Topics include taste preferences, food aversions, the regulation of hunger and satiety, food as comfort and friendship, eating as social ritual, and social norms of blame for food problems.

Conclusions: TCM herbs with activating the spleen can regulate nitric oxide standard in infant anorectic rat's gastric antrum and colon.

Objective: To make clear the connotation of the methods in TCM therapy for anorexia. From the view of hormone in digestive system, discuss the TCM therapeutic mechanism.