Children who eat too much meat are prone to spleen yin deficiency

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is extremely important and is the foundation of the human body. The nutrients needed for our life activities are all transported, transformed and absorbed by the spleen. If the spleen and stomach are weak, it will have a great impact on the human body.

To nourish the spleen, you must distinguish between yin and yang. Because the spleen has yin and yang. Let's talk about spleen yin today. Many people don't know about spleen yin now. In fact, this was advocated by Miao Xiyong, a famous doctor in the Ming Dynasty. I have talked about the story of Miao Xiyong in the "One Hundred Schools of Thought" column. He advocated the theory of spleen yin. This theory was later strongly advocated by Ye Tianshi, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty. However, not many people mention this part of the content now, and they don't know how to use this method. It is a content that is almost lost in traditional Chinese medicine and needs to be rediscovered.

However, I have found that most children suffer from insufficient spleen yin, and their number is beyond our imagination. Precisely because everyone does not understand this, they are always unable to treat some diseases well.

Why do so many children nowadays suffer from insufficient spleen yin? My opinion is: because there are too many things that damage yin nowadays. A lot of meat we eat contains hormones because hormones have been added to the feed that animals eat.

This is my opinion, and the conclusion I came to after seeing many children. We need to find an institution to conduct a double-blind controlled statistical study to get the final conclusion. We have no way of knowing whether this effect would occur if we only ate meat from animals raised naturally, because such meat is basically impossible to find.

After hormones enter the human body, they are all positive and hot in nature. If consumed for a long time, the spleen yin will be damaged.

I have met many children with spleen yin deficiency. They eat meat all year round. Some children don't even eat vegetables. Once their parents ask them to eat vegetables, they will cry and make a fuss. The parents are helpless and can only compromise.

Strictly speaking, this situation is the parents' problem. They have no way of disciplining their children and do not know the pros and cons. On the surface they appear to be obeying their children, but in fact they are harming their children.

I once saw a child like this. He was accompanied by his mother, aunt, grandmother and aunt. Five people took care of one child, which shows how much the child was spoiled. They told me that the child usually didn't eat any vegetables, only meat, and was very active, jumping on the back of the sofa like a monkey, with never a moment of peace. It’s hard to imagine what school will be like for this child in the future.

For such families, I will educate them. Generally, parents should educate, and grandparents should educate even more. Many children I have met were spoiled by their grandparents. I will tell them that children are like goldfish. They have no concept of health. As long as it tastes good, they will keep eating until their spleen and stomach are damaged. How can we obey the orders of children?

Because we love our children, we should control them even more. If the child likes to eat something, I will provide him with several times the amount, which will harm the child. Therefore, children should listen to adults and eat only this much every day. It is arranged by adults. Parents must not panic when children frown and immediately give them what children like. Children will be happy, but if problems arise in the future, it will be too late for parents to regret.

So I always say that many children’s illnesses are caused by their parents’ love.

So, how do we judge whether a child has spleen yin deficiency?

What are the general conditions of children with spleen Yin deficiency? Bright red lips, because the spleen's orifice is the mouth, and its beauty is on the lips. The lips of this type of child are often bright red, and the tongue is also red when it is stretched out. The tongue coating is very thin, or there is no tongue coating at all.

Such children often have obvious bags under their eyes, which are slightly red. This is because traditional Chinese medicine believes that the eyelids correspond to the spleen. Traditional Chinese medicine calls the eyelids "meat wheels". Generally, patients with edema have spleen deficiency that cannot control water and moisture, and often experience eyelid edema. In my observation, people with insufficient spleen yin have large eye bags and they are often red, especially in children.

Then I tend to sweat at night and feel hot in my hands and feet.

I tend to feel bloated after meals. This kind of child is particularly active, easily gets angry, has a bad temper, and is prone to crying because he is upset. Many children have almost no quiet time. If you ask him to calm down, you will feel that he is like fire, constantly burning and very easy to get angry.

In addition, children with spleen yin deficiency will have particularly dry stools. Many parents told me that it was strange that their children’s stools were worse than those of adults. They often blocked the toilet and had dry mouths and tongues.

Spleen Yin deficiency can cause many diseases in children, such as being prone to catching colds. Many children catch colds frequently, with some even catching four colds in a month. When you catch a cold, your throat becomes swollen and sore. This is because there is heat in the upper part of the body. Many other diseases are related to insufficient spleen yin. Even many children with autism suffer from insufficient spleen yin.

For children with insufficient spleen yin, increasing their intake of green vegetables can ensure their healthy growth. At the same time, parents should try to give him less spicy food.

Children are our future, and we love them very much. However, we should not let our love harm their health. We must ensure their healthy diet and never let them eat meat all day without eating vegetables. That would be a dereliction of duty on the part of parents.