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I’ve been suffering from cough for quite awhile since I caught the flu bug from Alicia earlier in the year.

This is one of the drinks I tried brewing in my desperate attempt to get well. I’m not sure how many times I’m supposed to drink it before I get well, but I only tried twice and I stopped – cough didn’t go away, but phlegm did though. 🙂

Anyway, my doctor just told me yesterday that my cough is more likely due to throat and airway sensitivity so he didn’t prescribe me with new cough syrup; instead he offered me medication for my throat. I hope it works!

止咳化痰饮料 (drink for cough and phlegm)

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止咳化痰饮料 (drink for ridding cough and phlegm)

Author: Simply Mommie

Traditional remedy for treating cough and ridding phlegm

Ingredients

½ liang chuan bei (川贝)
1tsp bitter almond
1tsp sweet almond
4 figs
1 dried orange (ju bing)
1L water

Instructions

Rinse the herbs.
Place herbs in 1L of water and bring to a boil.
Simmer for 45min and it's done 🙂

Notes

I checked with the TCM hall and the assistant informed me that this drink is suitable for tots suffering from cough and phlegm but in small amounts. 🙂

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Fun with syringes

Alicia was down with flu earlier in the year and she’s since been hooked on syringes – she even requests for water to be fed via syringe sometimes, long after she recovered from flu! Well, as long as water gets into that little mouth, that’s more important for me! 😛

Since she loves syringes, I thought well, why not just let her play with them and figure out how syringes work? It makes a great activity for her since she loves waterplay and syringes have just become the newest addition to the little basin!

All you need is a small tub of water, a couple of syringes and you’re good to go! 🙂

Learning to use a syringe can be really interesting for a tot – learning the mechanics of getting the water into the syringe and of course, their favourite part would be to ‘shoot’ the water out from it!

My little one posing for cam: