小儿厌食脾失健运证贵在运脾

Making the spleen healthy is important to unhealthy spleen syndrome of pediatric anorexia

脾胃在生理和病理上互为因果,脾为阴土,胃为阳土,若饮食失调,必伤脾胃,胃阴伤则不思进食,脾阳伤则运化失职而产生厌食症。针对小儿厌食症和脾失健运的理论基础,提出小儿厌食症的治疗重在运脾。介绍了6种运脾法及其适应证,并举2则案例以资验证。

Spleen （especially pancreas） and stomach interact with each other physiologically and pathologically, because spleen is negative earth, while stomach is positive earth. If the diet is not suitable, it will injure both of them. If the stomach yin is injured, then the patient will not have a good appetite ; if the spleen yang is injured, its digestion function will be weakened and anorexia will result, so it is emphasized the importance of treating spleen to the disease. Six spleen-healthening methods and their suitable syndrome are instructed, with 2 cases for reference.