Chinese herbal medicines for treating food retention include malt, lycopodium and henneijin, which should be taken according to the doctor’s prescription. 1. Malt: It has the effects of promoting the flow of qi to eliminate food, invigorating the spleen and opening the stomach, restoring breast milk and eliminating flatulence (reducing or stopping the secretion of breast milk to eliminate the effect of swelling). It has a therapeutic effect on patients with food retention. Malt can be used to treat dyspepsia, spleen deficiency, less food, epigastric distension, breast distension, breast milk accumulation, liver and stomach qi pain, liver depression, dystocia (pain in the area of the ribs) and so on. 2. Lycopodium: It has the effects of eliminating food and bloating, lowering qi and resolving phlegm. It can also be used in patients with food accumulation. Clinically, it can be used to treat distension and pain in the stomach and abdomen, dietary stagnation, stagnant diarrhea, constipation, phlegm congestion and coughing, and gas retention and fullness. 3. Chicken Neijin: It has the effects of strengthening the stomach and eliminating food, astringing semen and stopping spermatorrhea (consolidating semen, preventing and controlling spermatorrhea), and clearing the lymphatic flow and resolving stones. It is used in the treatment of dietary stagnation, pediatric chancre (a kind of chronic disease of children, manifesting as emaciation, abnormal diet, abdominal distension, thinning and yellowing of hair, etc.), vomiting, diarrhea and dysentery, and stonelike gonorrhea (discharging gravel during urination, or sudden interruption of urination, pain in the urethra, and unbearable pain in the lumbar and abdominal regions), and it can be also used in patients with accumulation of food. Note that adverse reactions to the above drugs have not been clarified, and drug allergy is prohibited. There are many other traditional Chinese medicines for the treatment of food accumulation, and it should be noted that the above traditional Chinese medicines need to be used reasonably after the Chinese medicine practitioner’s diagnosis, and should not be taken on their own, so as to avoid delaying the condition.