What exactly is “milk consumption”? Is it caused by too much milk? And what is the problem with picking up milk consumption? In fact, the term “milk consumption” is just a vernacular in the Shanghai area, and there is no such thing as milk consumption in medicine, not in Chinese medicine, and not in Western medicine. What exactly is this disease? The actual fact is that the milk consumption is a Chinese medical condition called “noma”. In fact, the milk consumption is not related to eating milk. It is only due to the fact that people used to live in poverty, after the children were weaned, the complementary food can not keep up (no suitable complementary food, or after weaning children anorexia, eat badly), easily lead to malnutrition in children, which is related to the “milk”, so called milk consumption. So here we can see the two characteristics of consumption, one is the long-term course of the disease, eating poorly; the second is malnutrition. The diagnosis of consumption should exclude severe malnutrition caused by serious diseases of other systems. At present, due to the improvement of the standard of living, milk consumption is basically absent and is replaced by anorexia nervosa. True consumption, due to severe malnutrition, affects the physical development of the child and even the intellectual development of the child. The good thing is that nowadays there is basically no milk consumption, so don’t worry too much. As milk consumption is only a dialect of the Shanghai area, so “picking milk consumption” is only a Shanghai regional term. In fact, the Chinese medicine is called needle pricking four seam points, which is the use of needle tools to puncture the four seam points. In the past, the use of the three-pronged needle. Because the three-pronged needle is too expensive, and now not many manufacturers, and in order to avoid cross-infection, to do a needle per person, so now are using disposable blood collection needle. The milk consumption is just an acupuncture point for the four sutures, and there is no fundamental difference between the general playing acupuncture. Another point is that some people think that if the milk consumption is picked out as “water”, then it is milk consumption, and if it is picked out as “blood”, then it is not milk consumption. This statement is incorrect. It can be said that everyone should be able to pick out water, whether you have milk consumption or not. Why? This water is actually nothing more than subcutaneous tissue fluid. Everyone has it under their skin, so they should be able to pick it out. But why is it that some people are water and some people are blood? As long as you squeeze a little harder, it will bleed. It’s that simple, there’s nothing magical about it. So why pick the hand when there is no more milk consumption? Because picking the hand, or to be more precise, needling the four suture points is a very good way to improve gastrointestinal function and increase appetite, which is perfect for children with anorexia. So picking the hand is not exclusive to “milk consumption”, but also to anorexia nervosa.