Spleen deficiency shortens life span by half. Check here to see if you have spleen deficiency

What we talk about most in summer is spleen deficiency, but many people do not take spleen deficiency seriously. They often think that spleen deficiency cannot be actually felt and that spleen deficiency will not affect normal life. In fact, this idea is completely wrong. Spleen deficiency can lead to the invasion of many diseases and also affect the body's yang energy, which determines a person's life span. Therefore, spleen deficiency shortens your life. In fact, spleen deficiency can be detected from a person's mouth and other places. As long as you look carefully at these places, you will know whether you have spleen deficiency. Today, let's take a look at why spleen deficiency shortens lifespan and how to identify spleen deficiency.

1. What is spleen deficiency?

Many people don’t even know what spleen deficiency is, so how can they talk about it, let alone know whether they have spleen deficiency. So we must first know what spleen deficiency is? What are the views of Chinese and Western medicine on spleen deficiency.

Spleen deficiency in Traditional Chinese Medicine: In traditional Chinese medicine theory, spleen deficiency refers to a series of physiological phenomena of organ dysfunction caused by spleen deficiency. Spleen deficiency includes abnormal transportation and transformation, which leads to impaired nutrient absorption, failure to distribute water, resulting in dampness and phlegm in the body, and even sepsis. The kidney is said to be the innate foundation, while the spleen is the acquired foundation. It is the source of Qi and blood production, so spleen deficiency should not be underestimated.

Spleen in Western medicine: In Western medicine, the spleen is just an organ in the human body and an immune organ. The spleen accounts for 1/4 of the body's lymphoid tissue and contains a large number of lymphocytes and macrophages, so it is the largest immune organ in the human body and the center of the body's cellular immunity and humoral immunity. This shows the importance of the spleen to the human body.

2. What happens if the spleen is weak or has no spleen?

1. Spleen deficiency can lead to obesity

Nowadays, both men and women are pursuing a good figure and want to be thinner, because being thinner will make them more beautiful and healthier. However, many people will gain weight the more they lose weight, and they gain weight as soon as summer comes, before they even start to lose weight. These are actually caused by spleen deficiency. First of all, spleen deficiency leads to decreased transportation and transformation capabilities, difficulty in metabolism, and excessive accumulation of food in the body, resulting in obesity. Obesity can easily cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, fatty liver, and increase the burden on the heart. People may die prematurely due to diseases caused by obesity.

Secondly, spleen deficiency causes the muscles to become soft and no longer tight, and a "swimming ring" will appear in the lungs. Suddenly finding yourself rubbing your stomach more and more is also a sign of spleen deficiency.

2. Spleen deficiency makes you a "yellow-faced woman"

Spleen deficiency not only leads to obesity, but also causes many people to be "weak as a kite". These people often cannot digest food due to spleen deficiency, resulting in physical weakness, lack of energy, anemia, and sallow or pale complexion. Often, this type of people cannot bear weight, have poor resistance, and die from other diseases.

3. Spleen deficiency causes fear of both cold and heat

In traditional Chinese medicine, deficiency is divided into yang deficiency and yin deficiency. Yang deficiency causes fear of cold, while yin deficiency causes fear of heat. Spleen deficiency can lead to deficiency of both Qi and Yin, resulting in hot hands and feet and a preference for cold even when sick in winter. It is very easy to get heatstroke in the summer, and people are in a state of low blood pressure all year round, feeling lack of energy and confusion every day.

4. Spleen deficiency, diarrhea, heavy menstruation

Diarrhea is the most typical symptom of spleen deficiency, which is mainly caused by spleen yang deficiency, resulting in the inability to transport and transform food, the invasion of moisture, and loose stools. The spleen is the source of Qi and blood production. If the spleen is weak, it cannot regulate blood, causing blood to flow abnormally through blood vessels, resulting in chronic bleeding, excessive menstrual flow and other symptoms of spleen deficiency.

5. What would happen if you didn’t have a spleen?

The spleen is the largest immune system organ, but it is very delicate and easily damaged. Many diseases and injuries often lead to the spleen being removed. Most people think that the spleen is not a major organ in the human body and will not have much impact, but its existence must be reasonable. If you lose the spleen, it will inevitably lead to many immune problems. The immune system will certainly not return to its original level, people will become more susceptible to illness, cancer cells will easily invade, and most people who lose their spleen will die early.

3. Where to see spleen deficiency

In traditional Chinese medicine theory, the spleen is responsible for transporting and transforming food and water, and its orifice is the mouth, and its beauty is in the four white parts of the lips. Therefore, to see whether the spleen is weak or not, you should pay more attention to the mouth and oral cavity.

1. Judging spleen deficiency from the mouth

The spleen opens up at the mouth, so a person's appetite is closely related to the spleen. In addition, in traditional Chinese medicine theory, the functions of the mouth and spleen are unified and coordinated. Therefore, the function of the spleen can be reflected from the mouth. A strong temper leads to a strong appetite and a desire to eat. It is mentioned in Lingshu Pulse Measurement that spleen qi is connected to the mouth, and if the spleen is harmonious, the mouth can taste the five grains. Therefore, if the spleen is weak, there will be no taste in the mouth; if the spleen is hot, there will be a sweet taste in the mouth; and if the spleen is out of balance, there will be a greasy taste in the mouth. Bitter taste in the mouth, etc. Only when your spleen is strong enough can you know how to distinguish the flavors of the five grains.

Therefore, whether the spleen is weak or not can be distinguished from the mouth. If there is a bad smell in the mouth, it is mostly caused by spleen disorder.

2. Observe the spleen from the white spots on the lips

The spleen's beauty is in the four white spots on the lips. First of all, we need to know where the four white spots are. The "four" in "唇四白" does not refer to a number, but to the four directions. White, because the skin around the normal mouth is white. So the white parts of the lips refer to the skin around the mouth.

a. Lip swelling

In "Su Wen". "The Book of the Five Internal Organs" records: "The spleen is the organ that combines with the flesh, and it nourishes the lips." If there is fire in the stomach, it will go up to the lips. If there is fire in the stomach, the spleen will be burned. Therefore, swollen lips also indicate problems with the spleen and stomach.

b. Sores

The spleen loses its function of transporting and transforming, resulting in poor appetite, dampness blocking the middle burner, and causing ulcers at the corners of the mouth. This is a typical manifestation of spleen deficiency and dampness. Recurrent sores at the corners of the mouth are caused by spleen and stomach yin deficiency, and the sores often occur on the lips, tongue, sides of the mouth and palate.

c. Cheilitis

Lips are always peeling and cracked. This is due to the accumulation of heat in the spleen and stomach, and the invasion of wind evil from outside. This is why our lips are always dry and painful in autumn.

d. Dull lips

If one has a good temper, his lips will be rosy, shiny and elastic. When the lips are pale and dull, it indicates spleen deficiency and qi deficiency.

e. Black around the mouth

The four white spots on the lips, that is, the edges of the mouth, and the black edges of the lips are typical manifestations of spleen deficiency and dampness. Spleen deficiency leads to physical fatigue and severe invasion of dampness.

3. Other aspects of spleen deficiency

a. Vomiting

Spleen deficiency leads to poor appetite, difficulty in digesting food, abdominal distension, and upward flow of stomach gas, leading to vomiting. Therefore, vomiting occurs due to a slight lack of attention to diet and frequent indigestion is mostly caused by spleen deficiency.

b. Excessive drooling

We often find that children drool, but not all children have this symptom. This is due to insufficient spleen function, which is unable to distribute body fluids well, causing saliva to flow out. So if you find that your child is drooling frequently and it is not during the teething period, it may be caused by spleen deficiency or insufficient temper.

c. Fat tongue

A fat tongue is a typical manifestation of a weak spleen and stomach in summer, which leads to excessive moisture in the body. This situation is mostly caused by diet, which is mainly too cold, too mixed and unhealthy. Of course, it is also caused by the living environment being too humid.

Conclusion: In summer, we talk about weak spleen and stomach every day, but we don’t know what kind of damage it can cause to the spleen and stomach. From the above we know that although spleen deficiency itself will not cause serious illness in our body, weak spleen and stomach will lead to weak immunity and cause the invasion of other diseases, thus shortening our lifespan. There are many manifestations of spleen deficiency in our mouth. If we want to know whether we have spleen deficiency or not, we just need to look at our mouth in the mirror to understand the state of our spleen.