Dietary Therapy for Childhood Pneumonia
Pneumonia is one of the most common respiratory diseases in children, typically presenting with high fever, coughing, flaring nostrils, and sometimes vomiting, convulsions, runny nose, and phlegm production. It commonly occurs during winter and spring, mainly triggered by cold exposure or catching a cold.
1. 5 segments of pomelo flesh, 60g dried cabbage, 15g astragalus root, 250g lean pork. All ingredients boiled into a soup, consumed daily in two doses. Helps boost qi, nourish yin, moisten lungs, and resolve phlegm.
2. 50g lily bulbs, 200g coix seed. Add 5 bowls of water, decoct down to 3 bowls, divide into three portions, consume daily.
3. 30g walnut kernels, 30g rock sugar, 150g pear. Grind all ingredients finely, add water and boil. Take 1 spoonful each time, three times daily.
4. 10g apricot kernels (skin and tip removed, crushed), 1–2 pears, appropriate rock sugar. Cut pears, remove core, boil with apricot kernels until soft, add rock sugar, serve as tea.
5. 10g codonopsis root, 15 jujubes (pits removed), 150g glutinous rice. Add adequate water, cook into porridge, sweeten with rock sugar.
6. 10g apricot kernels (skin and tip removed), grind into juice via water extraction, 30g glutinous rice. Boil together into porridge.
Remember: During fever, diet should be light and easily digestible, preferably liquid or semi-liquid foods such as congee, rice flour, lotus root starch, fruit juices, mung bean soup, etc. Drink plenty of fluids and maintain regular bowel movements.