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Medicinal Porridge for Summer Heat in Children
Summer heat is a specific disease in infants and young children, mainly affecting children under 3 years old, with peak season from June to August. Main manifestations include persistent fever with rising summer temperatures, thirst, excessive drinking and urination, little or no sweating. TCM believes it's because children's organs are delicate, yin and yang are weak, body regulation is not yet perfect, combined with congenital deficiency or post-illness weakness, children cannot tolerate external heat, pathogenic heat invades. This disease has long course, persistent fever can lower children's resistance, easily complicate other diseases and affect growth, so parents must pay attention. Here are some medicinal porridges for summer heat.
Lotus Leaf Porridge: Take 2 large fresh lotus leaves, wash and decoct 500ml juice, add japonica rice 30g to make thin porridge, add rock sugar for seasoning, take morning and evening. Clears heat and relieves summer heat, suitable for persistent fever from summer heat.
Kudzu Root Porridge: Take kudzu powder 20g and japonica rice 50g, cook with water to make porridge, take morning and evening. Eliminates summer heat and clears heat, generates fluids and quenches thirst, suitable for persistent fever from summer heat with dry mouth and thirst.
Lotus Leaf and Mung Bean Porridge: Take 1 large fresh lotus leaf, 20 fresh bamboo leaves, wash, decoct juice, cook mung beans 20g until blossoms, add japonica rice 30g to make thin porridge, take morning and evening. Eliminates summer heat and clears heat, harmonizes middle burner and nourishes stomach, suitable for summer heat fever with thirst and poor appetite.
Clear Summer Heat and Benefit Qi Porridge: American ginseng 1g, Ophiopogon 6g, Dendrobium 6g, Anemarrhena 6g, japonica rice 30g, rock sugar as needed. Wrap Ophiopogon, Dendrobium, Anemarrhena, decoct 30 minutes, remove herbs, add American ginseng powder and rice to make porridge, add rock sugar, take morning and evening. Clears summer heat and benefits qi, generates fluids and quenches thirst, suitable for persistent summer heat fever with little or no sweating.
Lotus Leaf and Lotus Root Porridge: Take 1 large fresh lotus leaf, 1 small fresh lotus root, japonica rice 30g, rock sugar as needed. Decoct lotus leaf to make 500ml juice, cut lotus root into small pieces, cook with rice in juice, add rock sugar for seasoning, take 3 times daily. Clears heat and relieves summer heat, harmonizes stomach, suitable for summer heat with poor appetite.
Silkworm Cocoon, Red Date, and Hyacinth Bean Porridge: Take 10 silkworm cocoons, 15 red dates, 10g hyacinth beans, japonica rice 30g. Decoct cocoons to make 500ml juice, add pitted dates, hyacinth beans, rice to make porridge, take morning and evening. Benefits qi and clears summer heat, strengthens spleen and harmonizes middle burner, suitable for summer heat with fatigue, poor appetite, loose stools.