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Prince Ginseng and Pig Belly Soup Solves the Child's Temperament Anorexia

Medical Guidance: Pediatrics Deputy Chief Physician Luo Fei

Pictures/Pediatrics Liang Rui attending physician and Ouyang Xuezheng attending physician

Concept of anorexia in children

Pediatrics Anorexia refers to a condition in which children lose their appetite for a long time and lose their diet.

The hazards of anorexia in children

Long-term anorexia is not conducive to the normal growth of the baby's height and weight. In severe cases, it can cause malnutrition and a deficiency of multiple vitamins and trace elements, resulting in "pale face, thin skin, shortness", which seriously affects the baby's health.

Causes of anorexia in children

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that anorexia is mainly caused by insufficient stomach yin, insufficient temper or dietary stagnation.

How to distinguish a child's anorexia is caused by insufficient temper

Symptoms: After eating, I saw abdominal distension, excessive stools, sallow complexion, fatigue, and thin body.

Tongue coating and stool conditions: tongue is pale, thin and white, and tooth marks on the edge of the tongue. The stool is loose, the color is light and odorless, and there are indigested food residues. Scenarios where

cause insufficient temper: acute disease recovery period, especially after using more antibiotics , or cold medicines; during chronic disease.

Anorexia caused by insufficient temper, how to use diet therapy to regulate

Prince Ginseng Pig Belly Soup

Ingredients: Prince Ginseng 15 grams, white lotus seeds, Gorgeous kelp 15 grams, Huaishan 15 grams, 9 grams of white poria cocos, 3 slices of ginger, and one pig belly.

Method: Wash the pork belly in , put it in hot water, boil it for five minutes, pick it up; soak the water chestnut, yam and lotus seeds in clean water for half an hour; add water to simmer all the ingredients for two hours, add a little salt and then make it.

Expert Profile

Luo Fei, , deputy chief physician of pediatrics, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, PhD, and heir of the second batch of famous old Chinese medicine academic experience in Guangdong Province. The main research directions are the digestive and respiratory diseases of the children, and they are good at treating diseases such as external fever, diarrhea, anorexia, malnutrition, , and cough in children.

visit time: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday; Wednesday morning; Friday afternoon.

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Editor: Liu Qingjun

Review: Zheng Xiaoying, Yang Yan Editor: Zhong Tianshuo