Can children eat Pseudostellaria heterophylla?

The Chinese culture of our country is broad and profound. Many things require us to study them carefully in order to understand the principles behind them. The same is true for our bodies. Many people think that if they are sick, they just need to take medicine. However, if you don't just take medicine blindly, you should know what is wrong with your body so that you can take the right medicine. Otherwise, taking medicine blindly will only hurt yourself. Most of us don’t really understand the medicinal properties of many Chinese medicines. We just hear what others say, so we don’t know whether many of the claims are true or false.

Just like the ones we usually come into contact with, Pseudostellaria heterophylla is a kind of medicinal material that can be seen in life, whether in supermarkets or hospitals. This medicinal material is often sold as a health-care drug. Some children are born with weak bodies, and we want to replenish their bodies by giving them Pseudostellaria baicalensis. In fact, this is not the right thing to do.

The "tonification" in traditional Chinese medicine is aimed at "deficiency". The saying "replenish the deficiency" means that people who are "deficient" need to be "replenished". When a child is born, his organs are not yet fully developed, their functions are not yet complete, and his spleen and stomach functions are also weak. But they are like the rising sun, constantly growing and developing, full of vitality. Children's growth and development have their own development laws and cannot be changed artificially and arbitrarily. A healthy child has normal organ functions and growth and development and does not need any supplements. Because they don't exist at all.

【Function and indications】

Nourish the lungs and strengthen the body. Treats lung deficiency cough, spleen deficiency anorexia, palpitations, spontaneous sweating, and mental fatigue.

It replenishes Qi and strengthens the spleen, produces body fluid and moistens the lungs. It is used for spleen deficiency, weakness after illness, qi and yin deficiency, spontaneous sweating, thirst, and dry cough.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Greatly replenishes vital energy."

② "New Materia Medica": "It can treat qi deficiency and lung dryness, nourish the spleen and earth, eliminate edema, resolve phlegm and quench thirst."

③ "New Reference for Medicinal Pieces": "Replenishes the vital energy of the spleen and lungs, stops sweating and produces body fluid, and calms palpitations."

④ "Jiangsu Plant Medicine Records": "It can treat weak stomach, indigestion, and neurasthenia."

⑤ "Chinese Materia Medica": "It is used to treat cough due to lung deficiency and diarrhea due to spleen deficiency."

⑥ "Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": "It replenishes qi and blood, strengthens the spleen and produces body fluid. It can treat physical weakness after illness, cough due to lung deficiency, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, sweating in children, palpitations, dry mouth, and loss of appetite."

After reading the above analysis, do parents have some understanding of this? In fact, if a child is in poor health, it can be adjusted through acquired exercise and nutritional food. There is no need to take any Chinese medicine or health products to supplement the body. Doing so will make it more likely for children to have physical problems. It is a parent's nature to care for their children, but this should also be done with scientific methods.