Tourette’s syndrome in children can be caused by a weak spleen and stomach, resulting in a deficiency of earth and an exuberance of wood, which will lead to the development of liver wind.
Tourette’s syndrome is a common neuropsychiatric disorder in children, and children often have involuntary motor twitching of parts of the body, which is classified as “liver wind” and “convulsions” by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that tic disorders are related to many factors, such as congenital endowment insufficiency (inborn constitution and poor functioning) or external evils, emotional and emotional disorders, dietary internal injuries, and disease attacks. The disease is located in the liver, often also involves the heart, spleen, lungs, kidneys and internal organs, and its pathogenesis is mainly for the wind-phlegm internal knot, liver hyperactive wind movement.
The main causes of the disease are wind-phlegm internalization, liver hyperactivity and wind-activity. When the spleen and stomach are damaged due to weakness or prolonged illness and vomiting and diarrhea, there is a deficiency of earth and exuberance of wood, and the clinical patients will have twitching and weakness, blinking and frowning, mental lethargy, yellowish complexion, lack of appetite, thinness, and loose stools.
If you feel unwell, please consult a doctor.