Dietary Remedy for Pediatric Malnutrition (Childhood Indigestion)
Family gatherings often lead to overeating, causing childhood malnutrition (pediatric indigestion). Pediatric malnutrition results from spleen-stomach deficiency and impaired digestion/absorption, a chronic condition. Treatment should focus on regulating the spleen and stomach. Combining appropriate medicinal porridge therapy helps relieve symptoms and promote recovery. Below are some recommended medicinal porridges:
Radish Porridge:
One white radish, washed and sliced, boiled for 30 minutes, then add 50g rice, cook until rice is soft and broth thick. Add appropriate brown sugar and boil again. Used for pediatric indigestion and bloating.
Chinese Yam Porridge:
100g rice, washed, combined with 100g Chinese yam slices, cooked until rice is soft. Add appropriate rock sugar when serving—beneficial for tonifying spleen and stomach, nourishing yin and body fluids.
Strengthening Spleen and Digestive Porridge:
15g each lotus seeds, lotus root, roasted barley sprouts, and hyacinth beans; 10g scorched hawthorn; 6g fermented grain (wrapped in cloth). Combine in a pot, add sufficient water, simmer for 30 minutes, remove residue, add 15g glutinous rice, and cook into porridge. Add a little white sugar to taste. Serve warm. Benefits: strengthens spleen and stomach, aids digestion, resolves food stagnation. Used for children with pale yellow complexion, irritability, hot palms and soles, poor appetite, and abdominal distension.