Essentials for diagnosis 
(1) Abnormal diet, dry or watery stool, or marked symptoms of splenogastric dysfunction like abdominal distension, etc..

(2) The patients have emaciation (with the body weight being 15% or more below the normal value), lustreless complexion, thin-dried and withered hair, or extreme emaciation in severe cases.

(3) The complications include listlessness, susceptibility to loss of temper, dysphoria, irascibility, or liability to rubbing eyebrows and cleaning eyes, or finger-sucking habit, odontoprisis, etc..

(4) The patients have the history of improper feeding, improper nursing after recovery, and chronic emaciation.

(5) For the patients with anemia, hemoglobin count and red cell count are reduced. Edema occurs on lower limbs. For the patients with nutritional edema, serum total protein is often below 45 g/L and serum albumin below 20 g/L.

In TCM, a disease or a symptom might be caused by one pathogenic factor, even two or three pathogenic factors. When diagnosing a disease or a symptom, TCM doctors must follow the principle of "Syndrome Dfferentiation", and then "Suit the Remedy to the Case". In order to gain a more definite and valuable diagnosis, it's important and necessary for the doctor to learn the detailed health information of the patient, including his/her disease duration, age, sex, height, weight, family history, urine, stool, diet, sleep, sweat, energy, mood (emotion), as well as the tongue conditions and the palm conditions, etc. If you would want our expert to create a TCM diagnosis, you're welcome to contact us.