Chinese Medicine and newborn baby

If you have read through the first post, you may start to understand the fundamental of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The relationship between human and our environment. Hence, if death is winter, then birth is spring when germination occurs.

It also applies to a newborn baby.

They are in the state of spring. Similar to a sprouted seed. It wants to grow. However, at this time, the earth energy for the baby is relatively weak. The earth energy is responsible for the digestive system and to support the respiration system; therefore, we see a baby and young children may have diarrhea and infection in the respiration system. It is similar to the sprouted seed that has not grown any roots. It is not yet capable to properly absorb nutrition from the soil. It is important to not to feed your child too much food and to feed them food with proper nutrition to support their grow and maintain their healthy digestive system. Weak digestive system can be the root cause of many symptoms, such as asthma, allergy and etc.