What are the symptoms of deficiency of both heart and spleen?

Nowadays, with the development of society, people are under increasing pressure. Most people have mild or severe deficiency of both heart and spleen. Such patients usually have symptoms such as difficulty falling asleep, lack of energy, and weak consciousness. Patients can be treated with longan and red dates. Long-term persistence will have significant effects, and people should do a good job of prevention in advance to better ensure their health.

1. Symptoms of Heart and Spleen Deficiency

The many discomforts of patients with deficiency of both heart and spleen are ultimately caused by deficiency of heart yang. "The heart contains the spirit" and has the function of managing a person's spirit, consciousness, thinking, emotions, etc. If the heart yang is weak, it cannot protect the heart qi, and the heart qi will float outside without being nourished. At the same time, the spleen and stomach are the foundation of acquired constitution, which can transform the food we eat into Qi and blood. If the spleen and stomach are weak and cold, the production of Qi and blood will be insufficient, which will aggravate the loss of heart yang and cause a series of mental symptoms. Therefore, during treatment, one should "treat the symptoms first", focus on calming the mind and slightly coordinate with the method of warming the middle and replenishing Qi. After the symptoms improve, gradually increase the intensity of warming and nourishing the heart and spleen.

2. Treatment Methods

Longan and Red Date Drink

Ingredients: 15 grams of longan pulp, two or three slices of ginger, 5 red dates (pitted), and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Effect: Warming the middle and replenishing Qi, nourishing blood and calming the mind

Cooking method: Wash everything and cut the ginger into shreds. Put longan meat, shredded ginger and red dates into the pot, add appropriate amount of water and rock sugar, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and continue simmering for about 30 minutes.

Mainly take a balanced diet to nourish the body and massage acupoints

3. Daily Prevention

Traditional Chinese medicine often says, "If the spleen and stomach are weak, a hundred diseases will arise." Most patients who are prone to anxiety and panic have poor gastrointestinal function, do not want to eat, and have loose stools. Therefore, they need to avoid eating raw, cold, and fresh food. They can eat more relatively mild spleen-strengthening and qi-invigorating foods such as crucian carp, eel, chicken, beef, yam, shiitake mushrooms, pumpkin, white lentils, tangerine peel, ginger, etc. If you sweat a lot normally or wake up in the night sweating profusely, you can cook some ginger and red dates porridge and drink it while it's warm. This can replenish the energy lost with the sweat. You can massage the Neiguan and Shenmen points to calm your mind and resolve your thoughts.

Specific operation: After locating the acupoint, use the tip of your right thumb, or bend your index finger and use the joint of your index finger to massage the acupoint for 5-10 minutes each. During an acute attack, you can massage the two points for a long time.

Neiguan Point: Located on the palm side of the forearm, two inches above the transverse wrist crease.

Shenmen Point: Located on the wrist, at the ulnar end of the palmar wrist line, in the radial depression of the ulnar flexor carpi tendon.