Patient's question:
My daughter is six years old. Sometimes, she experiences one side of her face being hot while the other side is normal. This can occur sometimes before going to sleep and sometimes while playing during the day. (This phenomenon occurs in autumn and winter.)Doctor's answer:
This is what I found online, and you can refer to it.Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for Pediatric Anorexia
Pediatric anorexia is one of the most common clinical syndromes. Practitioners generally apply methods such as harmonizing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, and aiding digestion. However, through clinical observation, it is frequently observed that cases caused by yin deficiency are not uncommon. According to the principle of "treating deficiency with tonification" in traditional Chinese medicine, using nourishing yin and clearing heat as the primary approach yields rapid and effective results. As physician Wang Shoutang stated in Yi Yuan: (Children are governed by the spring season, embodying the virtue of wood, like the buds of flowers or the calyxes of fruits. Their youthful yang is not yet fully developed, and their youthful yin is not yet grown. When youthful yang is insufficient, the skin and muscles become thin and easily susceptible to external pathogens; when youthful yin is underdeveloped, the internal organs are delicate, prone to transformation, and easily damaged, making children more susceptible to illness than adults. Therefore, preserving yin is the foremost priority in treating pediatric conditions).
The root cause of yin deficiency in pediatric anorexia is primarily stomach yin deficiency. Its clinical manifestations include: emaciation, heat in the palms and soles, low-grade fever with night sweats, restlessness, lack of appetite or poor appetite, preference for cold drinks, craving for raw and cold foods, drinking water before eating, consuming both water and food together, or drinking cold water alone while refusing to eat, dry stools, short and dark urine, red tongue with little or no coating, and a slippery or thready and rapid pulse. Treatment Principle: Nourishing yin and generating fluids, clearing heat and harmonizing the stomach. Herbal Formula: Sandarac, Uncaria gambir, raw rice, wheat sprouts, Polygonatum, radix rehmanniae, cortex mori, Coptis chinensis, lotus seeds, Semen perilla, Alpinia oxyphylla, Bupleurum, licorice, and Raphanus sativus as the basic formula.
1. If there is concurrent yin deficiency with liver heat, such as redness and inflammation on the left cheek and left ear, irritability, easy awakening or crying with teeth grinding, a red tongue with thin yellow coating or yellowish-white coating on one side, and a wiry and thready rapid pulse, add Cicada shell, Gentiana, Coptis, Moutan, Bupleurum, and Anemarrhena.
2. If there is concurrent