To sum up for you, children with spleen deficiency probably have so many performances:
Spleen and stomach are organs that digest food. If the spleen is deficient and the food cannot be transported, the child always doesn't want to eat and has a bad appetite. There are many reasons, for example, frequent food accumulation will lead to spleen deficiency, which will further aggravate food accumulation; In addition, frequent use of some drugs, such as antibiotics, can also lead to spleen and stomach injury and spleen deficiency. Generally speaking, it is antibiotics that kill the beneficial bacteria in the intestine, which leads to problems in the digestion and absorption of food. There are many such children now. Therefore, when children often have no appetite, don't want to eat food, and their stomachs swell, it is necessary to consider whether they have spleen deficiency.
Children with spleen deficiency can't transport and transport body fluids to the large intestine, which will lead to constipation, especially children with spleen yin deficiency, especially constipation. Because toxins accumulate in the body and cannot be repeatedly discharged and absorbed, such children often have many physical problems. Spleen deficiency can also cause diarrhea in children. This is because spleen deficiency cannot transport food, so some children pull it as soon as they eat it. Moreover, they often have digested food in their stools. This is because spleen deficiency can't decompose food. The ancients called this "incomplete grain". Such a child must have poor absorption function, so there will be malnutrition.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen belongs to the soil, the lung belongs to gold, and gold is born in the soil. In other words, only when the spleen and stomach function normally and can absorb nutrients can the lung's anti-evil ability be guaranteed. Therefore, parents often ask me, "Why does my child always catch a cold?" I will answer this question repeatedly: "Everyone must know more about Chinese medicine. Such children need to replenish their spleen so that they are healthy enough to stop catching colds often. " I guess I will continue to talk about this truth. I hope parents and friends must have a long-term vision, don't just ask for a cold prescription, but solve the fundamental problem.
For children, children will be shorter than their peers because of insufficient nutrition. I have seen many such children, some of whom are shorter than the shortest classmates in the class. Such children are often caused by insufficient nutrition, and parents seem to know this problem, so they try their best to cook all kinds of delicious food for their children and give them more food. This is because I don't understand the truth of Chinese medicine. The child's spleen and stomach are too weak to transport food. The more you eat, the weaker your ability to transport food. The results pile up together, leading to food accumulation, and then spleen deficiency. Therefore, at this time, we should first replenish the spleen and stomach to make it strong, and then eat food to absorb nutrition.
Chinese medicine believes that all kinds of wet swelling belong to the spleen. If children have spleen deficiency, the nutrients they eat can't be absorbed, and the waste can't be discharged, it is very easy to accumulate in the body and form phlegm and dampness. Therefore, such children will form a puffy state and look chubby, but when they exercise, they will be panting and sweating all over. Such children will also have problems in their growth and development. Moreover, children with heavy humidity are prone to skin problems such as eczema, which is also an important problem that plagues parents. In fact, fundamentally speaking, it is closely related to spleen deficiency.
Weak spleen and stomach, insufficient spleen soil, lung gold will naturally have problems, so that the lung's disease resistance will decline. Such children often start coughing as soon as the cold wind blows, and they are more likely to catch a cold. When a cold is over, a cough often lingers. Some children can even cough for two or three months. At this time, parents are often particularly anxious and try their best to prescribe all kinds of so-called "cough-relieving" drugs for their children. However, we should know that spleen deficiency is fundamental, so at this time, we should replenish the spleen and stomach and increase lung qi.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the liver belongs to wood, the spleen belongs to soil, and the liver governs the discharge, which is related to emotion. If there is something wrong with liver wood, it will affect spleen soil. On the contrary, when the spleen is weak, the liver wood is also prone to problems. This is called "weak soil and weak wood shaking" Now, we see that there are many problems in emotional relief caused by spleen deficiency, and even many children with TIC disorder have greatly improved their condition after conditioning their spleen and stomach.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that qi has the function of solid liquid, which is due to qi deficiency of spleen and lung. Qi deficiency can't consolidate body fluid, and you sweat when you move a little. Nowadays, many children are delivered by caesarean section. When they are born, an important moving part of the lungs is missing and they are not squeezed by the delivery port. Therefore, children who have caesarean section have a great feature, that is, they will sweat after a little exercise, which is lung qi deficiency. In addition, children with insufficient spleen and yin are prone to sweating when sleeping at night, which is called night sweats.
Chinese medicine says that "spleen is in body fluid", and children are prone to "salivation" and often drool when they have spleen deficiency. Especially when sleeping, it is easy to drool.
At the same time, if the child is sleeping, his eyes are always closed loosely and half-open, which is also a manifestation of spleen deficiency. Qian Yi, the founder of pediatrics of traditional Chinese medicine and a famous doctor in the Song Dynasty, said that this is called "sleeping to show the eyes", mainly because the spleen corresponds to the eyelids.
Chinese medicine believes that the spleen governs the flesh and limbs, so children with spleen deficiency will have thin limbs and weak bodies. Meanwhile, the color of the spleen is yellow. If the spleen is deficient, the earth color will spread all over the body surface. Therefore, children with severe spleen deficiency have sallow and dull faces. We Asians have yellow skin, but it is light red and yellow, so it should not be yellow. Therefore, once parents see such a child, they should consider whether to replenish the spleen.
In my opinion, children's massage method is very suitable for our parents to learn and operate, such as chiropractic. If it can be persisted, it will be particularly beneficial to the recovery of children's spleen and stomach. There are many methods, such as pushing spleen meridian, rubbing four horizontal stripes, rubbing doors, rubbing inner gossip, rubbing abdomen and so on. These methods have the effect of promoting digestion and strengthening the spleen. Because children's meridians are sensitive, as long as parents study and do it seriously, it is very beneficial to the recovery of their spleen and stomach.
In short, children are the future of our family and society. We hope that children can have a healthy spleen and stomach and a strong body. This requires all of us to work together and come up with various ways to protect children. I hope that with our efforts, children all over the world will become healthier and healthier!
-Excerpt from "Let the children not have a fever, cough or accumulate food"