Soup for children to strengthen the spleen and stomach

Children’s tonics for strengthening the spleen and stomach include Gui Zhi Ren Shen Tang, Si Jun Zi Tang, and Ginseng and Atractylodes Macrocephalae, among which Ginseng and Atractylodes Macrocephalae can be used as soups and decocted in water with jujube, even though it is a bulk medicine. 1. Gui Zhi and Ginseng Soup: It has the function of warming yang and strengthening the spleen, relieving the surface and dispersing cold (removing the cold from the surface of the muscles), and is mainly used for treating the deficiency of cold in the spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach are weak and cold), and the surface symptoms of wind-cold in the external senses. Common symptoms include coldness (fear of cold), fever, headache, abdominal pain, loose stools (thin and unformed feces), lack of thirst, pale tongue with white slippery coating, and floating and weak pulse. 2. Sijunzi Tang: It can benefit the qi and strengthen the spleen (regulating the qi of the spleen and stomach), and is mainly used for treating qi deficiency of the spleen and stomach. Common symptoms include pale complexion, low voice, shortness of breath, loose stools, pale tongue with white coating and weak pulse. 3. Ginseng Ling and Atractylodis Macrocephalae: It can benefit qi and strengthen the spleen, exude dampness and stop diarrhea (removing dampness to treat diarrhea), and is mainly used for treating the syndrome of dampness and deficiency of the spleen. Common symptoms are dietary inactivity, chest and epigastric congestion, intestinal discharge, weakness of the limbs, emaciation, yellowish color (yellow and lusterless), pale tongue with white coating, and weak and slow pulse. It can also be used to treat deficiency of lung, spleen and qi, and cough with phlegm-dampness. For children, it should be noted that the dosage should be increased or decreased according to the age of the child. Specific tonics should be used under the guidance of a medical professional, and should not be used on one’s own.