Question
Is traditional Chinese medicine effective for a 8-year-old girl with precocious puberty?
Answer
If the girl child currently has no discomfort symptoms, there is no need for medication. Provide foods high in calcium in her diet, and encourage her to get plenty of sunlight to increase calcium absorption, and ensure adequate sleep. Maintain a varied diet. When she has an unappetizing appetite, oral medication that regulates the function of the spleen and stomach can be given, such as Dian Gui Pian and Er Ba Pian. Precocious puberty has little impact on growth; pay attention to nutrition, and her food intake should be comparable to that of adults, or even more. Menarche should occur around 12 years old. Wishing the girl child a healthy growth.