How to treat indigestion in children? What are the dietary remedies for indigestion in children?

Nowadays, there are many children who don’t like to eat, and they always spit out the food their parents feed them. This phenomenon makes many parents start to worry, suspecting that their children have a very serious problem. Finally, they find out that their children are actually suffering from indigestion. What are the folk prescriptions for treating indigestion?

What are some folk remedies for indigestion in children?

1. Hawthorn porridge

Ingredients: 20 grams of hawthorn, 100 grams of polished rice, 10 grams of white sugar.

Method: First put the hawthorn into a casserole and boil it, take the thick juice and remove the residue, then add rice, sugar and water to cook porridge.

Method: Adjust diet or snack, not suitable for eating on an empty stomach, 7 days as a course of treatment.

Function: Strengthen the spleen and stomach, help digestion, and disperse blood stasis. Suitable for food stagnation, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and children's indigestion of milk and food.

Hawthorn contains lipase and hawthorn acid, which can promote the decomposition of fat and protein; hawthorn decoction has antibacterial effects on Shigella dysenteriae, Proteus, and Escherichia coli, and is a good product for treating gastrointestinal diseases. However, hawthorn is an acidic food, so patients with gastric ulcers should not eat too much of this medicinal diet; hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and blood stasis, so pregnant women should not eat too much.

2. Boil carrots in water and add brown sugar or tea to treat simple indigestion in infants.

3. Apply 1 gram of pepper powder to the navel, secure with tape, and change it every other day to treat indigestion in children or adults.

4. Boil 15-30 grams of lentil flowers in water and add sugar to treat indigestion in children.

5. Codonopsis pilosula porridge: 20 grams of Codonopsis pilosula and 50 grams of polished rice. First fry the polished rice until it turns yellow and black, then cook it with Codonopsis pilosula and drink the porridge soup after it is cooked. It has the effects of replenishing the middle qi, spleen and stomach, quenching thirst and stopping diarrhea. It is suitable for diseases such as spleen deficiency, indigestion, chronic gastritis, stomach and duodenal ulcers.