小兒厭食的中醫症治

Treatment of Food Aversion with Chinese Medicine

陳朝龍(Chao-Long Chen)

《台灣中醫臨床醫學雜誌》 11卷1期 (2005/03) Pp. 40-43

https://doi.org/10.6968/TJCCM.200503.0040

摘要

厭食是指小兒在沒有其他急慢性疾病的情況下，較長期的食慾不振或減退，由於父母過於寵愛，造成小孩飲食沒有節制，或給予不適當的進補，造成脾胃及體質受損，與中醫的不乳、納呆、厭食、惡食、傷食、食滯、病久胃虛等病相關，現代醫學認爲，不良的飲食習慣和生活習慣，精神因素，對微量元素的缺乏，病後恢復期腸胃功能尚未完全恢復，或長期服用藥物，都會影響食慾，除了以中醫固有變證論治治療外，可配合針灸、推拿、外敷及生活、飲食習慣的改變，達到最好的療效。

關鍵字

厭食 ； 納呆 ； 食滯 ； 開胃藥 ； 消食導滯

並列摘要

Aversion to food indicates a decrease in desire for food over an extended period of time that is not associated with any other acute or chronic illness. Children without proper restrictions on their food intake or inappropriate consumption of supplementing medicines can injure the spleen, stomach and constitution of the child. This is related to what Chinese medicine refers to as inability to nurse, torpid intake, food damage, food stagnation and chronic stomach vacuity. According to modem medicine, unhealthy eating and lifestyle habits, psychological factors, deficiency of trace elements, incomplete recovery of digestive function following an illness, or long term taking of medicines can all affect appetite. Aside from identifying patterns and determining treatment, a treatment combined with acupuncture and moxibustion, tui na, external applications, and changes in lifestyle and eating habits will attain the best results.

並列關鍵字

aversion to food ； torpid intake ； food stagnation ； stomach opening medicinals ； dispersing food and abducting stagnation