Why children cry at night

Nocturnal crying is a disease in which a nursing infant under 1 year of age cries at night, with intermittent or continuous episodes, or even overnight, or cries regularly every night and as usual during the day. This disease is common in infants under 6 months of age. According to Chinese medicine, it is mostly caused by deficiency of cold in the spleen, heat accumulation in the heart meridian, sudden fright, and stagnation of milk and food. The infant’s spleen is often deficient, and at night the yin is strong; the spleen is the yin of the yin, so the cold invades and the qi is blocked, causing abdominal pain and crying at night; the infant’s heart often has excess, and the lactating mother eats fatty, sweet, pungent and spicy products with abandon, causing heat in the fetus, or the evil heat rides on the heart, causing irritability and crying at night; the infant is weak in energy and wisdom, and is suddenly frightened, which hurts the mind and makes the mind restless and crying in dreams; the milk and food stagnate in the middle jiao and the stomach is not in harmony, so the infant is restless and crying at night. Crying at night. Clinical manifestations] (1) Spleen cold: crying is low, sleep is bent, abdomen is warm and pressed, extremities are not warm, less food and loose stools, urine is clear and long, face is blue and white. Pale tongue with thin white coating and light red fingerprints. (2) Heart fever: crying is loud, crying is more violent when seeing a lamp, red face and lips when crying, irritability, warm body and sweating, constipated stool, short red urine. Red tongue with yellow coating and red and purple fingerprints. (3) Panic: sudden awakening and crying during night sleep, with a sharp cry, as if seeing a foreign body, clinging to the mother’s arms, with a blue-gray face. (4) Food accumulation: nighttime crying bouts, distention and fullness of the abdomen refusing to press, vomiting milk lumps, sour and smelly stools. Thick tongue coating and purple fingerprints. Massage therapy] (1) Treatment principle: nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen. If the spleen is cold, it is advisable to warm the middle and strengthen the spleen; if the heart is hot, it is advisable to clear the heart and lower the fire; if frightened, it is advisable to calm the mind; if food accumulation, it is advisable to eliminate food and guide stagnation. (2) Treatment steps ① pinch and knead Xiao Tian Xin, total tendons, five finger joints: first pinch Xiao Tian Xin, total tendons, five finger joints 3 to 5 times, then knead the points 50 to 100 times. ②Moisten the abdomen: use the palm side of the hand or the index, middle and ring finger side to stroke the abdomen of the child in a counterclockwise circular motion for 5 minutes. ③ press and rub the foot three li: use the end of the thumb to press and rub the foot three li point slightly below the outer knee of the child 50 to 100 times. ④If the spleen is cold a. Tonic spleen meridian: Apply pressure with the ribbed side of the thumb and push 300 times in the ribbed side of the thumb of the child. b. Rubbing the outer Lau Kung point: using the ribbed side of the index or middle finger, rub the middle finger and the middle of the metacarpal bone of the ring finger on the back of the child’s hand, opposite to the inner Lau Kung, 50 times. c. Push San Guan: Apply pressure with the thumb or the ribbed side of the index and middle fingers, and push from the transverse wrist line to the transverse elbow line 100 times along the radial side of the forearm. ⑤ If the heart is hot a. Clear the heart meridian: Using the ribbed side of the thumb, push from the fingertip straight to the knuckle 300 times on the ribbed side of the middle finger in children. b. Clear the liver meridian: apply pressure with the ribbed side of the thumb, and push the ribbed side of the index finger of the child from the fingertip straight to the knuckle 200 times. c. Clearing the small intestine: Apply pressure with the radial edge of the thumb, and push the ulnar edge of the little finger of the child from the root to the tip of the finger 200 times. d. Clear the Tianheshui: Using the thumb or the ribbed surface of the index and middle fingers, push from the transverse wrist line to the transverse elbow line 100 times along the middle of the forearm. e. Knead the inner labyrinth: Using the ribbed side of the thumb, knead the palm of the child 50 times in a clockwise direction. a. Clear the liver meridian: Using the ribbed side of the thumb, push the ribbed side of the child’s index finger from the tip of the finger straight to the knuckle 300 times. b. Clear the heart meridian: apply pressure with the ribbed side of the thumb, push the ribbed side of the middle finger of the child from the tip of the finger straight to the knuckle 200 times. c. Tonic spleen meridian: apply pressure with the ribbed side of the thumb, push the ribbed side of the thumb of the child 200 times. d. Transporting the internal bagua: Apply pressure with the ribbed side of the thumb and transport the bagua points around the palm of the child’s hand for 50 times. (7) If food accumulation a. Clearing the spleen and stomach: Using the ribbed side of the thumb, push the palm side of the child’s thumb from the tip of the finger to the root 200 times. b. Knead the Panmun: Using the ribbed side of the thumb, knead the palm of the child’s hand at the intersection of the large fish 50 times. c. Clearing the large intestine: using the radial side of the right thumb, push from the child’s tiger mouth to the fingertips 200 times. d. transport within the bagua: thumb ribbed surface force, in the child’s palm around the bagua points for 50 times. (3) course of treatment: massage treatment once a day, 1 week for a course of treatment. General treatment for 2 to 3 courses of treatment can be cured. (1) There are many causes of night crying, other diseases should be excluded. (2) the child is timid, avoid foreign sounds and foreign objects, careful to prevent panic. (3) proper care, diet, cold and temperature appropriate.