Many parents ask me if it is good for their children to eat more meat, I always answer that meat and vegetables must be combined and more vegetables must be eaten, never let your child eat only meat and not vegetables. Otherwise, it will cause spleen and yin deficiency. If the spleen and stomach weakness, the impact on the human body is great. 1, children eat more meat and less vegetables, triggering spleen yin deficiency A few days ago I went out of town to give a public service lecture to a unit, a friend inside their company, brought their small children, let me see, said the child’s body is weak, I look at this child, under the eyes are appearing bags, this lower eye bags slightly red, I think this is an obvious sign of spleen yin deficiency, I asked the parents, this child is I asked the parents if this child was particularly fond of eating meat? The parents replied, “Yes, our child basically does not eat a lot of vegetables, but loves to eat meat!” After hearing this, I thought that this child’s case was typical, that is, the spleen and yin were insufficient. Now, I find that there are very many children like this. I think this is related to eating a lot of meat. Many parents ask me if it is good for their children to eat a lot of meat, and I always answer that meat and vegetables must be combined, and they must eat more vegetables, never let children eat only meat and not vegetables. Otherwise, it will cause the spleen Yin deficiency. Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is very important, is the human body after the foundation, we need the nutrients needed for life activities, all need to be transported and absorbed by the spleen. If the spleen and stomach are weak, the impact on the human body is great. 2, now many people do not know the spleen yin To supplement the spleen, we must distinguish between yin and yang. Because the spleen has yin and yang. Many people nowadays don’t know about spleen yin, which was actually advocated by Miao Xiyong, a famous doctor in the Ming Dynasty. I have told the story of Miao Xiyong in the column “Hundred Lectures”, he advocated the doctrine of spleen yin, which was later strongly advocated by the famous doctor Ye Tianshi in the Qing Dynasty, but not many people mention this part nowadays, and no one will use this method, it belongs to the content of Chinese medicine almost lost, and needs to be rediscovered. But I found that children are precisely the ones who have more spleen-yin deficiencies than we can imagine, and it is because everyone does not understand this content that they always get it wrong for some diseases. And the explanation of this mystery by TCM is again inside the TCM system, which Western medicine has no way to understand yet. 3, the food factor that triggers children’s spleen yin deficiency: hormones Why are there more children with spleen yin deficiency now? My opinion is: because there are too many things that hurt Yin nowadays. We eat a lot of meat with hormones because hormones have been added inside the feed that animals eat. This is my opinion, a conclusion I got after seeing many children, and need to further find some institution to do a double-blind controlled statistical study to get the final conclusion. Whether or not this effect would occur if only purely naturally raised animal meat was eaten, we cannot know because such meat is basically impossible to find. When hormones enter the body, because hormonal things are yang and hot in nature. When consumed for a long time, spleen yin is injured. 4, environmental factors that trigger the child’s spleen yin deficiency: spoiling I have met many children with spleen yin deficiency, are always eating meat, some children do not even eat a bite of vegetables, once parents let them eat vegetables, they cry and parents are helpless, and as a result, they can only compromise. Strictly speaking, such a situation is the problem of parents, discipline, do not know the advantages and disadvantages, on the surface is to obey the child, in fact, is to harm the child. I once saw one such child, the mother, aunt, grandmother, aunt five people accompanied, five people to take care of a child, see how spoiled, they told me that the child usually do not eat a bite of vegetables, only meat, hyperactivity, like a monkey jumping on the back of the sofa, no moment of peace. I can’t imagine what this child will be like in school. For such families, I will educate them, parents in general, grandparents, grandparents more education, I met a lot of children are grandparents, grandparents to spoil, I will tell them, children are like goldfish, he has no concept of health, as long as delicious, he will continue to eat, until hurt the spleen, how can we obey the child’s orders? If we love our children, we have to control them even more. If I offer my child several times the amount of what he likes to eat, that is to harm him. So, to make children listen to adults, every day is to eat so much content, adults to the arrangement, never children a frown, parents panic, immediately according to the child’s favorite, it was presented to the child is happy, later problems, parents regret can be too late. So I always say, many children’s diseases, is the love of parents out. 5, how do we determine that the child is spleen Yin deficiency? So, how can we tell if a child is deficient in spleen and yin? What kind of condition do children with Spleen-Yin deficiency usually have? The lips are bright red, because the spleen is in the mouth and its flower is in the lips. The lips of this child are often bright red, the tongue is also red when sticking out, and the tongue coating is very thin or simply absent. This child tends to have more obvious bags under the eyes and slightly red bags under the eyes. This is because according to Chinese medicine, the eyelids correspond to the spleen, and Chinese medicine calls the eyelids the “meat wheel”, so in general, patients with edema often have edema on their eyelids because of a spleen deficiency that cannot control water-dampness. In people with Spleen-Yin deficiency, my observation is that the bags under the eyes are not only large, but also often red, especially in children. Then at night they tend to sleep with night sweats and hot hands and feet. The stomach is easily distended after meals. Such children are especially mobile, especially prone to anger, bad temper, easy to cry, because the heart is irritable. Many children are hardly ever still. When you ask him to be quiet, you feel that he is like a fire, constantly burning and very prone to anger. In addition, children with Spleen Yin deficiency will have especially dry stools. Many parents tell me, “Strange, why is this child’s stool worse than the adult’s? They often block the toilet and have a dry mouth. Spleen Yin deficiency can cause many diseases in children, such as easy to catch a cold, and many children catch a cold frequently, even four times a month. Once they catch a cold, their throat is swollen and sore, which is due to heat in the upper jiao. There are also many diseases that have the shadow of spleen yin deficiency, even children with autism, many of them are deficient in spleen yin. 6, spleen yin deficiency treatment party then, spleen yin deficiency how to do? Here I recommend some small recipes for drinks to supplement spleen yin. This formula, just a thought, specific use, please parents let the nearby doctor specific analysis, to add or subtract the use of the good. Remember! Yam, lotus seed flesh, coix seeds, papaya, maitake, sage, raw earth, licorice, are basically all food therapy stuff. For a six-year-old child, for example, the portions of this formula are: nine grams of Chinese yam, nine grams of lotus seed meat, nine grams of coix seeds, six grams of papaya, six grams of maitong, six grams of sage, six grams of raw earth, and three grams of licorice. One piece of rock sugar. How to make: Put these medicines into a pot, add four cups of water, then open the pot on high heat and fry for half an hour on low heat, about two cups of juice left, strain the juice, put in a piece of rock sugar, and then let it warm. This is done, the soup is sweet, the child will like to drink, do not have to follow the method of taking drugs, can be taken at any time like a drink, generally take a patch a day can be. It can be taken continuously for a week, but five patches are enough to nourish the spleen and yin after a cold. Again, please let your local doctor make a specific analysis and add or subtract before you use. If there is no dampness you can not add Poria, but in the Ming Dynasty Miao Xiyong often added Poria to prevent having dampness mixed in. After a child has a cold and cough, we immediately give him a spleen tonic, which is to nourish spleen yang or spleen yin. If the spleen yin is deficient, drink this drink, and five patches will be enough to make up for it. Adults can also drink this drink. Adults with Yin deficiency, dry mouth, red tongue, dry eyes and hot palms are also good to drink this drink. I once told you that the child of Mr. Li of Angelica Chinese Medicine School would catch a cold every autumn and cough all winter long, and then he met me. He didn’t catch another cold this winter. The yam in this formula is for nourishing the spleen and yin. It is white in color, moistens the lungs, and tastes sweet to the spleen, and it also has some nourishing effects on the kidneys, but in general it is better for nourishing yin. The lotus seed meat is for the spleen, when boiling, you’d better mash it up. If you boil the whole thing, you won’t be able to boil it for more than 20 minutes, but after you mash it, the medicinal properties will be decocted. The heart of the lotus seeds has been removed from the meat. The meat of the lotus seeds is for the spleen, the heart of the lotus seeds is to drain the heart fire, so the spleen is generally used meat. The papaya is paired with licorice, which is called sour and sweet to transform yin in Chinese medicine, and it also has the effect of draining the liver, which Miao Xiyong believes should prevent the liver meridian from being affected at this time. Papaya also has a characteristic that it is able to remove dampness. And Mai Dong and Sha Shen are completely nourishing Yin and generating fluids. White peony and licorice together are also nourishing to Yin. Let’s summarize the symptoms of Spleen Yin deficiency. These are the symptoms of Yin deficiency, but also the symptoms of Spleen deficiency, that is, a distended stomach after eating, which bulges up and does not go down for half a day, and dry stools. This is spleen deficiency. After eating, the stomach is distended and blocked inside, because the spleen cannot transport and transform. For this small formula, parents can find a nearby TCM doctor to analyze the child’s physique and then make additions and subtractions for better results. But don’t let your child eat meat just because he or she drinks this drink. No, this drink only nourishes spleen yin a little bit, but if you continue to let your child eat meat every day and not eat green vegetables, this drink will not help much. Of course, if you can buy all-natural, hormone-free meat, you can eat it, but I suggest that you don’t eat too much, try to mix meat and vegetables, and increase the intake of green vegetables. Children are our future, we love children very much, but not because of love, delay the child’s body, we must ensure that the child meat and vegetables with, must not let the child eat meat all day, do not eat vegetables, that will be a parental failure.