🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Spring follows harsh winters, with still-low temperatures and variable weather—sudden shifts between cold and warm. Children are prone to respiratory infectious diseases such as colds, coughs, pneumonia, measles, and chickenpox during this season.
Spring brings mild weather, bright sunshine, and flourishing life. Children also grow vigorously, with active organ functions and increased activity. Adequate nutrition should be provided. Preparing balanced, mild, spleen-lung-tonifying, and body-strengthening soups based on food properties offers excellent benefits for spring diet:
1. Lotus Seed and Lily Soup: Tonifies spleen and stomach, moistens lungs, calms the mind, and soothes the spirit. Suitable for daily consumption by children. Ingredients: 15g lotus seeds, 15g dried lily bulbs, 1 egg, appropriate sugar. Remove lotus seed cores, combine with lily bulbs in a clay pot, add water, simmer gently until lotus seeds are soft. Then add egg and sugar. Once the egg is cooked, it’s ready to eat.
2. Southern Apricot Moisturizing Lung Soup: Tonifies lung qi, moistens lungs, and relieves cough and phlegm. Ideal for dry weather or for children with weak lungs prone to coughing. Also useful during recovery from pneumonia. Ingredients: 12g southern apricot, 9g northern apricot, 4 honey dates, 200g pig lung. Peel apricots, wash pig lung, cut into small pieces, stir-fry lightly in oil, add water, place with honey dates in a clay pot, simmer for 1–2 hours, ready to eat.
3. Lotus Seed and Crucian Carp Soup: Tonifies qi, strengthens spleen, and consolidates the kidneys. Suitable for children with weak spleen, poor appetite, irregular bowel movements, or general children to enhance spleen function. Ingredients: 15g lotus seeds, 15g Huainan yam, 1 crucian carp (~150g). Remove scales, gills, and internal organs from carp, fry lightly in oil until golden, then combine with lotus seeds and yam in a clay pot, add water, simmer for 1 hour, season with salt, ready to eat.
4. Floating Wheat and Pig Heart Soup: Tonifies spleen and qi, calms the spirit, and enhances brain function. Ingredients: 25g floating wheat, 5 jujubes, 1 pig heart, 6g longan flesh. Split pig heart lengthwise, wash out blood, remove jujube seeds, combine all ingredients in a pot, add water, simmer for 1 hour, season and serve.
5. Ginseng, Atractylodes, and Jujube Soup: Tonifies spleen and qi, commonly used for tiredness, poor appetite, and constipation in children. Suitable for general children to stimulate appetite. Ingredients: 10g codonopsis, 20g poria, 6g white atractylodes, 5 jujubes, 1 fresh duck kidney. Crush poria, remove jujube seeds, split duck kidney, wash duck gallbladder, combine all ingredients in a pot, add water, simmer for 1 hour, season and serve.