Objective：To observe the clinicaleffect of three-character classic school Tuina for anorexia in children of type of qideficiency of spleen and stom ach or type of dysfunction of spleen in transportation.Methods：Selected 136 cases of children with anorexia who met the test criteria and randomly divided theminto the control group and the Tuina group，68 cases in each group.The control group received oral liquid of lysine-inositol-vitamin B12，while the Tuina group was given the therapy of three-character classic school Tuina.Observe the appetite，food consumption，Chinese medicine symptoms and signs of children before and after treatment，and evaluated the clinical effect and improvements of Chinese medicine syndromes.Two weeks after the treatment，a follow-up was given to those whose assessment of curative effect were effective and then the recurrence of anorexia was evaluated.Results：The total effective rate was 88.24%in the Tuina group and 52.94% in the control group，difference being significant( P ＜0.01).Before treatment，there was no significantdifferences being found in the comparisons of scores of appetite and food consumption as wellas the total scores of Chinese medicine syndromes between the two groups( P ＞ 0.05).After treatment，scores of appetite and food consumption as wellas the total scores of Chinese medicine syndromes in the two groups were significantly decreased( P ＜0.01).The food consumption score and the total score of syndromes in the Tuina group were lower than those in the controlgroup( P ＜0.01).The recurrence rate was 30.36%in the Tuina group and 27.78%in the controlgroup，difference being insignificant( P ＞0.05).Conclusion：The therapy of three-character classic school Tuina for anorexia in children of type of qideficiency of spleen and stom ach or type of dysfunction of sp leen in transportation has a better curative effect than routine western medicine.