Colds usually characterized by disruption of respiratory and digestive tracts. Flatulence, nausea, vomiting, cough, runny nose, and mouth sores are some of the signs. Here are some herbs to address them.
The tradition of drinking traditional herbs or medicinal plants have been abandoned people. No other because most people no longer know the usefulness of the plants for treatment.
In fact, some people think it is an ancient traditional ingredients, fuss, bitter, odor, and is ineffective. In fact, according to Yellia Manganese, herbalists and practitioners of traditional medicine in Jakarta, a traditional herb is quite effective for treating diseases in children, especially minor ailments such as colds, fever, diarrhea, or colds. All that with a note, when within 3 days of no symptoms improve, the child should still be taken to the doctor.
Use of materials derived from nature, including plants and minerals for the health of the body, its power is relatively slow. However, as described Drs. Bambang Mursito, Apt, MSi., Lecturer at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Pancasila, Jakarta, some circles of the opinion that side effects resulting from the use of natural materials no larger than the drug ingredients are made synthetically.
Problem dose, according to Yellia, herb made from medicinal plants did have a pretty dangerous effects if excessive, such as the incidence of nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and diarrhea. Conversely, if the dose is too little, can not be effective and long recovery.
"So, if you do not believe the size of the herb, it is safer to ask or an experienced herbalist. It could also be based on the books potion, "he said.
Here herb laxative respiratory and digestive offered Drs. Bambang Mursito, Apt, M.Sc.
Indigestion
The signs of colds in children digestive tract disorders, including nausea, vomiting, and colds. Other symptoms, ie, canker sores, bloating and colic, intestinal worms, constipation, diarrhea, and poor appetite.
The following herbs to address the digestive tract disorders:
1. Sprue
Ingredients: 1 finger ginger rhizome, 1 finger tamarind, palm sugar, 1 cup water
Usage: Rinse and ginger, then slice thinly. Cook together acid and water until boiling. Once cool, strain. Add palm sugar, stirring. Drink every morning and afternoon, each 1 / 2 cup.
Ingredients: 10 pieces of betel leaf, 1 cup water
Usage: Wash the leaves of the betel. Cook with a glass of water to boil in covered pot. Once cool, strain. The water used to rinse his mouth before eating. Do it every day until cured.
2. Bloating and Heartburn
Ingredients: 5 pieces of white pomegranate leaf, 1 / 2 cup water
Usage: Wash material while knead. Add water and cook until boiling. Once cool, strain. Drink the water at once. Do it 3 times a day.
Ingredients: 1 / 2 finger ginger rhizome, 1 / 2 thumbs tamarind fruit, 1 / 2 thumbs palm sugar, 1 / 2 cup water
Usage: Rinse and ginger, then grate. Add the tamarind and water, then wring it out. Add the palm sugar into the lemon water, and mix until homogenous. Drink every morning and evening until recovery.
3. Wormy
Ingredients: 3 finger rhizome of ginger, 1 tablespoon honey, 1 1 / 2 cup water
Usage: Wash the ginger with water, then slice thinly. Cook until boiling. Once cool, strain. Add honey, stirring until homogeneous. Drink 3 times a day, each 1 / 2 cup.
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons of papaya seeds, 1 tablespoon honey, 1 cup boiled water
Usage: Wash papaya seeds, blended with hot water, then wring it out. Add the honey. Drink all at once. Do it every morning until cured.
4. Constipation
Ingredients: 20 grams of aloe vera leaves, 2 tablespoons honey
Usage: Peel the leaves of aloe vera. Insert meat aloe leaf in a container, add the honey. Stir until homogeneous. Drink every morning and evening until the constipation disappeared.
Ingredients: 1 finger ginger rhizome, 1 / 2 cup water
Usage: Wash the ginger rhizome, slice thinly. Cook until boiling. Once cool, strain. Drink the water at once. Do it every morning until cured.
5. Diarrhea and Vomiting
Ingredients: 3 teaspoons fennel, 5 pieces of guava leaves, bark 10 cm pulasari
Usage: Rinse fennel and guava leaves. Crushed fennel, whereas guava leaves cut into small pieces. Add 1 1 / 2 cup water and pulasari stems, and cook until boiling for 30 minutes. Once cool, strain. Water is taken each morning and afternoon, each 1 / 2 cup.
Ingredients: 20 pieces of bay leaves, 1 cup water
Usage: Wash bay leaf, then puree. Cook until boiling for 30 minutes. Once cool, strain. Water is taken each morning and afternoon, each 1 / 2 cup. Repeat until cured.
6. Less Appetite
Ingredients: 10 sheets gotu kola leaf, 1 1 / 2 cup water, 1 tablespoon honey.
Usage: Wash gotu kola leaf, and insert in a container and boil up to 15 minutes in a closed state. Once cool, strain. Add the honey. Drink this mixture three times a day, each 1 / 2 cup.
Ingredients: 1 finger rhizome of ginger, tamarind 10 grams, 30 grams of brown sugar, 1 1 / 2 cup water.
Usage: Rinse and ginger, then cut into small pieces. Enter the tamarind, cook until boiling in a closed state. Add sugar, stirring until homogeneous, then strain. Drink 3 times a day, each 1 / 2 cup.
Respiratory Disorders
Complaints about respiratory tract illness in the most common among children, especially in the rainy season or transition. A general guideline a disturbance in the respiratory system were cough, fever, difficulty breathing, wheezing, discomfort in the throat or chest, chest pain, blue lips, and snoring sound when breathing.
The following herbs to address it.
1. Cough
Ingredients: 30 grams of garlic, 25 grams of rock sugar, 1 cup boiled water
Usage: Peel the garlic skin, and then pulverized. Add rock sugar and 1 cup of boiled water, let stand for 5 minutes, then strain. Drink once a day, 1 tablespoon.
2. Asthma
Ingredients: 1 stick of reed rhizome, 1 / 2 finger rhizome kencur, five betel leaves, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon honey, 1 teaspoon lime juice
Usage: Wash all ingredients. Kencur reeds and cut into pieces, betel leaf knead. Cook until boiling in a closed state. Once cool, strain. Add honey and lemon juice, stirring until homogeneous. Drink once daily before bed, as much as 1 / 2 cup.
3. Fever
Ingredients: 3 pieces of bulb onion, 2 tablespoons coconut oil, 1 / 2 tablespoon of eucalyptus oil, 1 slice of orange juice.
Usage: Peel the onion, slice thinly, then destroy. Add the coconut oil, eucalyptus oil, lime juice and water. The mixture is stirred until homogeneous. Rub on armpits, back, abdomen, and head. Do it twice a day, every morning and evening. To clean, use warm water.
4. Cold
Ingredients: 5 pieces of onion bulbs, 5 pieces of garlic bulb, ginger rhizome 5 fingers, 2 glasses of water.
Usage: Ginger is washed, onion and garlic peeled and cut into small pieces. Add 2 cups water and cooked until boiling in a closed state. Once cool, strain. Drink 2 times a day, each 1 / 2 cup.
