Symptoms and treatments of food poisoning

The phenomenon of food poisoning usually occurs in children because they do not know how to control their food intake. Especially when they come across their favorite food, they will eat uncontrollably, causing their stomach to be unable to digest it. Therefore, you must control your food intake, because if you have serious food indigestion, it will cause great harm to your body. So what are the symptoms of food indigestion?

Symptoms of food poisoning include sour and smelly vomiting, loss of appetite, foul breath, sour and smelly burping, abdominal distension or pain, feeling comfortable in the stomach after vomiting, restless sleep at night, dry stool, or sour and smelly diarrhea, thick and greasy tongue coating, and slippery pulse.

Spleen deficiency and food damage usually cause insufficient Qi in the middle body, and it is difficult to digest food. If you don't know how to control yourself, you will damage your food and feel uncomfortable and full in the three abdomen, food tastes tasteless, loss of appetite, nausea, fatigue in the limbs, shortness of breath, dizziness, or abdominal pain and diarrhea, weak or slippery pulses, and a pale tongue with a thin and greasy coating. The treatment is to strengthen the spleen and aid digestion. The medicinal ingredients used are Liujunzi Decoction and Jiawei Baohe Pills with modifications: Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, Tangerine peel, Costus root, Shenqu, Radish seed, Pinellia ternata, Malt, and Amomum villosum. If the middle qi is cold, add roasted ginger and cinnamon; if the moisture is too heavy, add coix seed and perilla; if there is pain in the three abdominal parts, add chicken gizzard lining and hawthorn; if there is abdominal pain and diarrhea, add kudzu root, oriental water plantain, and corydalis.

Stopping eating will hurt the stomach. Food is tangible and has substance. If you eat it at irregular times and in excessive amounts, and it is not digested, it will easily hurt the stomach. Symptoms include abdominal distension and pain, nausea and vomiting, constipation, loss of appetite, refusal to press on abdominal pain, fatigue or irritability. The pulse is stringy and slippery, and the tongue coating is thin and greasy or thick and greasy yellow. The treatment is to help digestion and relieve stagnation. The medicinal materials used are Zhishi Daozhi Pills, Pingwei Powder, and Baohe Pills with modifications. Medicinal ingredients include bitter orange immature fruit, rhubarb, betel nut, chicken gizzard lining, radish seed, Shenqu, hawthorn, green tangerine peel, dried orange peel, turmeric, angelica, trillium, and curcuma.

External factors may cause harm to the spleen and stomach if you are not careful enough to eat during festivals, and if you are not hungry or full at the right times, or eat more meat and less vegetables, or drink excessively. Symptoms include body pain, aversion to cold, headache, nasal congestion, frequent belching, abdominal distension and loss of appetite, constipation, and chest congestion. This requires digestion and elimination of evil, and treatment of both internal and external factors. The prescription uses Xiao Chaihu Decoction, Sangju Yin, Xiangsha Yangwei Decoction, and Baohe Pills with modifications. Medicinal herbs include bupleurum, mulberry leaves, burdock seeds, saposhnikovia divaricata, chrysanthemum, amomum villosum, pinellia, forsythia, angelica, immature bitter orange, chicken gizzard lining, fermented black beans, Shenqu, and asarum.

Although the symptom of food poisoning is real, you should not take laxatives rashly. Instead, you should relieve the Qi and help digestion. For the deficiency symptom of food poisoning, spleen deficiency is the root cause and food accumulation is the symptom. You can only supplement and help digestion at the same time. You cannot just help digestion without supplementing, which violates the "deficiency-deficiency taboo". To digest food, one should first unblock the Qi flow, and green tangerine peel, Magnolia bark, and Areca nut are often used; to digest food, one must ferment it thoroughly, and hawthorn, Shenqu, malt, and radish seeds are often used; to replenish the deficiency, one should use a balanced tonic, and commonly use Pseudostellaria baicalensis, Poria cocos, Chinese yam, Atractylodes macrocephala, Coix seed, Phaseolus odoratus, and Codonopsis pilosula.