When autumn comes, children with spleen and stomach deficiency are more prone to indigestion. Below, Chinese medicine recommends several hawthorn food therapies for children's indigestion for parents' reference.

From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, children's spleen is often deficient, and diarrhea is more likely to occur when the weather changes. It is suggested that parents can consciously feed their children with foods that strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach in their daily diet, such as using yam, hawthorn and barley to make soup or porridge. For children with dyspepsia, light liquid or semi-liquid food should be given priority to in diet, and children should be encouraged to drink more salted rice soup to keep enough body fluids to prevent dehydration.

"Children's spleen is often insufficient. If the evil of wind-cold is directly in the spleen and stomach, or if you feel the evil of dampness and turbidity because you don't pay attention to food hygiene, diarrhea will occur." Xiao Damin said that from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the onset of children is closely related to their spleen and stomach functions. In autumn and winter, you can properly cook some soup or porridge that regulates the spleen and stomach, such as hawthorn, malt, millet sprout, lentil, yam and duck kidney, or after consulting a Chinese medicine doctor, add dried tangerine peel, Radix Astragali, Radix Codonopsis or Ophiopogon japonicus and Coicis Semen according to whether the child is cold or hot, so as to enhance the spleen and stomach function of children, improve immunity and prevent diarrhea. The following is a list of several dietary therapies for children with dyspepsia for reference.

Four Hawthorn Diet Therapy for Children's Dyspepsia

1, yam lotus seed porridge

Hawthorn (about 50 grams) and lotus seeds (20~30 grams) make porridge for the baby. Lotus seeds and porridge should be cooked badly enough to eat together. For children under 1 year old, yam and lotus seeds should be crushed as much as possible. Dry can be ground into powder, and then mixed with rice soup to feed. This porridge can warm the stomach and strengthen the spleen, which is most suitable for children with insufficient spleen yang.

2. Hawthorn porridge

Crataegus pinnatifida (about 20g) and rice (30g) are boiled with porridge, and three or two slices of thin ginger can be added during the cooking. Add some sugar after the porridge is finished.

3, hawthorn chicken gizzard-membrane

3 grams of Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli, 3 grams of Fructus Crataegi, Fructus Hordei Germinatus, Massa Medicata Fermentata and Glycyrrhrizae Radix. Decoct with water, 3g each time, 3 times a day. Indications for children's dyspepsia.

4, Atractylodes macrocephala burnt hawthorn

60g of Atractylodes macrocephala, 30g of Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli and 30g of charred hawthorn are ground into fine powder, and taken1.5g each time, three times a day, and served with boiled water. Indications for children's dyspepsia.

The recommended food therapy is best to consult a doctor and take it two or three times a day for 3~5 days according to the spleen and stomach condition of children.

Little secret recipe for treating children's dyspepsia: soak 45g of tea leaves and 9g of dried tangerine peel in a bowl of water for one day, and fry until half a bowl. Take half a spoonful for children under one year old and one and a half spoonfuls for children aged 3-4 years old. Three times a day.