What are the methods of traditional Chinese medicine for treating indigestion in children?

There are many reasons for indigestion in children. We mainly believe that the child's digestive system is not yet perfect. When encountering some difficult-to-digest foods, they will remain in the stomach and can neither be digested nor eliminated, thus causing stomach discomfort. Traditional Chinese medicine generally treats indigestion in children by regulating the spleen and stomach. However, we should give different treatments to different children according to their specific circumstances.

The spleen plays an important role in the digestion and absorption of food. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that children's spleen and stomach function is weak. Eating too much will damage the stomach, and being too hungry will damage the spleen. It advocates gradually restoring children's digestive function by strengthening the spleen. Because children's digestive organs are not fully developed, the mucous membranes in the stomach and intestines are relatively tender, and the secretion of digestive juices is insufficient, children's digestive function is relatively weak. This is also an important reason why children are prone to indigestion and loss of appetite. Many behaviors that do not have adverse effects on adults may be difficult for children to adapt to, which requires parents to pay special attention.

If insufficient attention is paid to the type and quality of food consumed during feeding, it can easily cause indigestion symptoms such as bloating, loose stools, and loss of appetite in children. The spleen is the foundation of acquired constitution and the foundation of children. Its main physiological functions are to transport and transform, to raise the clear and to control the blood. That is, the spleen plays an important role in the digestion and absorption of food. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the food ingested by the human body, after being digested and absorbed by the spleen and stomach, depends on the transportation and transformation function of the spleen to transform the water and grain into fine substances, and distribute the water and grain essence throughout the body through the spleen's transportation and dispersion function, so that various tissues and organs such as the internal organs, limbs and bones can get adequate nutrition to maintain normal physiological functions.

After reading the above introduction, everyone has a preliminary understanding of some functions of the spleen. We have found in clinical practice that disharmony between the spleen and stomach is a very important cause of indigestion. Weak spleen function can also cause stomach digestive discomfort. More serious cases may even lead to delayed growth and development in children and cause adverse symptoms, so regular treatment must be taken for indigestion to avoid delays in the disease and miss the best time for treatment.