My child’s tonsils are often inflamed, his voice is hoarse, and he coughs repeatedly. What should he eat?

Since children are not fully developed in all aspects and have a relatively weak resistance to diseases, what should they eat if they often suffer from tonsillitis, hoarseness, and recurrent coughing?

Recommended way to eat: Stir-fried black fungus with lily and loofah

Luffa is good at clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and is especially suitable for people with hot coughs with a lot of phlegm and thick yellow phlegm. This is because the loofah contains a saponin in its plant mucus, which has the effect of removing phlegm and reducing phlegm.

People who have coughs due to lung heat or wind-heat invading the lungs, and often spit out pus and sputum, should drink a decoction of loofah.

Recommended way to eat: Licorice loofah soup with pomegranate

Pomegranate

It has the effect of promoting salivation and relieving thirst. Those who suffer from insufficient body fluid, dry mouth and throat can drink pomegranate juice or decoction, which can clear away heat, detoxify, moisten the lungs and relieve cough.

Suggested way to eat: Tofu with freshly squeezed pomegranate juice

Tofu has the effect of clearing heat and moistening dryness. It is especially suitable for those whose cough is caused by wind-heat or lung heat.

Recommended way to eat: tofu with tomato sauce, white radish

White radish

Radish is a cruciferous herb with a mild and slightly cold nature. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, strengthening the stomach and aiding food, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, relieving qi and facilitating bowel movements, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and nourishing the middle and calming the internal organs.

Recommended way to eat: Shrimp with radish and winter melon

Winter melon

Winter melon is cool in nature and can eliminate phlegm and clear away heat. Anyone who suffers from wind-heat cough or lung-heat cough should choose to drink winter melon stewed soup.

Recommended way to eat: Clam and winter melon soup with pear

Pears have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, moistening the lungs and promoting fluid production, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. Eating them raw or juicing them has a good therapeutic effect on cough, measles, chronic cough, bronchitis and other diseases. It is better if squeezed with water chestnuts, honey, sugarcane and other juices.

Recommended way to eat: wolfberry, snow pear, almond syrup

almond

In autumn, it is easy for autumn dryness to deplete body fluids, causing dry mouth, tongue and sore throat. Almonds can moisten the lungs and relieve coughs, and have a certain effect on alleviating symptoms such as dry cough without phlegm, lung deficiency and long-term cough.

Suggested way to eat: almonds mixed with celery leaves