Is massage effective for children with anorexia?

If parents spoil their children for a long time or adopt unhealthy ways to feed their children, it will cause the children to have anorexia symptoms. Children's bodies are relatively fragile, so it is best not to use drugs to treat diseases, so as not to reduce the body's resistance. Many parents choose massage to treat their children's diseases. So is massage for children with anorexia effective?

(1) Improper feeding and eating: The principle of child feeding should be “feeding at the right time and eating in moderation”. Irregular and uncontrolled eating can cause damage to the spleen and stomach, weakening the function of receiving, transporting and transforming food, and leading to loss of appetite or aversion to dairy products.

(2) Phlegm and dampness: Nursing mothers overeat cold foods, and children are addicted to eating raw and cold fruits and vegetables, which damages the spleen yang, causes the internal generation of phlegm and dampness, and blocks the central region, affecting the digestive function of the spleen and stomach, and causing anorexia.

(3) Worms damage the spleen: Children with weak spleen and stomach, who eat unclean food or have the habit of sucking their fingers are prone to intestinal worms. The accumulation of worms disrupts the spleen and stomach qi, affects digestion and absorption and causes anorexia.

(4) Weak spleen and stomach: Children’s insufficiency and lack of postnatal nourishment may lead to weak spleen and stomach, or prolonged illness may damage the spleen and stomach, causing a decline in digestive function and leading to anorexia.

(1) Milk and food stagnation:

1) Treatment principles: Digest food and relieve stagnation.

2) Massage prescription: Clear the Banmen 100 times, reverse the inner eight trigrams 100 times, push the four horizontal lines 100 times, pinch the spine 6 times, retreat the six fu organs 100 times, and rub the Hegu 100 times.

(2) Phlegm and dampness growth:

1) Treatment principles: Strengthen the spleen, dry dampness and resolve phlegm.

2) Massage prescription: tonify the spleen meridian 200 times, rub Yiwofeng 100 times, rub Wailaogong 100 times, massage the abdomen for 3 minutes, reverse the inner Bagua 100 times, pinch the spine 6 times, and push the four horizontal lines 100 times.

The treatment of children's anorexia needs to be carried out from multiple aspects to achieve good therapeutic effects. Not only does it require the use of traditional Chinese medicine to treat the disease, but parents must pay more attention to their children's diet and cannot always force their children to eat. It is best to guide their children to eat and enrich their diet at the same time.