In the "Juvenile Play", it is recorded, "People take the spleen and stomach as the basis, and the conditioning should be adjusted, and the spleen of children is often insufficient, especially it must not be adjusted." The method of conditioning, not specialized in medicine, only the adjustment of nursing mothers, diet, prudent medicine, so that the spleen and stomach are not injured, it is often fixed at all. ”
There is a good friend around, married for many years to get a son, after the birth of the child, it is a thousand pets, even so, the child grew up to half a year old, or because of a cold and cough, go to the hospital to hang water. The family accompanied the child in the hospital for four or five days, and the condition finally stabilized, and then the whole family paid more attention to the child's living environment, diet and other details. The second time I was sick, it was more than a month, just went to the park to turn around, in the middle of the night on the fever, the mother was frightened, took the child to the hospital overnight, diagnosed with pneumonia, just like this, the baby for the first time for several months was hospitalized, hanging water every day, atomization, stayed in the hospital for nine days, and continued to take medicine to consolidate after returning home. To the third illness, only two months from the last time, the baby fever of 38.5 ° C, the mother took a physical cooling method, paste antipyretic patches, wipe the body, despite the child still had convulsions, and this time in the hospital for nearly half a month. In this way, over and over again, in the process of growing up, going to the hospital has become normalized.
When a child is sick, parents often pay attention to the appearance of the disease, thus ignoring the root cause of the child's illness, the reason is that the child's spleen and stomach are weak. Therefore, by maintaining the spleen and stomach and protecting the vitality, the child's physique can be good and less sick.
How to determine whether your child's spleen and stomach are damaged can be viewed from these six parts of your child:
1. Face color. Children with abnormal spleen and stomach function have a yellowish or dull yellowish complexion, no luster, and are accompanied by symptoms such as lack of energy, easy tiredness, drowsiness, whispering or not wanting to speak.
2. Lips. Children with poor spleen and stomach function, the lips are white, there is no blood, it looks very dry, and even more peeling, cracks, and bad breath. In addition, the spleen main saliva, love to drool when sleeping, is also a manifestation of lack of temper.
3. Tongue moss. The absence of moss on the tongue indicates spleen and stomach disorders; yellowing of the tongue indicates that the spleen and stomach are hot; the tongue is gray-black, indicating that there is phlegm wet or damp heat in the body; the ulceration of the tongue indicates that the spleen and stomach are hot.
4. Nose. Yellow nose hair indicates weakness of the spleen and stomach; the nose is white, accompanied by abdominal pain, mostly caused by spleen and stomach deficiency; the nose wings are red, and there is stomach heat; there are green tendons on the bridge of the nose, and most of the spleen and stomach are weak.
5. Hands. All year round, the hands are cold, indicating that the digestion and absorption capacity of the spleen and stomach is poor, and it is easy to have indigestion; the child's small hands love to sweat, always wet, mostly caused by the spleen and stomach deficiency.
6. Stool. Loose stool, and undigested food residue, indicating spleen and stomach yang deficiency; stool is not formed, accompanied by bloating, tiredness, fatigue, do not like to talk and other symptoms, indicating temper deficiency; dry stool knots, accompanied by bloating, abdominal pain, bitter mouth, bad breath, etc., indicating that the gastrointestinal tract has real heat, need to laxative fire; dry stool knots, like sheep feces eggs, is the manifestation of stomach yin deficiency.
The source of spleen, stomach, qi, blood, and biochemistry is the foundation of acquired nature and the driving force for the healthy growth of children. Parents can compare the above symptoms to assess whether the child's spleen and stomach function is normal.