Clinical manifestations of anorexia in children with insufficient stomach yin:
Dry mouth with increased thirst but no desire to eat, dry skin, dull hair, constipation, red tongue with little coating, thin pulse.
【Turtle meat and pig stomach soup】
Recipe: 250g turtle meat, 1 pig stomach.
Method: Wash the turtle meat and pig stomach separately, put the turtle meat in the pig stomach, and stew until tender with water.
Efficacy: Nourishing yin, generating fluids, and tonifying the middle.
Usage: Eat the meat and drink the soup. Once a day, continuously for 7 days as one course of treatment.
【Honey-baked lotus root and pear】
Recipe: 350g fresh lotus root, 300g snow pear, 200g white sugar, 10g honey cherries, 10g white alum.
Method: Dissolve white alum in 2000ml of water. Slice the fresh lotus root and soak in the white alum water; peel and remove the core of the snow pear, cut into strips, and also soak in the white alum water. Pour the white alum water into a pot, bring to a boil, add the lotus root slices and pear strips, and cook for 10 minutes. Remove and rinse twice with clean water. Put the lotus root slices in a bowl, place the pear on both sides, add white sugar, seal the bowl tightly with damp cotton paper, steam in a steamer for 3 hours and remove. Filter the original juice from the steamed bowl into the pot and reduce it into a sauce. Flip the lotus root and pear onto a plate, garnish with honey cherries, and pour the reduced sauce over it.
Efficacy: Tonifying spleen and stomach, nourishing yin and blood.
Usage: Consume as desired.
【Stewed meat with sand ginseng】
Recipe: 15g northern sand ginseng, 15g jade bamboo, 15g lily, 15g Chinese yam, 750g lean pork.
Method: Cut the pork into pieces, stew with the above herbs in water until cooked, and season with condiments.
Efficacy: Nourishing yin, generating fluids, and invigorating the stomach to replenish deficiency.
Usage: Drink the soup and eat the lily and Chinese yam.
