Can children eat Hawthorn Chicken Nei Jin?

Hawthorn and Chicken Nei Jin are antinausea medicines in traditional Chinese medicine, which can be taken by children. However, not all children are suitable to take these two medicines and they should be used under the guidance of professional doctors. Hawthorn is sour and sweet in taste, slightly warm in nature, and belongs to the spleen, stomach and liver meridians. It is effective in strengthening the stomach and eliminating food stagnation, promoting circulation of Qi and dispersing blood stasis, resolving turbidity and lowering fat (cleansing the body of impurities and reducing excess body fat). It is used for dietary stagnation, diarrhea and dysentery, abdominal pain, and hernia pain. Adverse effects of the drug are not clear. Take with caution for pregnant women, hyperacidity and peptic ulcers. Avoid iron and aluminum utensils. Chicken Nei Jin is sweet in taste and neutral in nature, and belongs to the spleen, stomach, small intestine and bladder meridians. It is effective in strengthening the stomach and eliminating food stagnation, astringing semen and stopping spermatorrhea (consolidating semen, preventing and controlling spermatorrhea), and clearing lymph and resolving stones. It is used in treating dietary stagnation, spermatorrhea, lithiasis (discharge of sand and stones during urination, or sudden interruption of urination, pain in the urethra, and intolerable pain in the waist and abdomen), astringent pain, etc. The adverse effects of this drug are not known. Adverse effects of the drug are not clear. It should be used with caution in cases of spleen deficiency without accumulation and stagnation. It can be seen that the above two drugs have no obvious toxic side effects and are not prohibited drugs for children, so children can take them. However, not all children are suitable for the use of these two drugs, should be combined with the patient’s specific condition, in the professional Chinese medicine practitioner after the identification of reasonable use, not blindly self-medication, in order to avoid adverse reactions.