In traditional Chinese medicine, children’s organs are tender, their yin and yang immature, and their regulatory systems not yet fully developed. Those with congenital insufficiency or post-illness weakness cannot withstand intense summer heat. When heat pathogens invade due to weakened defenses, illness occurs. Here are several medicinal porridge recipes for treating pediatric summer heat:
1. Lotus Leaf Porridge: Use two large fresh lotus leaves, wash clean, boil to make about 500 ml of decoction, filter the liquid, add 30 g rice, cook into a thin porridge, add appropriate sugar for flavor. Consume morning and evening. This formula clears heat and dispels summer heat, suitable for children with persistent high fever during summer.
2. Kudzu Porridge: Use 20 g kudzu starch and 50 g rice, add appropriate water, cook into porridge, consume morning and evening. This formula clears summer heat, relieves fever, generates body fluids, and quenches thirst, suitable for children with persistent high fever and dry mouth during summer.
3. Heat-Clearing Qi-Nourishing Porridge: Use 1 g American ginseng, 6 g ophiopogon, 6 g dendrobium, 6 g anemarrhena, 30 g rice, and appropriate rock sugar. First, wrap ophiopogon, dendrobium, and anemarrhena in cloth, boil in water for 30 minutes, strain and keep the liquid. Then add powdered American ginseng and rice, cook into thin porridge, add rock sugar for flavor. Consume morning and evening. This formula clears heat, nourishes qi, generates body fluids, and quenches thirst, suitable for children with persistent high fever, no sweat or minimal sweating during summer heat.
4. Lotus Leaf and Lotus Root Porridge: Use one large fresh lotus leaf, one small piece of fresh lotus root, 30 g rice, and appropriate sugar. First, wash lotus leaf, boil to make about 500 ml of decoction, filter the liquid. Then wash lotus root, cut into small pieces, add to the liquid with rice, cook into a thin porridge. Add sugar for flavor and consume three times daily. This formula clears heat, dispels summer heat, and harmonizes the stomach, suitable for summer heat with poor appetite.
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