Children with bad spleen and stomach do not like to eat and Chinese medicine literature contained in the “do not think about food”, “do not want to eat”, “do not hunger and do not eat”, “bad food” and other evidence of disease performance is similar. “The key to the disease mechanism is that the spleen and stomach are unhealthy, and there is a loss of harmony between them. Symptoms can be relieved through general treatment, medication, and massage therapy.
1. General treatment: Parents should help children develop good eating habits, pay attention to dietary modification, so that they are not picky about what they eat, not forced to eat, and the diet should be regular and appropriate amount. In addition, to do meat and vegetables, as little as possible to eat fat, sweet, thick taste, cold and other indigestible food, as much as possible to eat vegetables and coarse grains.
2. Medications: If it is a case of Qi deficiency of the spleen and stomach, it can be treated with Isokong San; if it is a case of Yin deficiency of the spleen and stomach, it can be treated with Nourishing Stomach and Increasing Fluid (increasing the body’s water and fluid) Soup; if it is a case of Spleen Loss of Healthy Transportation (dysfunction of the spleen’s transporting and transforming functions), it can be treated with Buwajin Zhengqi San. Specific medication should follow the doctor’s instructions.
3. Tui na: If it is a case of qi deficiency of the spleen and stomach, the symptoms can be relieved by tonifying the spleen and earth, transporting the internal eight trigrams, rubbing the foot and three li, belly rubbing and chiropractic; if it is a case of yin deficiency of the spleen and stomach, the symptoms can be relieved by rubbing the panmen, tonifying the stomach meridian, transporting the eight trigrams (a kind of massage technique carried out in the hands of the pediatrician), breaking up the yin and yang, rubbing the two horses and rubbing the middle epigastric region.
Pediatric Tuina should be performed by a medical professional and should not be done on one’s own to avoid damage to the body.
In general, the above methods are good for regulating the spleen and stomach. However, if the child’s spleen and stomach are not good, and the child does not like to eat for a long time, parents should take the child to the doctor for treatment in a timely manner, and do not blindly use medication.