Clinical presentation of spleen deficiency phlegm-damp type sequelae after stroke:
Limb weakness, delayed sensation, loss of appetite, fatigue, obesity, yellowish complexion, pale lips, speech difficulties, swollen and large tongue with tooth marks, pale and greasy tongue coating, thin and slippery pulse.
【Green Fruit Platinum Paste】
Ingredients: 500g fresh green fruit, 250g curcuma, 100g alum powder, 100g white silkworm, appropriate amount of honey.
Preparation: Smash the green fruit, grind the white silkworm into powder. First, put the green fruit and curcuma in a pot, add 1000ml of water, boil for 1 hour, filter out the liquid, then add 500ml of water and boil again. Mix the two liquid solutions, simmer on low heat until it concentrates to 500ml, then add alum powder, silkworm powder, and honey to make a paste.
Efficacy: Extinguish wind, relieve spasm, dissolve phlegm, and remove obstruction.
Usage: Take 10ml each in the morning and evening, and swallow with boiling water.
【Ginseng and Allium White Porridge】
Ingredients: 10g ginseng, 12g allium white, 1 egg (yolk removed), 50g millet.
Preparation: First, smash the ginseng and simmer in water on low heat, then add millet to cook porridge. When the porridge is cooked, add egg white and allium white and cook until done.
Efficacy: Tonify qi, harmonize the middle, disperse phlegm, and invigorate yang.
Usage: Can be taken as breakfast and dinner.
【Coix Seed and Radish Porridge】
Ingredients: 30g coix seed, 30g white kidney bean, 30g fresh Chinese yam, 60g white radish, 60g glutinous rice.
Preparation: Peel and cut the Chinese yam into pieces, cut the white radish into pieces, cook the porridge with coix seed, white kidney bean, glutinous rice, and appropriate amount of water. After 10 minutes, add Chinese yam and white radish, and simmer until the porridge thickens.
Efficacy: Tonify spleen and eliminate dampness.
Usage: Take 1 dose daily, continuously for 7-10 days.
【Gastrodia Elata Stewed Pig Brain】
Ingredients: 10g gastrodia elata, 1 pig brain.
Preparation: Put gastrodia elata and pig brain in a clay pot, add appropriate amount of water, stew until cooked.
Efficacy: Dispel wind, open the orifices, nourish and promote blood circulation.
Usage: The above is one dose, taken once daily or every other day.
