In summer, the most important thing for parents to pay attention to is to prevent their babies from heatstroke. What are some good methods to help preschool children clear heat? The best way is definitely to reduce heat through food. Today, the editor will recommend foods suitable for preschool babies to reduce internal heat.
Summer baby's fire reducing vegetable
Cabbage: slightly cold in nature, has the effects of clearing heat and eliminating irritability, and promoting bowel movements.
Celery: It is cold in nature and can reduce liver fire and relieve heat in the lungs and stomach. It is beneficial for babies who are prone to "internal heat" to eat it regularly.
Lettuce: Slightly cold in nature, crispy and tender in texture, abundant in water, with the characteristics of clearing heat, regulating qi, and resolving phlegm. Suitable for babies with lung and stomach heat.
Jiaobai: It is cold in nature and suitable for babies with symptoms such as heat in the heart meridian, restlessness and thirst, dry stool, and yellow urine. It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. Lotus root: It has a mild and cold nature, and is best eaten raw or mashed. Its efficacy is to clear heat, produce fluids, moisten the lungs, and relieve cough. If taken together with pear juice, its effect is even better.
Eggplant: It has a cold nature and can clear heat and detoxify. When cooking with oil for babies who are prone to "overheating", steaming eggplant can be used instead.
Lily: It has a mild cold nature and has the effect of clearing heat, moistening lungs, and stopping cough. It has therapeutic effects on residual heat after fever, sore throat, irritability, and thirst. Bitter gourd: It has a cool nature, a bitter taste, and can relieve the six meridians and promote internal heat. It is a bitter, cold, and heat clearing food. Tomatoes: Although they can be seen all year round, tomatoes are the most abundant, sweet, and nutritious in summer. It can also clear heat and detoxify, calm the liver and reduce fire. Besides vegetables, what other foods can help babies reduce heat in summer?
Other foods for reducing baby's heat in summer
Soybeans: While nourishing yin and reducing inflammation, they can also supplement the protein consumed in large quantities due to high temperatures. Strawberries: Not only delicious, but also have medicinal value. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effect of dispelling heat, clearing heat, reducing fever, and relieving annoyance.
Green tea: In summer, people sweat a lot and consume a lot of body fluids. It is advisable to drink green tea at this time. Green tea has a bitter and cold taste, and has the functions of reducing heat, relieving heat, detoxifying, reducing fire, reducing dryness, quenching thirst, generating fluids, and strengthening the heart and refreshing the mind. Green tea has a sweet and fragrant taste with a slight bitter and cold taste, rich in nutrients such as vitamins, amino acids, minerals, etc. Drinking it can not only relieve heat and fever, but also add nutrients. Green beans: sweet and cold in nature, enter the heart and stomach meridians, and have the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, relieving heat, and diuresis. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, cooking mung beans can reduce swelling and lower qi, clear heat and detoxify, relieve heat and thirst, harmonize the five organs, calm the mind, replenish vitality, and moisturize the skin; Green bean powder can relieve various toxins, treat sores and swelling, and treat burns; Green bean skin can relieve heat toxicity and reduce eye strain. However, it should be noted that mung beans should not be overcooked to avoid damaging organic acids and vitamins, which may reduce their heat clearing and detoxifying effects. Due to the cool nature of mung beans, children with weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much. Moderate consumption is sufficient. Kelp: Not only does it help clear accumulated heat in the body, but it can also deal with physical exhaustion caused by excessive sweating. Kelp can be mixed cold or boiled in soup for consumption, among which beef kelp soup is particularly suitable for summer consumption, but children with hyperthyroidism should not eat kelp.
Qingbu Meat and Eggs: In summer, the "Qingbu" principle of clearing heat and dispelling dampness should be adopted, and various foods that are fresh, delicious, mild in nature, easy to digest, and not greasy should be selected for dietary regulation. You can choose to eat lean pork, duck, rabbit, Boiled -sliced cold chicken, Salted duck egg, steamed fresh fish and other foods rich in high-quality protein to increase protein intake. The main cooking methods are steaming and cold mixing, which promote appetite. If you want to lower your baby's fever in summer, eat more of the above foods.
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