Children and digestion

[Guest guest]

Recently there have been several discussions of Pediatric issues -

since digestion is a favorite subject of mine as I consider it to be

a basic key for achieving and maintaining healthI would like to

encourage all parents and practioners to understand the importance

of digestion to successful life..

 

Many parents study every kind of subject on raising healthy happy

children. Yet few go deeply into the issues of how to maintain

health in their children. A child who eats properly simply does not

develop most of the common childhood ailmants - including

personality and affect disorders. The beginning study should be on

digestion as this will save your child from many sufferings and

unnecessary challenges. Please study everything you can from TCM on

how to raise helthy children. Bob Flaws and Honora Wolfe have

written extensively on Pediatrics - they have a very important

pamphlet on children and phlegm - understand the concepts in that

pamphlet and one will go far in helping ones child avoid many

ordinary disease processes.

 

Most Western concepts about diet are not appropriate for children at

all. The most important issues are to protect the Stomach and

Spleen - which mainly means protection from COLD!!! (meaning

everything cold in temperature and cold in their TCM energetics) -

the stomach should remain moist and never be allowed to become dry

(so the habit of feeding children crackers and other dry foods is

not correct)- the food should be mild (without excess tastes - like

sweet, sour, etc.)- children should eat only a little fruit and it

should be lightly cooked without any excess sour taste - NEVER!!!!!

overeat - never eat 'heavy' food like fried foods, oily foods, etc. -

eat a light evening meal - the food should be warm, soupy, mild in

taste, savory and uncutous (which means with a little oil) it should

be tasty and readily acceptable to the child - overly sweet foods

such as candy, cake, ice cream are very harmful to the spleen and

should be avoided as if poisons (which they are since they

completely imbalance the childs body starting with the process of

causing too much dampness in the Spleen which is the cause of phlegm

and the beginning stage of dozens of disease processes).

 

I will try to post something on the pathologies associated with poor

digestion soon.