Some parents see their children’s tongues are lumpy, with several round or oval red areas surrounded by a circle of white raised edges, zigzagging and winding, like a map. I don’t know what’s wrong with the child, so I’m looking for medicine everywhere. In fact, this phenomenon on the child’s tongue, medically known as the “map tongue”. Why would a child have a “map tongue”? Map tongue is a relatively common symptom in children aged 3 to 5 years old, the tongue itself is not painful, but some children will have a loss of appetite, thin stools or constipation, night sweats, easy to catch a cold, etc.. The cause of map tongue may be related to the lack of vitamins and trace elements in the body. Due to improper feeding methods, these children grow up to be partial and picky eaters, preferring fried and smoked meat and drinks, but not interested in rice and noodles, especially vegetables. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day, and changes in the tongue moss is a “barometer” that reflects the strength and weakness of the stomach. Children’s spleen and stomach is delicate, such as diet is not regulated, it is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, the spleen is not healthy, the stomach is not and down, so it will send signals from the tongue moss. How to treat “map tongue”? For children with a map tongue, the main thing is to establish a healthy lifestyle for the child and to regulate the diet. Depending on the situation, herbal treatment can be given to children with obvious symptoms. If it is accompanied by unthinking eating and drinking, a lean body, dry stools and excessive sweating during sleep, the child belongs to the spleen and stomach Yin deficiency. You can let your child eat some millet and mung bean porridge, oatmeal and lily porridge, corn and lotus root porridge, etc., and change them every day. At the same time, let your child eat milk, eggs, lean meat, fish, soy products and fresh vegetables to meet the body’s needs for protein, various vitamins and trace elements. You should also give your child fruits according to the season, such as apples, peaches, grapes, sugar cane, bananas, watermelon, tomatoes, etc., which can replenish vitamins and nourish stomach yin. But be careful not to eat fried and smoked foods, not to drink drinks containing too much sugar, and avoid spicy and warm foods such as chili, mustard, pepper, dry ginger, mutton, dog meat and fatty meat to avoid damaging the child’s spleen and stomach. If the child has a loss of appetite, a thin body, a pale or yellowish complexion, frequent drooling, weakness and laziness, sweating at the slightest activity, sleepy eyes, loose stools, formed stools and more frequent stools, the child is suffering from a deficiency of spleen and stomach energy. In the diet should give children eat japonica rice yam porridge, barley japonica rice red dates porridge, glutinous rice lentil porridge, lotus seeds red dates glutinous rice porridge. You can also eat beef and radish casserole, dog meat and carrot casserole. Usually you can eat some seasonal fruits and dark green, red and yellow dark-colored vegetables in moderation. Do not eat spicy, hard-to-digest fried and greasy food, cold drinks or frozen food to avoid damage to the child’s spleen and stomach.