Professor LIU Yi-min's Treatment for Infantile Anorexia and Commonly Used TCM Pairs / 中国中医药信息杂志

ABSTRACT

Anorexia is a common pediatric and multiple chronic appetite disorder disease. Long-term anorexia can easily lead to adverse effects on nutritional status, growth, intellectual development and physical and mental health of children. Professor LIU Yi-min, the national famous TCM doctor in Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has much experience in treating this disease, believing that the pathogenesis key is spleen and stomach disharmony and inability to transport. According to clinical experience, it should be treated from indigestion of stomach, spleen dampness, spleen qi deficiency, and spleen weakenness and liver excess. The treatment is to eliminate indigestion, tonify spleen and expel humidity, tonify spleen and nourish qi, and tonify spleen and harmonize liver. The commonly used TCM pairs were Charred Triplet and Galli Gigerii Endothelium Corneum, Plantaginis Herba and Dioscoreae Rhizoma, Hungaian Morningglory Root and Marginate Rockbell Herb and Capsella bursa-pastoris and Chrysanthemi Flos.