[Chinese medicine science] Children’s recurrent constipation do not worry about the external treatment of Chinese medicine has a wonderful trick
Constipation is one of the digestive system disorders in children, which is often characterized by dry stools and difficulty in defecation, or difficulty in defecation despite the intention to defecate. Repeated constipation without effective treatment often leads to abdominal distension and abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and can seriously affect the growth and development of children and their physical and mental health. During the epidemic, babies have less exercise, resulting in weakened digestive function. Recently, the Chinese medicine department of the Municipal Maternal and Child Health Hospital (Children’s Hospital) has received many inquiries from parents about constipation in their babies. Here are some tips for parents on how to treat constipation in Chinese medicine.
According to Chinese medicine, the main causes of constipation are
- Dietary disorders, the spleen and stomach transportation and transformation disorders, milk food stagnation in the middle jiao, long and accumulated heat in the stomach and intestines, causing constipation.
- Emotional and mental disorders, children often have a surplus of liver, emotional and mental disorders, then the qi stagnation and obstruction, the internal organs of the abnormal ventilation and descent resulting in constipation; 3.
- Dryness and internal heat, excessive consumption of spicy and hot things, or external warmth and disease burning fluid, resulting in dryness and heat in the intestines, dryness and astringency, unfavorable conduction, dry stools, difficult to discharge.
- Deficiency of qi and blood, children are picky and anorexic, insufficient diet, no source of qi and blood production, resulting in lack of blood to moisten the intestinal tract, resulting in dry and difficult to move stools, or lack of middle qi and weak conduction, resulting in difficulty in defecation, or after heavy sweating, vomiting, diarrhea and injury to fluids, resulting in dry intestinal tract and difficulty in passing stools.
Constipation has been elaborated by many doctors since ancient times, and there are also many effective prescriptions. However, children are resistant to taking medicine, so the external treatment method of Chinese medicine for babies who resist taking medicine has also developed a number of simple and effective external treatment methods, the following is a brief introduction.
- Pediatric massage: pediatric massage is a therapy to adjust the function of the internal organs through the meridian system by stimulating acupuncture points with the guidance of the doctrine of meridians in Chinese medicine. Many parents have also learned and understood part of the knowledge through various media. For the treatment of constipation, we commonly use the following techniques: tonic spleen meridian, rubbing Panmen, tonic kidney meridian, transporting earth into water, abdominal massage, rubbing the tail of the turtle, pushing the lower seven bones, etc.
- Acupuncture point paste: you can take rhubarb, Citrus aurantium and other drugs to break the Qi and dissolve the accumulation, laxative and laxative to make a paste to be applied on the acupuncture points of children such as Shen Que (navel), Tian Shu and Da Heng, which can treat constipation, so that the drug penetrates through the skin and reaches the corresponding internal organs through the meridian system, playing a similar effect of “targeted drug delivery”.
- Honey suppository: honey is a kind of Chinese medicine, which has the effect of tonifying the spleen and stomach, laxative and laxative, at the same time applicable to deficiency evidence constipation and actual evidence constipation. The special method of boiling into suppositories to enhance its function of tonifying the spleen and stomach, after the anal plug administration, can make its drug ingredients directly on the large intestine, and slowly released in the intestine, so that the dry intestine is fully moistened, is a kind of external treatment method of both the symptoms and the root cause.
Although Chinese medicine has many unique treatments for constipation, and the efficacy is very reliable. But to solve the problem of recurrent constipation in children, parents also need to shape a healthy and reasonable dietary structure for their children. The combination of medical treatment and health care can promote the healthy growth of children.
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