Huang Shen's experience in the treatment of infantile anorexia based on the liver and spleen harmonization theory
Infantile anorexia is a common digestive system disease characterized by loss of appetite in children.This article introduces the clinical syndrome differentiation and treatment ideas,prescription experience of Huang Shen in his treatment of infantile anorexia based on the liver and spleen harmonization theory.Professor Huang Shen believes that the pathogeneses of the disease involve spleen-stomach qi deficiency,milk and food retention and stagnation,spleen deficiency and liver qi hyperactivity,disharmony between the spleen and stomach,dampness-heat of the spleen and stomach.His clinical treatment underscores activating the spleen and dispersing the stagnated liver qi,supplemented by methods of resolving food retention and stagnation,tonifying spleen qi,nourishing stomach yin and clearing internal heat.Taking into account the pathophysiological characteristics of infants,this paper summarizes the basic therapeutic prescription for infantile anorexia based on the liver and spleen harmonization theory.The modified prescription can be applied in the treatment of infantile anorexia to strengthen the infants'spleen,disperse the stagnated liver qi,and to regulate and harmonize the organs as a whole.A case study of infantile anorexia patients treated with the basic therapeutic prescription by Professor Huang Shen is attached,which is expected to provide reference and trigger discussion among clinicians in this respect.
traditional Chinese medicineliver and spleen harmonizationinfantile anorexiaHuang Shen