Article excerpt: "Traditional Chinese Medicine Ancient Methods for Infant and Child Health Preservation"
Vomiting can be caused by both internal and external factors. Generally speaking, internal factors are more common in cases of spleen and stomach weakness, while external factors are more common in cases of food damage, heatstroke, and coldness that harm the stomach. In traditional Chinese medicine, the concept of "injuring heat" is similar to the gastrointestinal cold in Western medicine. After being injured by the heat pathogen, people generally experience vomiting and diarrhea, especially during the transition between summer and autumn when they are prone to feeling the heat pathogen and vomiting and diarrhea. Another issue is that after suffering from wind cold, in addition to fever, some children with weak spleen and stomach may also experience vomiting and diarrhea.
Reason for vomiting
There are both internal and external factors. The internal cause is that children's digestive system is relatively weak, making it difficult to digest difficult to digest foods. Another external cause is improper eating, as well as stimulation from wind and cold or external pathogens, which can easily lead to vomiting when combined.
Vomiting caused by wind and cold may have other symptoms besides vomiting, such as a cold, cough, and fever.
Vomiting caused by improper breastfeeding is accompanied by bloating and abdominal pain. The food that is vomited is undigested, and children with truly weak spleen and stomach may not vomit much, and it is slowly vomited, not very acute, which does not belong to the harm caused by dairy food.
Methods of dietary therapy
Eating and vomiting
The main manifestation is that the vomit contains some sour and smelly lumps of milk and some indigestible substances. Not fond of eating, with foul breath, a strong odor in the mouth, bloating, feeling comfortable after vomiting, and constipation and odor. Anything that meets these criteria is vomiting caused by an unhealthy diet.
Dietary therapy formula:
San Xian Tea.
5 grams each of roasted malt, roasted hawthorn, and roasted koji. After cooking, drink it as tea.
Malt can dissolve and digest food, including raw malt, fried malt, and roasted malt. Roasted malt has the strongest ability to dissolve and digest starch based foods. Roasted hawthorn is called roasted hawthorn, which is good at digesting greasy foods such as meat. Shenqu is a traditional Chinese medicine that is fermented from a mixture of wheat flour, bran, and various medicines. When roasted, it is called Jiaoshenqu. These three things combined can promote the secretion of digestive juices, stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, and have good digestive and spleen strengthening effects.
Stomach heat type vomiting
Having stomach heat itself is an internal factor, while eating a little food can easily trigger vomiting due to external factors. The vomiting is very fast, frequent, and loud, which belongs to stomach heat type vomiting. The amount of vomiting is particularly high, the smell is particularly unpleasant, the child has heavy breath, likes to drink more water when thirsty, their lips are red, their tongue is also red, and the tongue coating is relatively dense and yellow. The face is also prone to redness, or in severe cases, some children may experience fever, restlessness, dry stools, and yellow urine.
Dietary therapy formula:
Bamboo and Reed Root Tea.
Take 10 grams each of bamboo and reed roots, boil two bowls of water for 15 minutes, let the medicine cool, and drink half a bowl each time. Drinking twice or three times a day can stop vomiting.
Zhuru is the inner layer of bamboo before it fully matures. After removing it, it is processed and dried to make Zhuru, which has a soft and tender heart. Zhuru has a good effect on clearing stomach heat and can also stop vomiting and phlegm. Reed roots are the rhizomes of reeds, which have a sweet taste, a sweet taste, and a cold nature. Its functions include clearing heat and generating fluids, relieving fire, stopping nausea, and nourishing yin, all of which are the benefits of reed roots. The combination of the two can not only clear heat and stop vomiting, but also prevent bitter cold from harming the stomach, and the effect is very good.
Vomiting of spleen and stomach weakness type
This type of vomiting usually has a relatively slow onset and a prolonged duration. These types of children do not vomit after eating, and may take a long time to vomit. Sometimes they experience vomiting, and sometimes they stop. This type of child usually has more spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. The deficiency of the stomach and intestines is usually combined with cold, and in reality, it is usually combined with heat. The deficiency and cold type also manifests as the body being afraid of cold, and the symptoms of the stomach and intestines first appear when it cools slightly. They don't like to eat anymore and vomit and diarrhea.
Because deficiency and cold are combined, in addition to the symptoms mentioned earlier, vomiting caused by deficiency and cold is also characterized by physical and mental fatigue, limb weakness, and mild abdominal pain. It gradually and faintly hurts, and then becomes comfortable when warmed up. This is achieved by covering with a hot water bottle or hand, and the stool is relatively thin and shapely. These are all manifestations of spleen stomach deficiency and cold vomiting.
Dietary therapy formula:
Ginger and red date soup.
Squeeze out the juice from 5 large slices of ginger and set aside for later use. Boil water with only five red dates for about 15 minutes. When the jujube water is not so hot anymore, add the ginger juice that was just squeezed and stir before drinking. Drink half a bowl each time, two to three times a day is enough. If the child is still experiencing bloating, you can add 5 grams of dried tangerine peel and cook a soup with red dates. This effect is very good.
Prevention
Don't eat too fast or too quickly, don't overeat, don't eat some stimulating, spicy, or greasy foods; When feeding infants and young children, it is important not to be too hasty, as the air can enter at once. When the air flows out, it can easily cause vomiting of food and milk. After feeding the child, it is necessary to pat them to release the air from their gastrointestinal tract, causing hiccups. These are all areas that require special attention.
Adjustment and protection
1. When feeding, do not feed too much at once, eat small meals multiple times, mainly liquid food, to avoid vomiting and absorption of nutrients.
2. If vomiting is particularly severe, use ginger juice as an emergency solution. It can help smooth the smooth muscles of the gastrointestinal tract, dilate the stomach wall, and lower the breath, which can alleviate vomiting.
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