Spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood. The nutrition needed for children's growth and development needs spleen and stomach metaplasia. However, infants and young children have delicate viscera, insufficient qi, and often insufficient spleen, and are easily injured by diet and exogenous pathogens.
On the other hand, children grow rapidly, are pure yang and need more nutrition. Therefore, children's spleen and stomach are transported to Shui Gu, and the load of absorbing fine substances is relatively large. The normal operation of the spleen and stomach is the basic guarantee for the healthy growth of children.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there are two aspects of spleen and stomach weakness, one is spleen deficiency and the other is stomach deficiency. Generally, we talk about spleen and stomach weakness together, because the two functions are connected. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, and the nutrition of the day after tomorrow comes from the transportation and transformation of the spleen. If the spleen and stomach are weak, the nutritional status of the whole body will be poor, which will lead to many common problems, such as frequent colds, coughs, anorexia, sweating, dry stools or diarrhea.
Understanding of spleen and stomach in traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen governs transport and transformation, and the stomach governs absorption and transformation. It means that the stomach receives food and does primary processing, the spleen extracts subtle substances as nutrients and transports them to all parts of the body, and the dregs are excreted through the gastrointestinal tract. Children's spleen and stomach weakness is mostly caused by long-term irregular diet, overeating cold food, taking antibiotics for a long time or some diseases (such as chronic pneumonia).
Weak spleen and stomach will lead to poor nutritional status of the whole body, which will lead to many common problems, such as frequent colds, coughs, anorexia, sweating, dry stools or diarrhea.
Children with weak spleen and stomach often have yellow complexion or uneven facial pigmentation (spots), thin hair, thin body, brittle nails with white spots, and pain around the navel, sometimes light and sometimes heavy.
In addition to the above symptoms, children with weak spleen and stomach and cold inside have frequent defecation, large amount of defecation and defecation after meals. Children with weak spleen and stomach and internal heat often have poor appetite and dry stools (2 ~ 3 days of stools 1).
Prolonged anorexia is related to weakness of spleen and stomach.
Although anorexia is a manifestation of weakness of the spleen and stomach, it is caused by many reasons. Some children don't like eating in the short term, which may be indigestion or indigestion. They will definitely eat less during a cold, which is also the self-protection of the human body. Long-term dietary problems are generally related to deficiency and cold of the spleen and stomach, but this deficiency and cold of the spleen and stomach should also be treated dialectically. There are several syndromes of anorexia in traditional Chinese medicine. To look at the problem dialectically, some may be spleen and stomach qi deficiency, some may be liver depression and spleen deficiency, and some may be yin deficiency, which needs professional doctors to distinguish.
Children can't eat for a long time is the performance of "spleen and stomach weakness".
Some children are particularly able to eat, but parents report that their children pull whatever they eat, but they don't absorb it. They are very thin, and they can eat very much. Chinese medicine believes that this is a kind of "spleen deficiency and stomach strengthening". In this case, we should pay attention to eating some foods that strengthen the spleen, such as coix seed and poria cocos. At the same time, be careful not to let children eat too much, and never overeat.
"Night sweats" when children sleep is a manifestation of yin deficiency.
Every child will sweat a little after 20 to 40 minutes of sleep, which is normal and will disappear after a while. But some children can see sweat on their heads or wet a pillow towel after lying down, which is not normal. Abnormal sweating during sleep belongs to the "night sweat" of traditional Chinese medicine, which is mostly related to yin deficiency. Sweating due to spleen deficiency belongs to spontaneous sweating, and children sweat more when they are active, which belongs to spleen and stomach weakness. Sweating during sleep is mostly related to yin deficiency.
The root of chronic cough is weakness of spleen and stomach.
Spleen and stomach are weak, vital qi is insufficient, and cough is difficult to heal. Cough should be treated on the basis of regulating the spleen and stomach, and can also be combined with chiropractic therapy.
Children with "spleen and stomach weakness" should be nursed back to health as soon as possible.
Children are in the process of growth and development. Some children have weak spleen and stomach when they are young, but they will get better when they grow up. In addition, congenital weakness of the spleen and stomach does exist. Due to the mother's illness, the fetus is stunted in the mother. Some children are born with weak spleen and stomach. Such children should adapt as soon as possible.
The key to regulating the spleen and stomach is reasonable feeding.
The key problem of spleen and stomach weakness is to eat reasonably and pay attention to good and reasonable food hygiene and habits. Some children don't like eating, so parents should find out the reason, which may be caused by improper feeding. Some parents run after their children at home with rice bowls all day, which is a very bad way of feeding. Pay attention to the overall nutritional collocation, including paying attention to good living habits.
Lotus seed yam porridge: 30 grams of lotus seeds, 80 grams of yam and 50 grams of japonica rice. Lotus seeds go to the heart and cook porridge with yam, japonica rice and water. This prescription is suitable for children with spleen and stomach weakness due to emaciation and loss of appetite.
Jujube millet porridge: 10 jujube, 30 grams of millet. After washing the millet, stir-fry it in a pot until it is slightly yellow, then add a proper amount of red dates and water, boil it with strong fire, and then cook it into porridge with low fire.
Ophiopogon japonicus and Adenophora japonicus bean porridge: Adenophora japonicus and Ophiopogon japonicus each 10g, lentils 15g, and japonica rice 50g. Boil Radix Adenophorae and Radix Ophiopogonis in water for 20 minutes to get juice, and use this juice to cook porridge with japonica rice and lentils. This prescription is suitable for children with weakness of spleen and stomach, fever of hands and feet and dry stool.
"DuDu Pig" Herbal Zhuanger Drink: Radix Pseudostellariae for invigorating qi and strengthening spleen, unique skill for clearing heat and promoting digestion, chicken's gizzard-membrane for eliminating stagnation and strengthening spleen, and appetizing hawthorn. Drink one bottle at a time, three times a day, strengthen the spleen and qi, strengthen the body, improve a series of conditions caused by spleen and stomach weakness, and help children grow up. Highlight "DuDu Pig" Herbal Zhuanger Drink tastes mellow and is easy for children to accept. In addition, the charming and lovely orange pig is full of "watching".
Chiropractic is good for children's health care.
Chiropractic is a physical therapy with no side effects and simple operation. It can be implemented at home and is a very good child health care measure.
Specific practice: Hold the middle finger, ring finger and little finger in both hands into an empty fist shape, with the index finger half bent and the thumb straight, then hold the child's back skin for about 0.5 ~ 1 cm and push it from bottom to top. Repeat this way, 1 ~ 2 times a day.