Loss of appetite is a reduced desire to eat, i.e. not wanting to eat.
There are more reasons for loss of appetite such as excessive mental anxiety, temper tantrums, injury to the liver, liver qi crossing the stomach and affecting the digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach; such as hot summer days, three volt days, the evil of summer heat and dampness trapping the spleen and yang can also cause loss of appetite; there are also disease causes such as digestive system diseases, infections causing inflammation leading to fever, chemotherapy patients or taking certain medications can cause loss of appetite.