Yam and Lotus Seed Porridge

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Yam and Lotus Seed Porridge

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, children's spleen is often insufficient, and they are more likely to suffer from diarrhea due to the "raid" of dampness, turbidity and coldness when the weather changes. It is recommended that parents consciously feed their children some spleen and stomach nourishing foods in their daily diet, such as using yam, hawthorn, and coix seed to make soup or porridge. For children who are already ill, the diet should be mainly light liquid or semi-liquid food, and the children should be encouraged to drink more rice water with salt to maintain sufficient body fluids to prevent dehydration.

Introduction to Chinese Yam and Lotus Seed Porridge

"Children's spleen is often insufficient. If the wind and cold evil directly hits the spleen and stomach, or if they are affected by dampness and turbidity due to not paying attention to dietary hygiene, diarrhea will occur." Xiao Damin said that from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, whether a child gets sick or not is closely related to the function of his spleen and stomach. In autumn and winter, you can appropriately cook some soup or porridge with hawthorn, malt, barley sprouts, lentils, yam, duck kidneys, etc. to regulate the spleen and stomach, or find a traditional Chinese medicine doctor to observe, smell, ask and palpate, and add tangerine peel, northern astragalus, codonopsis, etc. or ophiopogon, coix seed, etc. to cook soup or porridge according to whether the child is cold or hot, so as to enhance the spleen and stomach function of children, improve immunity and prevent diarrhea. The following are a few examples of eating methods for reference:

Yam and Lotus Seed Porridge

Make porridge with hawthorn (about 50 grams) and lotus seeds (20-30 grams) for your baby. Cook the lotus seeds and porridge until they are soft enough and eat them together. For children under 1 year old, crush the yam and lotus seeds as much as possible. The dry ones can be ground into powder and then mixed with rice soup to make a paste for feeding. This porridge can warm the stomach and strengthen the spleen, and is most suitable for children with insufficient spleen yang.