Infant Diarrhea [3] refers to whose age is from one month to 3 years old with frequent defecation, loose or watery stool. The infant diarrhea is also known as indigestion. It often happens in babies between a few months to 2-years-old. Treatment Methods: tonify spleen and large intestine meridians, clean liver and small intestine meridians, massage abdomen, coccyx, and push from coccyx upward to Mingmen (GV4) [4]. Add Pishu (BL20) [5], Weishu (BL21) [6] for damp-cold; add Zusanli (ST36) He-Sea Point [7] for spleen deficiency; add cleaning spleen and stomach meridians plus rubbing Zhongwan (CV12) Front-Mu Point of the Stomach [8] for cold attack. Using talcum powder as a medium, lubricate the skin in order to facilitate the implementation of the operation. Main points are pressured by 200 ~ 300 times. 50 ~ 100 times clean spleen and stomach. Massaging abdomen, coccyx and kneading ST36 should be 3 ~ 5 minutes for each place. Once per day, 5 times is one course of treatment.
Results: 39 cases were accounted for 79.5% of recovery, 17.9% of effective, 2.6% of noneffective.
Keywords: massage therapy, Tui Na, infant diarrhea
Writer: Hui Qu
Department of Traditional Chinese medicine [9], Dalian Railway Hospital, Liaoning Province (116001)
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