Symptoms of spleen deficiency and heat generation

There are many patients with weak spleen and stomach in our lives. Most patients with weak spleen and stomach should eat light and warm food. If they eat spicy food, it will cause the workload of the stomach, thus causing a series of stomach diseases. If we do not eat some warm food, it will make us very prone to diarrhea. So what are the symptoms of spleen deficiency and heat generation?

Knowledge about spleen deficiency

What to eat for spleen deficiency

As the saying goes, "Food supplements are worse than medicine supplements." For normal healthy people, food supplements always come first.

But for the elderly, the sick, or the weak, it is often the case that "food supplements are not as good as medicine supplements", or in other words, "medicine supplements are better than food supplements", because the power of medicine to nourish the spleen is stronger than that of food to nourish the spleen.

Spleen-tonifying medicines are divided into Chinese herbal medicines and Chinese patent medicines. Commonly used Chinese herbal medicines include Codonopsis pilosula, Pseudostellaria pseudoginseng, ginseng, Astragalus membranaceus, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, Dioscorea opposita, Euryale ferox, lotus seed, Polygonatum sibiricum, and roasted licorice.

Diet nourishes the spleen

Using diet to maintain the foundation of our acquired constitution - the spleen and stomach is the most important and primary thing. This includes two aspects: one is the method of nourishing the spleen through diet, and the other is to eat spleen-nourishing foods regularly.

Using foods that nourish the spleen is the fundamental method to nourish the acquired constitution. There are many spleen-nourishing foods that people should eat throughout their lives to keep their spleen and stomach healthy.

For patients and the elderly who usually have weak spleen and stomach, or poor gastrointestinal function, with symptoms such as sallow complexion, mental fatigue, physical tiredness, poor appetite, or bloating after eating, loose stools, or undigested food, cold limbs, shortness of breath and fear of cold, or women with weak body and leucorrhea, pale tongue with teeth marks on the edges, and thin and weak pulse, it is more beneficial to eat spleen-nourishing foods regularly.

There are many famous sayings and quotes handed down from generation to generation regarding the methods of nourishing the spleen through diet. As Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty said: "Those who are good at health preservation do not eat too much and do not drink too much." "Dong Wei Jing" says: "Being too hungry will damage the spleen, and being too full will damage the qi." Zou Xuan of the Yuan Dynasty wrote in his book "New Book on Longevity and Elderly Care": "For the elderly, food should generally be warm, hot, cooked and soft, and should not be sticky, hard, raw or cold.

Eat one bite at night and you will live to be ninety-nine. "Hu Wenhuan of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "Essentials of Health Preservation": "Drinking a hectoliter of wine is not as good as eating a bowl of porridge. "In Lao Lao Heng Yan written by Cao Tingdong of the Qing Dynasty: "In general, less food is better, as the spleen is easy to grind and transform into semen. Otherwise, even very nutritious food will cause harm if eaten too much. Therefore, eat less every day to calm the spleen."

How to treat spleen deficiency

Spleen deficiency in TCM

Spleen deficiency in TCM refers to the disease caused by spleen weakness as TCM calls it. Although the symptoms are rather complicated, they mainly include vomiting, diarrhea, edema, bleeding, amenorrhea, leucorrhea, cold limbs, and excessive salivation in children. The spleen is moist earth, it likes dryness and hates dampness. Excessive dampness can lead to spleen deficiency, and spleen deficiency can also cause dampness, and the two are often cause and effect of each other. Due to spleen deficiency and dysfunction, water and dampness retain, which is mostly a syndrome of deficiency of the root and excess of the superficial symptoms. For those who are mainly suffering from deficiency, the treatment should focus on strengthening the spleen and assist in removing dampness; for those who are mainly suffering from excess, the treatment should focus on removing dampness and assist in regulating the spleen.

Spleen deficiency vomiting

The patient may vomit easily if he is not careful with his diet. The vomiting occurs intermittently, and he has poor appetite, difficulty digesting food, abdominal distension, bland mouth but no thirst, pale face, fatigue, pale tongue, thin white fur, and weak pulse.

Spleen deficiency edema

The body is swollen, especially below the waist, which is sunken and difficult to recover when pressed. There is abdominal distension, decreased appetite, sallow complexion, fatigue, cold limbs, scanty urination, pale tongue, white and slippery tongue coating, and a deep and slow pulse.

Spleen deficiency bleeding

The blood in the stool is dark purple, or even black, or there is blood in the urine, hematemesis, nosebleed and purple spots, fatigue, shortness of breath and low voice, pale face, dizziness, pale tongue, thin white fur, and weak pulse. The vaginal discharge is continuous, large in amount, light yellow or white like saliva, odorless, and the complexion is pale yellow, the mind is tired, there is no appetite, back pain and abdominal distension, or swelling of the lower limbs, loose stools, etc. Amenorrhea is often accompanied by symptoms such as loss of appetite, fullness in the abdomen, and loose stools. The pathogenesis and pathology are mostly due to weak spleen and stomach, dysfunction of healthy function, and damage by diet. The diet decreases day by day, resulting in insufficient source of biochemical metabolism, and no blood reaches the Chong, Ren and uterus, causing amenorrhea.