account the external cold and internal heat when making prescriptions, so they all use ephedra to dispel the external cold and spread the lungs. This is the idea of Maxing Shigan Decoction of Zhang Zhongjing, and then use some heat-clearing drugs to clear the internal heat. As long as children take these drugs, they can basically recover gradually and not develop.

These three varieties are:

1. Drug Name Generic Name: Children Qingfei Oral Liquid (manufacturer: Tong Ren Tang)

Ingredients: Herba Ephedrae, Semen Armeniacae Amarum (peeled and fried), Gypsum Fibrosum, Radix Glycyrrhizae, Cortex Mori (honey-fried), Fructus Trichosanthis, Scutellariae Radix, Radix Isatidis, Rhizoma Pinelliae Preparata, Fritillaria thunbergii, Orange Peel, Fructus Perillae (fried), Semen Lepidii, Folium Perillae, Herba Asari, Herba Menthae, and Folium Eriobotryae (honey-fried) Accessories are

This product is a brownish red liquid; The gas is cool and fragrant, and it tastes sweet and slightly bitter.

Functions: clearing away lung-heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Used for fever, cough, excessive phlegm and sore throat.

Name of drug: Sunflower brand oral liquid for children with lung heat and cough.

Manufacturer: Heilongjiang Sunflower Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Formula: Maxing Shigan Decoction, Shuanghuanglian Decoction and Baihu Decoction.

Ingredients: Herba Ephedrae, Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Gypsum Fibrosum, Radix Glycyrrhizae, Flos Lonicerae, Radix Astragali, Fructus Forsythiae, Radix Isatidis, Herba Houttuyniae, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae and Radix Ophiopogonis.

Description: This product is a brownish red liquid, with a small amount of precipitation after being left for a long time. It tastes bitter and slightly sweet.

Four effects: clearing away heat, relieving cough, relieving asthma and eliminating phlegm.

Indications: clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispersing lung qi, relieving cough, resolving phlegm and relieving asthma. Can be used for treating common cold, bronchitis, asthmatic bronchitis and bronchopneumonia.

Indications: clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispersing lung qi and resolving phlegm. Children catch a cold, have a fever, and cough repeatedly. The pathogenic heat of the child is caused by fever and sweating caused by lung defense, slight aversion to cold, cough, yellow sputum, or wheezing, dry mouth and thirst.

III. Drug Name Generic Name: Xiaoer Kechuanling Oral Liquid

Product name Xiaoer Kechuanling oral liquid

Ingredients: Herba Ephedrae, Gypsum Fibrosum, Bitter Almond, Fructus Trichosanthis, Radix Isatidis, Flos Lonicerae, and Radix Glycyrrhizae.

Indications: dispersing lung, clearing heat, relieving cough and eliminating phlegm. Used for cough caused by upper respiratory tract infection.

In addition, if the child's tongue coating is very thick, and his mouth smells, and his stool is unpleasant, smelly, and his stomach swells, and his parents have a history of eating too much, there will generally be food accumulation at the same time. At this time, you can boil water with 9 grams of Jiao Sanxian, which takes a long time, and it can be boiled for 20 minutes. While taking the medicine, give it to the child.

You can also choose the following Chinese patent medicines:

Drug Name Xiaoer Xiaoji Zhike Oral Liquid

ingredient

Crataegus pinnatifida (fried), Areca catechu, Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, Folium Eriobotryae (baked with honey), Fructus Trichosanthis, Raphani Semen (fried), Semen Lepidii (fried), Radix Platycodonis, Fructus Forsythiae, and Periostracum Cicadae.

indication

Clearing heat and regulating lung, resolving food stagnation and relieving cough. Cough used in children with food retention belongs to phlegm-heat syndrome, with symptoms such as cough, heavy night, phlegm in throat, abdominal distension, bad breath and so on.

When this stage of external cold and internal heat has passed, many children often return to the stage of external cold. At this time, the remaining evil spirits are not exhausted. Parents will find that the child's nose is clear again, the sputum is white, there are no major symptoms, and the nasal sound may be a little heavy. This is the evil spirits returning to the appearance. This is the third stage.

At this time, you can use a famous prescription in Chinese medicine called Zhisou Powder. The prescriptions are: Radix Platycodi, Herba Schizonepetae, Radix Asteris, Stemonae, Rhizoma Cynanchi Stauntonii, Radix Glycyrrhizae, and Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae. You can add Tussilago. Generally, the dosage of each medicine is 3 grams, which is the dosage of children aged five or six. It is best to ask nearby Chinese medicine practitioners to add or subtract it, so as to be safe.

And don't take more of this medicine, usually two or three days. Don't take it for a month at once, that's wrong.

This prescription was founded by Cheng Guopeng, a medical scientist in the Qing Dynasty, in "Understanding of Medical Mind". He himself said, "This prescription is warm and peaceful, neither cold nor hot, and there is no danger of over-attacking, and it is very likely to open the door to chase thieves. It is easy to disperse evil and calm the lungs."

Remember, when you boil the medicine, you should soak it for 20 minutes first, and then boil it for seven or eight minutes, so there is no need to boil it more.

This kind of children who often have respiratory diseases, especially those who have been controlled by many western medicines, I found that there is a considerable degree of imbalance between the spleen and stomach. Especially nowadays, food is also very complicated. Children usually like to eat snacks or junk food. Therefore, when I look at this disease, when the child has no acute attack, I usually start with regulating the spleen and stomach, regardless of his respiratory system. As a result, it was found that when the spleen and stomach were well conditioned, the incidence of respiratory system of the child decreased and gradually recovered, so I realized that the child's illness lay in conditioning the spleen and stomach. The recipe I usually use is the addition and subtraction of Bazhen cake by Chen Shigong, a physician of the Ming Dynasty. You can refer to it.

Cough caused by exogenous pathogens is the attack of exogenous pathogens, which leads to the struggle between good and evil. Modern medicine says that there is inflammation, and then there is any immune response, etc. Therefore, I always think that removing inflammation is the key, so for the initial cough, it is enough to use the prescription for treating cold, and it is enough to distinguish between cold and heat. In the stage of external cold, perilla leaf, ginger and scallion are soaked in boiling water, but this stage is very short.

It should be noted that when we have just coughed, we mainly use drugs with externally dispersed properties to spread the pathogenic factors upward and outward, so we use drugs such as Peucedanum, Saposhnikovia divaricata, etc. My experience is to try not to use drugs with downward properties such as almonds and loquat leaves until the exogenous factors are almost dispersed.

When is it almost time? I just don't have any fever, and the exogenous symptoms are not obvious, but I cough mechanically. At this time, I can add drugs according to cold and heat. If the nose is clear and the phlegm is white, I will halve the amount of Flos Lonicerae, Fructus Forsythiae, Herba Taraxaci and Herba Violae, then add 6 grams of Flos Farfarae, 6 grams of Radix Asteris and 9 grams of almond (mashed, then down), and if the phlegm is yellow, I will add 6 grams of loquat leaf.

If there is no phlegm in a dry cough, you should see a doctor to see if it is a dry cough.

I think it's wind-heat cough. After drinking Qingkailing and Chuanbei Pipa cream for a few days, my cold got better, but my cough didn't stop. As a result, after reading Zhang Xichun's medical opinion on yam in your new book, I cooked about 4 ounces of yam for my children to drink, and I stopped coughing the next day.

It depends on the color of children's phlegm or snot, whether it is yellow or clear, so as to distinguish cold and heat. However, if the fever goes down and only cough remains, there is no need to worry. A pair of medicine will not take effect immediately. Cough is a normal response of children to expel evil spirits. You can't use a lot of cough medicine just because adults are worried, which will leave evil spirits in the body. I think it is necessary to continue taking medicine to help him expel evil spirits. This may take a process, so don't worry.

There are many problems with children's lungs now, and I even think that most of them are children's lungs.

Later, I thought about it and thought it was related to the current air quality. No matter how big or small the city is, the pollution is very serious. The air we breathe is not as good as before, so the child's respiratory system is also tested.

In addition, some parents' improper feeding leads to children's spleen and stomach injuries. Spleen and stomach belong to the soil in the five elements, and lungs belong to gold, which means that the spleen is the mother of the lungs, and the lungs will certainly not feel better if the spleen is injured. This is the truth in Chinese medicine.

So, if the lungs are injured, how to recuperate?

My first opinion is: in the stable period of children, we should seize the opportunity to recuperate the spleen and stomach for children.

This is also my consistent practice. My experience is that if children with weak lung meridians do not regulate their spleen and stomach in a stable period, they will be in a state of exhaustion until the disease of lung meridians breaks out, constantly fighting for new diseases, being busy with coping, and always being in a passive state.

Many parents are like this: the child caught a cold and coughed, so he went to the hospital quickly, sought visits from famous doctors everywhere, took a lot of medicine, and the effect was slow (because the child was not healthy enough). Then after a long treatment, he finally recovered. As a result, the weather suddenly changed, the child began to get sick again, and the parents almost collapsed ...

I've seen many such parents, and some of them have even become neurotic. Looking at them, my heart feels sour and I feel I need to tell them the truth of Chinese medicine.

At this time, my method is to tonify the spleen and stomach, using the idea of Bazhen cake.

This Bazhen cake was founded by Chen Shigong, a surgeon in the Ming Dynasty. Chen Shigong, a master surgeon in traditional Chinese medicine, lived in his eighties and was a long-lived old man. He spoke highly of this recipe, thinking that the benefits were inexhaustible. This is why Qianlong insisted on taking this recipe later, and as a result, Qianlong lived to be 89 years old. In the Ming Dynasty, this recipe was given to the princes, and later Cixi also ate it in the Qing Dynasty, but Cixi's prescription was slightly modified.

This eight treasures cake, you can refer to what I wrote in my blog and book. Its main ingredients are some medicine and food homologous things, mainly Pseudostellaria heterophylla (or Codonopsis pilosula), Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria, Chinese yam, lotus seed meat, Coix seed, Euryale euryales, white lentils and so on.

Last night, I also discussed this issue with Dr. He Jian, a western medicine expert who came back from the United States. At the invitation of Union Medical College, Dr. He founded the Union Medical Laboratory R&D Center, which is an extremely high-end physical examination center and uses the most advanced inspection facilities in the world. Yesterday, we discussed how this Bazhen cake regulates the spleen and stomach. Dr. He thought that some of its ingredients supplemented the lack of human body. He took out an American health care product from his pocket, saying that it was a food fermented thing. It suddenly occurred to me that this may be American traditional Chinese medicine. Dr. He said that in fact, there are many Chinese medicines in American nutrition.

This is the idea of western medicine, and some substances in Bazhen cake supplement the lack of nutrients in our body, which are not usually ingested.

The idea of traditional Chinese medicine is based on its own system. We think that Bazhen cake supplements some contents, but it also spills out some, for example, we think that the water is wet, and the poria cocos and coix seed in the prescription are all dampness-removing.

As for the supplementary content, we think it is divided into yin and yang, and spleen yin and spleen yang are supplemented. We will adjust the proportion according to the situation.

These are medicines and foods of the same origin, but they are very different from what we usually eat. It is not that we can solve this problem by eating Coicis Semen and white lentils casually. Under the guidance of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, we will have a very precise adjustment.

For example, I will adjust the proportion of each medicine according to the thickness of the child's tongue coating, which is to adjust the proportion of reinforcing and reducing. If the tongue coating is thick, it is necessary to increase the weight of drugs such as Coicis Semen and increase the power of relieving dampness. If the tongue coating is thin, it is necessary to increase the proportion of drugs that tonify the spleen; Then, according to the degree of red tongue, adjust the increase or decrease of drugs, which is a balance between tonifying yin and yang, because red tongue is insufficient spleen yin and pale tongue is insufficient spleen yang.

This is the beauty of TCM theory, which can give us great guidance.

So, what should be done in the stage of children's acute attack?

My point of view is: we should spread the lung to drive away evil spirits, not keep evil spirits.

Generally, when children cough due to exogenous diseases, our parents should have a clear understanding, and don't panic. Many parents feel heartbroken when they hear their children cough, and then they are in a hurry, often describing their illness with exaggerated words. In this way, doctors often make wrong judgments, and some mothers just ask doctors to stop coughing. As a result, doctors use some convergent drugs such as terminalia chebula, Schisandra chinensis and rice husk. In this way, pathogens are often hidden in children's bodies.

In fact, don't be afraid of coughing, because coughing is the body's own reaction, which is the same as treating diarrhea. In Chinese medicine, if you think that the patient has pathogenic factors and hasn't excreted them, you should give the patient with diarrhea a laxative, which is called "universal". For example, Zhu Danxi treated his classmate's diarrhea, and finally he used Chengqi Decoction to recover from it.

Treating exogenous cough is the same as treating exogenous cough. At this time, cough is really upward. However, because of pathogenic factors, we need to help the body and use some drugs with upward properties, so as to publicize the pathogenic factors. Therefore, in the early and middle stages of exogenous cough, we will use some drugs such as Peucedanum, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Schizonepeta and Platycodon grandiflorum. These drugs are upward and outward, and almond and loquat cannot be used alone at the beginning.

In the junior middle school of exogenous cough, because cough is often caused by a cold, it is very important to control the cold. At this time, it is very important to distinguish the color of nose and phlegm. Many parents are not good at observing these contents, so they can't always distinguish between cold and heat. Generally, if the nose is wet and yellow, it must be hot, so the medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying must be used. Generally, I will mix some medicines such as forsythia and Shuanghua slightly. If the nose and phlegm are white, we need to pay attention to whether the cold evil is heavy.

Many times, both cold and heat are used together. For example, a child had a cough due to exogenous factors, and his parents were anxious. The effect of seeking a prescription for medical treatment was not obvious, and it was ineffective after taking the medicine for several days. Finally, he called me. I heard that the illness described by her was a cold in the outside, and at this time, the child was still cold in the outside, but the heat in the inside was also obvious. So I told her to take Zhang Zhongjing's Maxing Shigan Decoction for the child, which was ephedra and almond. In the prescription, ephedra spreads the lung to disperse the cold, gypsum is clear in the interior and hot in the interior, almond lowers the lung to relieve cough, and fried licorice is neutral. Here, I use honey ephedra for my child, which is mild. As a result, after the child took the medicine, one pair of cough basically stopped, and two pairs recovered. At that time, the parent described that all the people in the family were stunned (including grandpa and grandma) and regarded it as a divine prescription. This is the charm of Zhang Zhongjing's classic prescription. The so-called one dose knows, two doses have been.

In the later stage of exogenous cough, because exogenous pathogenic factors have weakened, some drugs for lowering lung qi can be used to restrain lung qi at this time. At this time, it is still necessary to distinguish between cold and heat. If it is cold and the nose is still clear, use Aster and Farfara flowers to keep the lungs warm, usually two or three grams, but only five or six grams for adults. If it is still hot, use some drugs such as loquat leaves. If the lung qi still does not converge, you can use some astringent drugs such as Schisandra chinensis and terminalia chebula.

I want to write about children's exogenous diseases several times, but I think this acute attack stage should be handled by doctors, not by parents themselves, so it is easy to delay children. So I just write it here briefly, so that everyone can understand some of the truth, so that when seeking medical treatment, I know it well, but in the end, I still need doctors to handle it.

What parents can do is to adjust the child's spleen and stomach when there is no problem.

Many parents are anxious to seek medical treatment when their children are in an acute state. I have received many emails from parents, all of which are "Save my child, he has been coughing for a day and a night!" This makes me very anxious. I can't bear to read these emails and always want to help. However, when I think about it carefully, I can't help anything, because at this time, I haven't seen the child, and I can't judge the child's cold and fever. I will give you advice at will, which will delay the child's illness. Therefore, in this case, the best choice for parents is to go to the hospital and find a doctor to solve the problem, so that the child can get through this cold smoothly.

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