Abstract:

The spleen-stomach theory in children has been continuously improved by generations of doctors. The characteristics of spleen and stomach in children have been elaborated from physiological and pathological aspects, and a systematic theory has been formed, which plays an important role in guiding the pediatric clinical practice. Children usually have congenital insufficiency of spleen function, and parents' wrong ways of feeding and care will aggravate the spleen and stomach disorders, which leads to the occurrence of diseases related to spleen and stomach weakness. The weakness of stomach and spleen as well as the loss of normal spleen function is closely related to the pediatric functional gastrointestinal diseases. The secretion disorder of gastrointestinal hormones is one of the pathophysiological basis of functional gastrointestinal diseases. Therefore, it not only provides more modern medical evidence for spleen-stomach theory in children but also is of great significance for broadening the treatment thoughts for childhood diseases to study the childhood diseases related to spleen and stomach weakness based on gastrointestinal hormone secretion and to understand the correlation between spleen-stomach theory and gastrointestinal hormones

Key words:

Functional gastrointestinal diseases, Spleen-stomach theory in children, Gastrointestinal hormones, Weakness of spleen and stomach