The spleen and stomach are the organs that digest food, and if the spleen is weak, it is incapable of transporting and transforming food, and the child always does not want to eat, and has a poor appetite. There are many reasons for this, for example, frequent accumulation of food will lead to spleen deficiency, which in turn will aggravate the accumulation of food; in addition, frequent use of some medicines, such as antibiotics, etc., will also lead to injury to the spleen and stomach, and spleen deficiency. In layman's terms, antibiotics kill the beneficial bacteria in the intestinal tract, leading to problems with digestion and absorption of food, and there are especially many such children nowadays. So, when the child often have no appetite, do not want to eat food, a meal on the stomach bloating, we have to consider, whether the spleen is weak.
A child with a weak spleen is incapable of transportation, spleen qi is insufficient, incapable of transporting fluids to the large intestine, so it will lead to the child's constipation, especially the spleen yin deficiency of the child, constipation is particularly common, because the toxins are stored in the body, incapable of being discharged, and repeatedly be absorbed, so that such a child is often a lot of physical problems. Spleen deficiency, the same will also cause diarrhea, this is because the spleen is unable to transport food, so some children will appear to eat on the situation, and often there is no digested food in the stool, this is because the spleen can not putrefaction of food, the ancients called this "complete grain is not chemical", such a child, the absorption function must be bad! The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
According to Chinese medicine, the spleen is earth, the lungs are gold, the earth is gold, that is to say, only the normal function of the spleen and stomach, able to absorb nutrients, in order to ensure that the lungs of the ability to resist evil. So, often parents ask me: "How my child always cold ah?" To which I will answer again and again and again, "We must learn more about Chinese medicine, ah, such a child, need to tonify the spleen and earth, so that the positive qi is sufficient, in order to stop colds often ah." This reasoning, I guess I will continue to talk about, I hope that parents and friends must have a long-term vision, do not just hope to ask for a cold prescription, but to solve the fundamental problem.
For children, the lack of nutrition can cause them to be shorter than children of the same age. I have seen many such children, some of whom are a head shorter than the other shortest students in the class. Such children are often the result of under-nutrition, and the parents seem to be aware of this problem, so they desperately try to make all sorts of delicacies for their children and give them more to eat. This is the result of not understanding the reasoning of traditional Chinese medicine. The child's spleen and stomach are already weak and incapable of transporting food, and the more food they eat, the more incapable they are of transporting food, which results in piling up, leading to stagnation of food, which is then even more spleen-deficient. Therefore, at this time, you should first tonify the spleen and stomach, so that the spleen and stomach is strong, and then eat food, in order to absorb the nutrients ah.
The Chinese medicine believes that all dampness, swelling and fullness, all belong to the spleen, if the child's spleen is weak, eat in the nutrient powerless to absorb, waste powerless to discharge, it is very easy to accumulate in the body, the formation of phlegm and dampness, so the child will form the state of the fat, look very fat, but a movement on the wheezing, sweaty, such a child, the growth and development of the child, will also have problems. Moreover, children with heavy dampness are prone to various skin problems such as eczema, which is also an important problem for parents. In fact, fundamentally, it is closely related to spleen deficiency.
When the spleen and stomach are weak and the spleen and earth are insufficient, then the lungs and gold will naturally have problems, so that the lungs' ability to resist diseases will be reduced. Such children, often cold winds blow, began to cough, and more likely to suffer from colds, colds, coughs are often lingering, some children can even cough for two or three months, this time, parents are often particularly anxious, with a variety of so-called "cough" medicines, desperately to the child to take, but we have to know that the spleen is weak is the root! Ah, so, at this time should be tonic spleen and stomach, increase lung qi, which is called "cultivate soil to produce gold", only such, can really let the child's body recovery.
The Chinese medicine believes that the liver is wood, the spleen is earth, the liver main drainage, and emotionally related, the liver wood problem, will affect the spleen earth, in turn, when the spleen earth weakness, the liver wood is also easy to problem, this is called "earth is weak, the wood shaking". Now, we see a lot of problems with emotional detachment due to spleen deficiency, and even many children with Tourette's syndrome have seen great improvement in their condition after regulating their spleen and stomach.
The Chinese medicine believes that the gas has the role of fixing, can fix the fluid, spleen qi deficiency, lung qi is also weak, qi deficiency is unable to fix the fluid, then a little movement, will sweat, now many children are born by cesarean section, at birth, did not go through the mouth of the birth canal of the squeeze, the lungs are missing an important exercise of a link, so cesarean section of the child, there is a big feature, that is, a little bit of exercise! Therefore, children born by cesarean section are characterized by sweating when they exercise a little, which is a sign of insufficient lung qi, and it is necessary to tonify the spleen and lungs to increase positive qi. In addition, the spleen Yin insufficiency of the child, easy to sleep at night also sweat, which is called night sweating.
Chinese medicine says "spleen in the liquid for saliva", the child spleen deficiency is easy to "salivate", often drooling. Especially when sleeping, easy to drool.
At the same time, if the child is sleeping, always eyes are not closed tightly, half-open eyes, this is also a manifestation of spleen deficiency, the founder of Chinese medicine pediatrics, the Song Dynasty famous doctor Qian Yi said that this is called "sleep dew eyes", mainly because the spleen corresponds to the eyelids.
Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is the main meat, the main limbs, therefore, the spleen deficiency of the child, the limbs will be weak, weak. At the same time, the color of the spleen is yellow, if the spleen is deficient, then the color of the earth will be flooded on the surface of the body, so the child with a serious spleen deficiency, the face of the withered yellow, no luster, we Asians are yellow skin, but it is a light red and yellow vaguely, it should not be a withered yellow, so parents once you see a child like this, you have to think about whether or not to replenish the spleen.
I think, pediatric massage methods, is very suitable for us parents to learn to operate, such as chiropractic, if you can adhere to, the child's spleen and stomach recovery is particularly beneficial, there are many other methods, such as pushing the spleen meridian, kneading the four transverse stripes, kneading the board door, kneading the inner eight trigrams, kneading the abdomen and so on, all of these methods, all of them, have the role of elimination of food to strengthen the spleen. Because the child's meridians are more sensitive, so as long as the child's parents learn to do it seriously, the child's spleen and stomach recovery is very good.
In short, the child is the future of our family, is the future of our society, we hope that the child can have a healthy spleen and stomach, have a strong body, which requires all of us together with the heart, to come up with a variety of ways to protect the child, I hope that under our efforts, the world's children are more and more healthy!
--Excerpted from "Let the child not fever, not cough, not food accumulation"
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