Today is the summer solstice! Improve your baby's physique, enhance immunity, and seize this critical season!

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The summer solstice is the tenth solar term in the year. The sun travels to 90 degrees ecliptic longitude and almost directly hits the Tropic of Cancer. This day has the longest day and shortest night in a year, and the yang energy of the human body is the most prosperous. After the summer solstice, the yang qi gradually weakens and the yin qi grows.

In this issue of "Twenty-Four Solar Terms", we invited Dr. Li Qian, the chief pediatrician of the Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, to continue to talk about how to improve children's physique through "treatment of winter diseases in summer".

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What is "winter disease and summer cure"?

"Summer treatment for winter diseases" is based on the theory of "nourishing yang in spring and summer, and nourishing yin in autumn and winter", using the summer when the yang qi of the human body is most prosperous to replenish yang qi in the body, eliminate cold and damp pathogens, and treat certain types of deficiency and cold. To the greatest extent possible, use yang to overcome cold to achieve the effect of treating both the symptoms and root causes and preventing and health care.

In the dog days after the summer solstice, when the yin and cold qi in the human body are easy to resolve, the method of supplementing and invigorating the yang qi in the body can be used to dispel cold and prevent diseases. For some diseases that are prone to attack and recurrence in winter (such as bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis, chronic cough, repeated respiratory tract infections, etc.), if correct treatment and nourishment are taken at this time, the onset of the disease can be slowed down, or its symptoms can be alleviated, or even achieve a healing effect.

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How to do it?

There are many ways to help Yang in traditional Chinese medicine. For children, there are common acupoint application, massage, oral administration of traditional Chinese medicine, moxibustion, etc. No matter which method is used, parents must be under the guidance of professional doctors↓

Acupoint application

Acupoint application is the main method of winter disease and summer treatment. It is one of the external treatment methods of traditional Chinese medicine to treat diseases through the stimulation of acupoints, meridians and the pharmacological effects of traditional Chinese medicine itself. , usually in dog days.

After the summer solstice, the pores of the human body are loose, and the drugs can easily penetrate. At this time, external medicines with astringency and warmth, such as ginger, white mustard seed, Corydalis, asarum, etc., are used and applied to specific acupuncture points of the body, which can prevent and treat a variety of diseases that are easy to occur in autumn and winter.

Parents, please note that acupoint application can only be carried out after going to the hospital under the guidance of a professional doctor!

ginger

white mustard

Yanhuso

Asarum

Tui Na massage

For children under the age of 6, Tuina massage is more effective. The following methods are recommended, please do it under the guidance of a professional doctor:

1. Massage Zusanli

Zusanli: Located 3 inches below Dubi, on the line connecting Dubi and Jiexi.

Operation method: massage Zusanli about 300 times.

2. Clear the spleen meridian

Spleen Meridian: The junction of the red flesh and the white flesh on the radial side of the thumb.

Operation method: Push back and forth between the fingertip and the base of the finger about 300 times.

3. Massage the Neilao Palace

Neilau Palace: In the palm of the child, when the middle finger is flexed, the position of the fingertips.

Operation method: Use the ribbed surface of the thumb to stick closely to the baby's Neilao Gong point, and do repeated, rhythmic, gentle and gentle circular movements about 300 times.

4. Massage the foreign labor palace

The part of the foreign labor palace: in the back of the hand, opposite to the inner labor palace, between the 3rd and 4th metacarpal bones on the back of the hand.

Operation method: Hold the child's left hand with the palm facing down, bend the child's ring finger and little finger at a 90-degree angle to the palm surface, so that the acupuncture points are exposed, and rub the thumb thread surface around 300 times.

Oral Chinese medicine

Each child's acceptance of Chinese medicine is different. If children have weak resistance and are prone to illness, such as asthma, rhinitis and other diseases that are prone to attack and recurrence in winter, or indigestion, anorexia, chronic diarrhea, etc., Chinese medicine can be given to the baby. Condition the body.

Oral Chinese medicine should be administered under the guidance of a Chinese medicine physician, according to each child's different physique and physical condition.

moxibustion

For baby moxibustion, you can choose three acupoints: Shenzhu, Shenque, and Zusanli. Please do it under the guidance of a professional doctor:

Shenzhu acupoint belongs to the Governor Vessel. Moxibustion on the body can strengthen the body and eliminate diseases. It has the functions of clearing yang and regulating qi, nourishing lung qi, relieving cough and relieving asthma, and promoting fatigue recovery. It is one of the main methods for preventing and treating diseases in childhood.

Shenque acupoint is an important acupoint of Ren meridian, and moxibustion Shenque can regulate the deficiency of children.

Zusanli acupoint belongs to the stomach meridian, and moxibustion at this acupoint can regulate the spleen and stomach, clear the meridians and activate collaterals, strengthen the body and eliminate pathogenic factors.

Focus! When doing moxibustion, pay attention to the following:

1. Moxibustion 1-2 times a week. According to the child's age and level of cooperation, step by step. The moxibustion time should not be too long, generally 3 to 5 minutes per acupoint.

2. In a well-ventilated, clean and dry room.

3. Children can wear masks to avoid inhaling excessive moxa.

4. During the moxibustion period, the child should be closely observed to prevent burns.

Our kids are healthy, should we do this too?

Of the above methods, tuina massage is suitable for most children. Acupoint application mainly corresponds to some diseases that are prone to attack and recurrence in winter.

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What should babies eat during the summer solstice?

Chinese medicine believes that the sour taste can stop sweating and solidify the surface, and the salty taste can nourish the heart. Summer children's diet should be sour and salty food. "Summer solstice San Geng is several heads", the summer heat is aggressive, the weather is complex and changeable, children have a strong metabolism, lose a lot of water, and are most prone to injury and gas consumption. You can eat more sour and salty foods and soups. Sour foods such as chicken, duck, fish, lean meat, onion, wax gourd, millet, hawthorn, bayberry, peaches, etc.

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Summer Solstice Children's Meal Recommendations

Noodles with Shredded Chicken and Sesame Sauce

Ingredients: 200g chicken, half a cucumber, half a carrot, 100g mung bean sprouts, 20g sesame paste, 250g noodles, soy sauce, vinegar, and appropriate amount of oil

Method:

1. Cook the chicken, let it cool and tear it into shreds;

2. Shred cucumbers and carrots, cook carrots and mung bean sprouts for 1 minute, remove them;

3. Cook the noodles in boiling water;

4. Mix sesame paste, soy sauce, vinegar, and a spoonful of water to form a dipping sauce;

5. Serve the noodles with shredded chicken, shredded cucumber, shredded carrots, mung bean sprouts, pour the sauce and mix well.

Efficacy: Warm the middle and replenish qi, strengthen the spleen and stomach

chicken

Nutrition: Chicken is flat, warm, and sweet in taste. Chicken is low in fat and high in protein and is easily digested by the human body.

carrot

Nutrition: Carrots are flat and sweet, can invigorate the spleen and eliminate food, nourish the liver and improve eyesight, and help to enhance the body's immunity.

Loofah Tofu Fish Head Soup

Ingredients: 1 loofah, 1 box of tender tofu, 1 fish head, 3 slices of ginger, scallion white, cooking wine, salt, appropriate amount of oil

Method:

1. Cut the loofah into 4-5 cm long sections; wash the fish head, remove the gills and cut both sides, and cut the tender tofu into pieces;

2. Pour oil into the pot and heat it to 60%, add ginger and scallion and saute until fragrant;

3. Add the fish head, pour in the cooking wine and stir-fry for 2-3 minutes, add an appropriate amount of boiling water, cook on high heat for ten minutes, then add the loofah and tofu, low heat for fifteen minutes, then add salt, and serve immediately after serving.

Efficacy: clearing heat and cooling blood, nourishing yin and promoting body fluid, clearing meridians and activating collaterals

Tofu

Nutrition: Tofu is a nourishing and heat-clearing health food. Tofu is rich in protein, contains eight essential amino acids for human body, and has high nutritional value.

sour plum soup

Ingredients: 30 grams of ebony, 25 grams of dried hawthorn, 10 grams of licorice, 5 grams of dried tangerine peel, 60 grams of rock sugar (can be adjusted as needed), 1500ml of purified water

Method:

1. Wash the black plum, hawthorn, licorice and dried tangerine peel with clean water and put them in a pot, add 1.5 liters of pure water to soak for 2 hours;

2. Put the ingredients into the pot with water, bring it to a boil over high heat, simmer on low heat for about 40 minutes, and add rock sugar to melt it;

3. After cooling, put it in a bottle and refrigerate.

Efficacy: digestion and neutralization, invigorating body fluid and quenching thirst, cooling and relieving summer heat, eliminating vexation and soothing the nerves

Nutrition: ebony is sour in taste, promotes body fluid and quenches thirst, astringes the lungs and relieves cough; dried hawthorn reduces food and strengthens the spleen; licorice tonifies the spleen and nourishes the qi, nourishes the heart and moistens the lung;

Tips

1. Avoid taking on an empty stomach.

2. Avoid being greedy when drinking. Do not drink it directly from the refrigerator. You can drink it after a while.

3. Don't be greedy: Because sour plum soup contains acidic substances, and the child's stomach and body are still relatively weak, eating too much is detrimental to health.

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Editor: Wang Tingjun

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