Children's diseases can be summed up in two categories: external factors caused by the six evils; and internal factors caused by diet. The physiological characteristics of children are: yin is often deficient and yang is often surplus; spleen is often deficient and liver is often surplus. Therefore, children’s health care must be centered on the spleen and stomach. No matter what the disease is, the general principles of regulating and protecting the spleen and stomach are good and many problems will be solved.

1. Baby cold

1. Wind-cold cold: runny nose, sneezing, coughing, intolerance to cold, no sweating, heavy head and headache, and white tongue coating. Chinese patent medicines such as Fenghanmao Granules/Pueraria Gegen Tang Granules can be used, and the dosage is half of that for adults. You can also boil green onion and white ginger in water or take it in ginger and brown sugar water (peeling ginger is good for sweating);

2. Wind-heat cold: Not afraid of cold, afraid of heat, a little sweating, yellow nose and cough. There is yellow phlegm, sore throat or red and swollen tonsils, and yellow tongue coating. Chinese patent medicines can be Fengremao granules, Xiaoer Xiaqiao Qingre granules or Xiaoer Jiebiao granules. You can also boil some mulberry leaf and chrysanthemum water to take it;

3. Colds that come and go with cold and heat: the baby may be afraid of the cold for a while. If you are afraid of heat, have clear and sometimes yellow nasal discharge, and have poor appetite, you can take Xiaobupleurum granules.

4. Cold (cold on the outside and hot on the inside): The fever is not serious, low-grade, with symptoms of external cold (clear nose, cough), and symptoms of heat on the inside (low-grade fever, dry stool, tongue texture) reddish, etc.), you can use Fangfeng Tongsheng Pills, a Chinese patent medicine with both internal and external solutions.

5. Flu: For sore throat, fever, and body aches, you can use the Chinese patent medicine Lianhua Qingwen Capsules or antiviral oral liquid.

6. Wind-cold cold accompanied by food accumulation: Chinese patent medicine can be Wushicha granules or wind-cold cold granules plus Baohe pills.

2. Baby Cough

1. Wind-cold cough (lung-cold cough): Coughing occurs after catching a cold or after drinking cold drinks and cold foods. If there is white phlegm, Chinese patent medicines can be used to treat it. Fei Wan can also be boiled with high-quality dried tangerine peel and boiled in water, and there is also a steamed pear with Chinese prickly ash.

2. Food accumulation cough: You can choose Children’s Xiaoji Zhicough Oral Liquid.

3. Spleen deficiency and cough: Chinese patent medicines can be taken like Xiangsha Liujun Pills or boiled dried Chinese yam in water.

4. Cough caused by liver qi discomfort: If you consider the cough affected by emotions, you can choose Xiaobuihu granules, a Chinese patent medicine.

5. Dry lung cough: If you cough in autumn, there is no phlegm and the tongue coating is very thin, you can use Qiuli ointment or Chuanbei loquat ointment. Note that if the child coughs with a lot of phlegm, these two medicines must not be taken.

6. When the late symptoms of a cold are basically gone and only a cough is left, you can boil some Huaishan medicine for your child to drink. Huaiyam is the best medicinal and food-derived medicine to activate the function of the spleen and stomach. When the spleen and stomach are well, the lungs will be well as well. Cultivate soil to generate metal, and coughs will be cured quickly.

3. Baby fever

1. Food accumulation fever: eating too much, bad breath, dry stool, hot hands and feet, thick tongue coating, slippery and rapid pulse. You can use the method of digestion and stagnation, Baohe Pills, plus Diarrhea Re Sanhuang Tablets or Yiqing Capsules.

2. Pneumonia fever: Failure to treat a cold can easily lead to pneumonia. Mothers should pay attention to repeated coughing, thick yellow tongue coating, dry stool, yellow urine, and yellow phlegm. This is lung fever. For pneumonia caused by the disease, you can use the Chinese patent medicine Xiaoer Magan Granules or Xiaoer Fei Re Ke Chuan Granules. Chinese medicine can be modified with Maxing Shigan Decoction.

3. Tonsil inflammation and fever: Repeated tonsil inflammation develops into chronic tonsil hypertrophy. The tonsils are a very important immune organ. After removal, the body’s immunity and resistance against bacteria, viruses and other defenses will be weakened. , especially useful Chinese patent medicines for tonsil inflammation, you can choose Shuanghuanglian oral liquid, compound Houttuynia cordata mixture, Pediatric Yanbian granules, etc. There is also a single-flavor recipe of boiling Houttuynia cordata in water and drinking it.

4. Yin deficiency fever/growth fever/teething fever: red lips, frequent night sweats, hyperactivity, noisiness, thin tongue coating, not thick, and repeated low fever. If you need to nourish yin, you can use three black plum beans. Just drink.

5. Acute rash and fever in young children: It is more common in young children who have a fever for the first time, without obvious cold, cough and other symptoms, and suddenly have a high fever of 39-40. After the fever subsides, the mental state is still okay, and they can eat and sleep well. Check For swollen lymph nodes behind the neck, ears, and mandible without tenderness and occasional diarrhea, Sandou Xiangcai Root Drink can be used to assist in reducing fever. The effect is very good. Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid can also be used as an auxiliary treatment.

6. Fever due to internal heat and other causes: Boil tangerine peel, silkworm sand, bamboo root and rut in water to help reduce fever.

There is a common phenomenon in raising children nowadays: a family of three or five pampers their baby too much. Parents, parents, and grandparents may feed their children all kinds of food out of love for their children. It is easy for them to get sick if they eat too much. The Huangdi Neijing says: Doubling your diet will damage your spleen and stomach. Once the food you eat exceeds the capacity of the spleen and stomach, the spleen and stomach will be damaged. Once the spleen and stomach are injured, food accumulation will naturally occur.

1. Simple accumulation of food: it can be solved by digestion, and at the same time, pay attention to adjusting feeding (dietary structure and habits, etc.). You can choose Beijing Tong Ren Tang Dashanzha Pills, Jiao Sanxian (fried hawthorn, fried malt, fried Shenqu) plus Take Gallus gallus gallus powdered with powder (farmer chicken is best), or you can also use single-flavor Gallus gallus gallus powdered with powder.

2. Accumulated food can transform heat: It can eliminate food and clear away heat. At the same time, pay attention to adjusting feeding (dietary structure (eating less meat, mainly cereals and vegetables) and habits, etc.). You can choose Baohe Pills, a Chinese patent medicine, for children. Qixing Tea Granules (accompanied by night terrors, irritability, etc.).

3. Spleen deficiency, accumulated food and damaged body fluids: can strengthen the spleen and eliminate food, nourish yin and promote body fluids. You can choose the Chinese patent medicine Xiaoer Jianpi Granules.

5. Diarrhea in babies

1. Diarrhea caused by food damage: Babies will have diarrhea if they eat too much, and there is no need to stop the diarrhea. Just pull it out and it will be fine.

2. Diarrhea due to spleen deficiency: lack of energy, like to sleep on the stomach, often have unformed stools, loose stools, several times a day, you can choose Shenling Baizhu Powder. You can also use dried Chinese yam to boil water and drink it. Usually use millet yam porridge to treat it. Millet porridge and porridge oil can treat diarrhea and constipation.

3. The baby's gastrointestinal system adjusts to diarrhea: The baby's gastrointestinal system is relatively delicate and may cause diarrhea when eating food that has never been eaten before. Don't be nervous. This is an adaptation process. For example, after weaning and supplementary food, there will be diarrhea. Try not to feed your baby strange foods.

4. Damp-heat diarrhea: caused by damp-heat, you can use mung bean soup plus millet and yam porridge to treat it. Mung bean soup can clear away heat and dampness, and millet and yam porridge can strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea.

5. Diarrhea caused by cold: eating cold fruits, drinks, etc. causes diarrhea, abdominal pain and discomfort, watery stools, etc. You can take the Chinese patent medicine Huoxiang Zhengqi Pills. If you are not suitable for taking medicine, you can take this The pill is stuffed into the belly button. You can also use traditional Chinese medicine and external moxibustion at Shenque point (i.e. belly button) twice a day for 15-20 minutes each time.

6. Dysentery and diarrhea: Tenesmus, severe stomach pain, pain after diarrhea, and pus and blood in the stool. This is caused by severe dampness and heat. You can choose the Chinese patent medicine Jiawei Xianglian Pills.

6. My baby has low immunity and is prone to viral infections. What should I do?

1. Enterovirus infections such as hand, foot and mouth disease, herpetic angina, etc. are believed by traditional Chinese medicine to be caused by the heat and humidification of food accumulation in the gastrointestinal tract of children (the virus’s favorite environment), leading to viral infection, reproduction, etc. , you can choose Shuanghuanglian oral liquid, or you can drink three beans coriander root drink. Clinically, rotavirus is also caused by damp heat. The conditioning method is the same as above.

2. For measles in children, the measles must be diagnosed in the early stage. You can use Yinqiao Jiedu Pills. In the late stage of measles, if the high fever persists, you can use Niuhuang Qingxin Pills.

3. The incidence of mumps in children is also very high. Shuanghuanglian oral liquid/Yinhuang granules/Isatis root oral liquid can be used.

7. Low immunity and weak constitution are prone to repeated sweating and colds. (Do not use when you have an obvious cold and cough)

1. If you are prone to colds, have spontaneous sweating, are afraid of wind, have a pale complexion, and have a pale tongue with thin white coating, you can choose Chinese patent medicines: Yupingfeng Granules/Yupingfeng Oral Liquid

2. If weakness of the spleen and stomach causes indigestion, loss of appetite, excessive sweating and night sweats, growth retardation, low height, etc., you can take Longmu Zhuanggu Granules. (Do not use if there is obvious internal heat accumulation from food)

8. Medication for other miscellaneous diseases in children.

1. Babies often wet the bed. In traditional Chinese medicine, enuresis in children is called enuresis. It is usually caused by weak kidney qi. There are two medicines you can choose, one is Shuoquan Pills and the other is Chicken Neijin Powder.

2. If your baby has thrush, you can use Pediatric Daochi Pills.

3. If your baby has worms in his stomach, he can take Shijunzi Pills/Ta Xiaotang.

4. If the baby has acute purpura, the Chinese patent medicine Forsythia Baidu Pills can be used.

5. If the baby cries at night and is unwilling to sleep, it is a problem of excessive anger. Pediatric Daochi Pills can be used. If you have food accumulation, add Chicken Neijin Powder.

6. The baby has ADHD, is restless, active, and not afraid of waiting, as long as he is guided correctly. Qiju Dihuang Pills can be used as medication.

7. Babies develop slower than other children and often have heat in the palms, soles and palms (not caused by food accumulation). You can take Liuwei Dihuang Pills.

8. For neonatal jaundice (mostly caused by dampness and heat), the Chinese patent medicine Yinchen Zhihuang oral liquid can be used, or coptis licorice can be boiled in water.

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