For children with food retention, Chinese herbal soup with the effect of strengthening the spleen and eliminating stagnation (strengthening the function of the spleen and stomach to promote food digestion) can be used under the guidance of Chinese medicine practitioners to identify the cause of food retention. According to the cause of a child’s food retention, TCM practitioners can categorize it into two main types: deficiency and solid. The treatment of solid symptoms is to eliminate food stagnation (promote food digestion), while the treatment of deficiency symptoms is to strengthen the spleen and eliminate food stagnation. 1. Solid syndrome is the most common, often manifested as loss of appetite or refusal to eat, abdominal distension, belching (hiccups), sour and putrid breath, heavy breath, farting (farting) foul smell, dry stools or stools sour and smelly, restlessness in the night, and red tongue with greasy coating. Baoho Pill or Hovenia Medullaris Pill is often used to add and subtract. 2. Deficiency syndrome is often manifested by a long course of the disease, inappetence of the child, emaciation, yellowish color of the face, fatigue (mental exhaustion, physical weakness), loose stools, and distension of the epigastrium (abdomen), like to be pressed. The spleen-enhancing pill is often used to add or subtract. For children with food accumulation, it is recommended to use medicines under the guidance of professional doctors to identify the symptoms.