Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for Diarrhea in Children

We all know that Chinese medicine treats the root cause. When babies have diarrhea, a large part of parents prefer to give their babies medicine. However, they do not know that the key to treating the disease is to understand the symptoms. Only in this way can we treat it according to the symptoms and stay away from the troubles of the disease!

There are several types of diarrhea in children, including food-related diarrhea, cold-deficiency diarrhea, damp-heat diarrhea, etc. So how should TCM treat diarrhea in children?

Including food injury type, deficiency cold type, damp heat type, etc.! Different types of pediatric diarrhea have different treatment methods!

1. Food Injury Type:

Symptoms: Abdominal pain and bloating, heavy diarrhea with a sour, rancid and foul smell, often accompanied by undigested food residues, bad breath and belching, thirst and poor appetite, vomiting and sour urine, thick and greasy yellowish tongue coating, slippery and rapid pulse, and sluggish and purple fingerprints.

To promote bowel movement and relieve constipation: Yi Nian Jin, Qi Zhen Dan, etc.

Strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea: Baohe Pills, Shanzha Jianpi Pills, etc.

2. Deficiency and cold type:

Symptoms: loose and foamy stools, even watery, light in color and slight odor, intestinal rumbling and abdominal pain, pale complexion, clear and long urine, may be accompanied by chills and fever, nasal congestion and runny nose, thin white or greasy tongue coating, soft and slow pulse, and red or light red fingerprints.

Use Qian Yi Liuwei Baizhu Powder or Yihuang Powder, and add Alpinia oxyphylla, Psoralea corylifolia, Evodia rutaecarpa or Zhishu Pills as appropriate.

3. Damp-heat type:

Symptoms: Abdominal pain and diarrhea, yellow-brown, hot and smelly stool, more than ten times a day, which may be violent and urgent, and the stool may be watery, or sticky and uncomfortable. The anus is burning and red, the body has a slight fever, irritability and thirst, less urine and yellow color, red tongue, yellow and greasy coating, slippery and rapid pulse, and purple-red fingerprints.

Use Gegenqinlian Decoction with alkali.

Parents must not prescribe medicine for their children themselves, but should go to the hospital and ask a Chinese medicine expert to examine and analyze the child, and then choose the correct method and provide timely treatment.