”If you want your children to be safe at all times, you always need to be hungry and cold; if everyone follows this method, all illnesses will not be related to each other.” How can we make children less sick? I am afraid this is a question that many parents are very concerned about. I was also deeply perplexed by it. There are many causes of illness in children, but the most important ones are two: external wind and cold (commonly known as cold) and improper diet (including unclean diet and poor diet). I am only talking about the triggers here, not the causes, because Chinese medicine also pays attention to internal causes, as the so-called “righteousness within, evil can not dry”. Normally, the human organism and the external nature (including air, sunlight, food) are in harmony, maintaining a harmonious and balanced relationship, through the air, etc., to breathe in clear air and exhale turbid air, through the diet to meet the normal metabolism of people. However, if this balanced and harmonious relationship is disrupted, the human organism will become ill. Let’s analyze the reasons for this: there are only two areas of contact between children and the outside world, either the respiratory tract (the lungs are in contact with the skin, so the skin should belong to this) or the digestive tract. If the wind and cold invade from the nose or mouth or skin, respiratory diseases will easily occur, such as fever, cough, or even pneumonia; unclean diet will cause diarrhea, eating too much food causing food accumulation, stagnation will also cause diarrhea, abdominal pain; in addition, the two aspects will affect each other, we all know the gastrointestinal flu, is a cold, nasal congestion and sore throat, accompanied by diarrhea or vomiting symptoms, and children eat cold drinks In addition, many children who have accumulated food and stomach heat (also known as internal heat, right?) are also prone to recurrent tonsillitis. The above is a brief list of a few common phenomena, indicating the two most common conditions that cause pediatric morbidity, this time only from the highest incidence of respiratory and digestive diseases in children to discuss. Of course, colds can also cause myocarditis, nephritis and other systemic diseases that induce and aggravate tics, so just ignore them for now. So how can we make children less sick? It is often necessary to have one point of hunger and cold! Children are growing and need adequate nutrition, especially high-quality protein to meet their needs, so how can you starve a child? Children wear so many clothes and are still afraid of catching a cold, but also let a minute of cold, certainly not! I am not the one who said this, but the famous pediatrician Zeng Shirong of Yuan Dynasty said it. The reason why this phrase has been regarded as the golden rule of scientific child-rearing by pediatricians for generations is that it is not only feasible but also practical and effective, and is well versed in the idea of treating the untreated, which is that the sages do not treat the already diseased and treat the untreated, and do not treat the already disordered and treat the untreated. The idea of “one point of hunger” is not to give too much high-energy nutrients to children, but just to meet their growth needs and fully mobilize their own digestive potential, so that “the spleen will be free from evil in all seasons”, otherwise food accumulation will occur, or even noma (malnutrition). The “one point cold” is to fully exercise children’s ability to resist the cold, not a slight change in the weather on the thick clothes heavy coverlet, but more likely to sweat body more weak, often fever, cough, etc.. “Always suffer a point of hunger and cold” is to prompt parents to exercise more, mobilize, play children’s own resistance to disease, not to make it into a greenhouse flowers. If parents pay attention to the above two points, I believe that the number of times children get sick will be greatly reduced. If it does not work, you have to go to the hospital to adjust the child’s sub-healthy physique first. I am mostly divided into two cases clinically: 1, for simple physical deficiency of children, after four diagnostic view, look at the face of the s white or green and yellow less, the shape of the body is less abundant, smell the speech is light and lazy, ask the fatigue, cut the pulse to weak and delicate, and repeated colds, accompanied by plain easy sweating, dull food, or even loose stools, etc., can be treated from the spleen and stomach qi deficiency, after strengthening the spleen to transport the spleen to make the latter biochemical source, and can The spleen is the mother of the lungs, which is the content of the Five Elements theory), and the lungs are benefited to strengthen the guard, thus greatly reducing the number of recurrent respiratory infections (the key to the onset of the flu is whether your guard is strong or not) 2, the other, I mostly treat from food accumulation, of course, also through the four diagnoses to observe the typical symptoms of sourness in the mouth, abdominal distension and pain, heat in the palms of the hands and feet, etc. Some children’s symptoms are anorexia and lack of appetite, while some children are very good eaters. Some parents may speak in a skeptical tone: children have not eaten much recently, even less than usual. They do not know that children’s spleen is often insufficient and their digestive and absorption functions are relatively weak compared to those of adults. How can you tell if there is food accumulation? I usually look at the tongue and pulse of the child to see whether the tongue is greasy or not, whether the pulse is slippery or not, and a combination of other aspects to judge. You can give the medicine of eliminating food and stomach, and it will solve the problem soon. 3, from the above two points can be seen, conditioning, correction of children’s sub-health status, mainly from the conditioning of the spleen and stomach to start, conditioning of the spleen and stomach, the ancients called the king’s way in medicine! Famous pediatricians of all generations, such as Qian B, Wan Quan, etc., all pay attention to the spleen and stomach. Having said that, how to make babies less sick, it is only about children usually: the lighter to a point of hunger and cold, fully mobilize, exercise their ability to resist disease, and avoid the two major causes of morbidity; the heavier to the hospital to adjust the baby’s subhealth status. I hope it will be helpful to everyone.