小孩吃泥土,西医称之为“异食癖”,说是因为肚里有虫子之故。许多年来,我们一直视儿童嗜食泥土为病态,但近年来的一些资料表明,事情绝非如此简单。事实上,吃土成瘾者并不仅限于儿童,成人也有吃土族。不仅中国有吃土族,外国也有吃土族。从我手头的资料看,人们吃土,大体有以下几 Children eat mud, Western medicine called “pica”, because there are bugs in the stomach. For many years, we have always regarded the children’s addiction to the soil as a pathological condition, but some sources in recent years show that things are by no means so simple. In fact, people who eat soil addicts are not limited to children, adults also eat soil tribe. Not only do China have an indigenous group but also a foreign group. From the information I see, people eat soil, generally have the following