What kind of massage is needed for children with spleen deficiency? Be careful, these are the symptoms of spleen deficiency

Nowadays, many children's spleen and stomach are always weak. This is also the main reason why many parents find that their babies don't like to eat. Babies don't like to eat because they have no appetite, plus their spleen is weak and they have indigestion, so they don't feel hungry. Parents can give their children massage to relieve spleen deficiency, but there are skills in the massage process. You cannot use excessive force and you must keep the technique stable. You can also go to a professional Chinese medicine institution to give your child massage.

1. How to massage children with spleen deficiency

If a child has spleen deficiency, you can hold the child's left hand with your left hand, and use the thumb of your right hand to push along the radial side of the child's thumb from the fingertip to the base of the finger. This is to replenish the spleen meridian. Repeat 100 times. The stomach meridian point is located on the first segment of the thumb near the palm end, but not the entire thumb. The centripetal force is for supplementing, while the centrifugal force is for clearing, so pushing from the base of the finger to the fingertip is to clear the stomach meridian. Hold the child in your arms, hold the child's hand with your left hand, place the thumb of your right hand on the child's left and right stomach meridians, and clear them 50 times. Abdominal massage The child's stomach and intestines are on the tummy, that is, the child's abdomen. Rub the child's tummy clockwise and the child will immediately feel much more comfortable. Rub Zusanli. Zusanli is also an important acupoint for regulating the spleen and stomach and replenishing the middle and beneficial qi. The Zusanli point is also easy to find. It is located four fingers below the outer kneecap. Rub each leg for 1 minute.

2. Symptoms of spleen deficiency in children

The spleen is the foundation of the human body and belongs to the earth element, so it is the root. A bad spleen will directly affect other organs. Children with spleen deficiency may have symptoms such as eczema, impetigo, thrush, jaundice, and wet hands and feet. These are the manifestations. It can also cause constipation, diarrhea, phlegm and cough, which are internal symptoms. The problems caused by lack of trace elements in Western medicine are also due to spleen deficiency and poor absorption. Therefore, the direct problem of spleen deficiency is indigestion and poor absorption. For example, calcium deficiency can cause rickets, night sweats, and irritability. Symptoms of spleen deficiency include night sweats, developmental delay, especially lack of muscle, obesity, restless sleep, and bulging eyes. The consequences of delaying the timing of spleen replenishment are mainly poor development, susceptibility to spleen deficiency, and even cough and asthma.

3. Folk remedies for treating spleen deficiency in children

Use one qian of ginseng, two qian of white atractylodes, one qian of poria, five fen of roasted licorice, three slices of ginger, and one date. Add two cups of water and boil until one cup remains. Drink warm before meals. This recipe is called "Sijunzi Decoction". For children, steam and heat the ingredients and use one liang each of Atractylodes macrocephala, White Poria cocos, and White Peony Root, half a liang of licorice, and add ginger and jujube to boil and take. The name of this prescription is "Chilijia San". Diarrhea due to spleen deficiency. Use five cents of Atractylodes macrocephala and one ounce of Paeonia lactiflora, grind them into powder, add rice and make them into balls as big as walnuts. Take fifty balls each time with rice soup. Take twice a day, add nutmeg and simmer into powder in winter. Another recipe: Use half a liter of sorghum rice and one cup of Shenqu, and cook them into porridge every day. Another recipe: Use a yellow hen, roast it, apply salt and vinegar on it, cook it and eat it.

Four stages of spleen deficiency in children

1. When a child is just born, some of them have internal heat in the mother's body, which manifests as fetal toxins, such as jaundice, thrush, etc. This is actually fetal toxins caused by spleen heat. This is the first chance of spleen deficiency.

2. The second period is around 3 months. At this time, because of the increased appetite and some parents overfeeding their children for a long time, the spleen and stomach become sick. Some of the reasons are due to breast milk intolerance, while others are due to excessive diet. You can use barley porridge to remove dampness and heat. Although it is slow, it can have a long-term effect.

3. The third chance of spleen deficiency is after adding complementary foods, eating more and having more contact with the outside world, which can easily lead to diarrhea due to indigestion, colds, etc. At this time, the main thing is to help digestion, take probiotics and other things that help digestion.

4. The fourth opportunity is after the baby is 1 year old. The baby has the ability to choose food independently. If the spleen and stomach have not been well maintained before, the baby's overeating now will lead to spleen deficiency. At this stage, these babies are prone to fever, especially fever with symptoms of heat, such as pharyngitis, tonsillitis, etc. At this time, you should pay attention to controlling your diet and discovering food accumulation in time.

Dietary treatment for spleen deficiency in children

To prevent spleen deficiency in children, parents must feed their children properly, not eat too much meat, to avoid food poisoning; do not abuse some heat-clearing and fire-purging drugs, heat-clearing and fire-purging oral liquids, etc., to avoid bitter and cold food that can hurt the stomach; do not eat too much snacks, etc. Children with weak spleen and stomach and internal coldness should develop the habit of drinking hot drinks and should not eat too much yogurt to avoid disrupting the acid-base balance in the intestine. You can eat more yam, taro, pumpkin, and coix seed, and less greasy and cold food. For home use, you can use Chinese patent medicines such as Shenling Baizhu San and Yingying Jianpi San. Children with internal heat should eat less dry, fried, and spicy foods, drink less liquid protein foods such as milk, and eat more foods such as pumpkin, carrots, and kelp. For home medication, you can choose Xiaoer Huaji Oral Liquid to achieve the effect of clearing heat and digesting food, or take Feier Pills intermittently, which has the effects of clearing heat, digesting food and relieving constipation. Parents should remember not to overuse cold medicines just because their baby has dry stools.