Q: My children often cough, eat poorly, love to eat snacks, do not eat meat and vegetables, please ask teachers how to enhance appetite and immunity, help yo! A: I often tell parents: Chinese medicine says “light taste nourishes people”, what is nourished? Nourish is the spleen and stomach, light taste why nourish the spleen and stomach? Because light taste allows the spleen and stomach to rest and recuperate. So what is light taste? It is relative to the stimulating taste of various snacks and cooking. In order to get children to eat more, parents cook food in different ways, but neglect to let children’s stomach and intestines accept the original taste of food (less seasoning or no seasoning taste), such as drinking hemlock to quench thirst, drying up and fishing, and putting the cart before the horse ~~~~. Then how can we reawaken the appetite of the spleen and stomach? Or with a light diet – that is, a bland diet (light porridge, vegetables, a little stewed meat, fish, etc.), at first the child may not want to eat these foods, it does not matter, step by step, he tasted a bite away, crying for this and that to eat, then parents should be ruthless, regardless of him, on these things love to eat or not, he may still not eat, do not eat past the meal time to collect away, no other snacks to eat. This meal he does not eat, the next meal he will know that you can eat some, not to be hungry. This repeatedly a few days down, his spleen and stomach will slowly recover, and even he will take the initiative to eat something, then you do not rejoice too early, or gradually, slightly to increase the diet, not too full, and then hurt the stomach! And then the next diet is much easier, a week to a special dish, to ensure that he wants to eat again this week when next week a meal. I have written so much, one is to let parents and physicians know that the spleen and stomach due to a variety of fresh taste stimulation and injury, qi and yin deficiency, or don’t have a depression of heat in the house, alone hiding treachery, pediatric spleen and stomach disease is mostly the original deficiency and standard real, feeding and medication is equally important. Secondly, special attention should be paid to the methods and strategies, children are delicate and through the nurturing, liver, spleen deficiency, especially the need for gradual progress, otherwise the previous work is lost, must not be ignored! I sometimes use princely ginseng, atractylodes, poria, strengthening the spleen at the same time, less adjuvant Huang Lian or gentian grass and other bitter medicine thick stomach to dispel fire, so that the sweet and bitter together, Chai Hu to promote digestion of the three jiao is often the choice of drugs, half summer diarrhea heart soup for gangrene evidence, is not also indigestion? The false distension treated by Han Xia Hou Pu Gan Cao Ginseng Tang is also a manifestation of the decline in gastrointestinal function, and the slight addition of Jiao San Xian, Curcuma longa and Betel nut is only to open up the stomach and intestines and act on behalf of the stomach. We should think about it and get something out of it.