Poor appetite, in layman’s terms, means not eating well, loss of appetite, and lack of appetite. In Chinese medicine, it is classified as a disease of the spleen and stomach and is caused by a variety of reasons. Such as injury caused by food, often manifested as belching sour gas; and then caused by dampness, often manifested as the stomach and epigastric distension, white and greasy tongue coating. The causes of poor appetite are the following: 1, feeling the evil of the time The spleen and stomach are the essence of the day, and are responsible for the heavy task of receiving, maturation, transportation, digestion and absorption. If you feel the wind-cold evil, the wind-cold evil guest stomach, so that the stomach’s absorption function is damaged; or feel the heat of the time evil, heat evil dry stomach, gastric damage, can also make the stomach’s digestion and absorption dysfunction; especially feel the damp evil, wet sticky, most likely to harm the human spleen and stomach digestion and absorption function, at the same time, the spleen is wet and evil wet, wet can be depressed spleen Yang, so that the spleen transport damage, stomach gas is not open, then do not think about eating. 2, the injury caused by diet normal human diet in a disciplined manner, regular living, not delusional labor, it can be the form and God. If life and living against the physiology, or over-eating sweet, fatty, thick and greasy, to wine for pulp, to delusion as a regular, alcohol, sweet and fatty excess, felling injury to the spleen and stomach, so that gastric injury, the stomach gas can not be the main decomposition, the ability to consume, then do not think about eating. 3, the spleen and stomach weakness spleen and stomach for the day after the original, in the axis of transport, Chen Xiuyuan said: “central health, four sides such as”, is to say that the spleen and stomach function is robust. If the stomach is damaged, it will smell bad and lead to poor appetite. If the stomach is strong, it can eat without injury, overtime and not hungry, the spleen and stomach are strong, it can eat and fat, the spleen and stomach are weak, it can not eat and thin. 4, kidney Yang deficiency failure kidney for the innate essence, the root of human life, the source of all the power of the human body, especially the life of the fire, can transform all things, fire can produce earth, the spleen and stomach play a vital role in the digestion and decomposition of food, kidney Yang deficiency, the life of the fire can not biochemical spleen earth, can lead to weak spleen and stomach function, and can not eat.