Patient's question:
Infantile diarrhea is a gastrointestinal disease, and this disease has a high incidence during the summer. The most prominent symptom is the abnormal shape of the child's stool, but it also presents with other symptoms. In traditional Chinese medicine, we can adopt traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods. What are the specific details?Doctor's answer:
Additive and Subtractive Treatments (1) and Types of Food Damage:Add meat to Bamen (LI 20), Zhongwan (CV 12), Shu Tian (ST 36), spleen-strengthening Tui Pishan, clear-intestine and spleen-strengthening method, and Xiaoshi Huafu Zhixie (2).
For the Cold-Dampness Type:
Strengthen the spleen to expel dampness, warm the middle to stop diarrhea, divide the three gates, rub the external pregnancy area, push the spleen meridian, and push the large intestine (3).
For the Damp-Heat Type (including summer-dampness diarrhea and turbidity):
Clear the intestines, remove the six fu organs, rub Shu Tian (ST 36), push the spleen meridian, and push the large intestine—all are methods to clear heat, dry dampness, regulate qi, and stop diarrhea (4).
For the Spleen-Deficiency Type:
Strengthen the spleen to replenish qi, consolidate the intestines to stop diarrhea, add pushing the three gates, spinal channel scraping, pressing Zusanli (ST 36), pushing the spleen meridian, and pushing the large intestine.