What causes spleen deficiency?

Patients with spleen deficiency often have a sallow complexion, are thin, often feel weak, and have poor digestion. Eating even a little bit of cool or too cold food will cause stomach discomfort. Many patients with stomach problems in clinical practice have spleen deficiency to varying degrees. Therefore, when spleen deficiency occurs, you must pay attention to your diet and you can also take some Chinese medicine to regulate your body. Let us now take a detailed look at the causes of spleen deficiency. By understanding the causes, we can do a better job of prevention.

The spleen is called the "foundation of acquired constitution." The common symptoms of spleen deficiency are: bloating, eating less, fatigue, unwillingness to talk, weight loss or obesity and edema, and pale tongue coating. So why are modern people prone to spleen deficiency?

The main causes of spleen deficiency:

1. Anger, worry and thought. It is well known that thinking too much can damage the spleen. Nowadays, social competition is getting more and more intense, and social pressure is also getting greater and greater. People are in a state of anxiety for a long time, which causes the spleen to become worse and worse.

2. A lot of cold food. Nowadays, people take drinks and fruits out of the refrigerator and eat them directly. Sometimes they eat a lot of ice cream just for the sake of momentary pleasure. These behaviors are very harmful to the spleen.

3. Lack of exercise. There are fewer and fewer jobs requiring physical labor in society today, and people are doing more and more mental labor. People lack proper exercise, and some people are even so weak that they cannot even lift a chicken, which causes their spleen to become worse and worse.

4. Irregular eating habits, frequent overeating, eating spicy, greasy food, and eating a lot of junk snacks are all very harmful to the spleen.

5. Excessive weight loss and taking unqualified weight loss pills. Inappropriate weight loss methods can damage the spleen, and a bad spleen can lead to other diseases.

Recommended and unsuitable foods for patients with spleen deficiency (1) Recommended foods: foods that nourish the spleen and replenish qi, wake up the spleen and stimulate appetite and help digestion, such as polished round-grained rice, indica rice, scorched rice crust (guoguo), coix seed, cooked lotus root, chestnut, yam, lentil, cowpea, beef, chicken, rabbit meat, ox tripe, pork tripe, mandarin fish, grapes, red dates, carrots, potatoes, and shiitake mushrooms. (2) Avoid foods that are cold in nature and can easily damage the spleen, such as bitter melon, cucumber, wax gourd, eggplant, water spinach, celery, amaranth, wild rice stem, lettuce, day lily, persimmon, banana, loquat, pear, watermelon, mung bean, tofu, and oats; foods that are thick and greasy and can easily hinder the spleen's function, such as duck meat, pork, turtle meat, oyster meat, milk, sesame, etc.; foods that can easily damage the spleen by promoting qi and eliminating accumulation, such as buckwheat, hawthorn, radish, coriander, etc.