How to Regulate Spleen and Stomach Deficiency
Modern people often have some minor stomach problems, often feeling a slight pain in the stomach, discomfort with extreme cold or heat, and severe pain on an empty stomach that can be relieved after eating. In addition, excessive fatigue or consumption of cold food can easily trigger the pain. How can we solve these problems? ...
Causes of Spleen and Stomach Weakness:
Spleen and stomach weakness is recorded in ancient medical books. "Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun" states: "If the spleen is strong and the form is excessive, there will be abdominal distension, difficult urination, heavy body, bitter hunger, and leg atrophy... This is the excess of the spleen, so it should be purged. If the spleen is deficient, the limbs will not be used, and there will be diarrhea, indigestion, abdominal distension, and intestinal rumbling. This is the deficiency of the spleen."
In summary, the main causes of spleen and stomach weakness are: dietary imbalance, excessive fatigue, and acute or chronic illnesses. These factors deplete the spleen and stomach, causing insufficient digestion and metabolism, leading to spleen and stomach weakness.
Main Treatments for Spleen and Stomach Weakness:
Liu Junzi Tang - for Spleen Deficiency
Ingredients: Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, Citrus reticulata, Pinellia ternata, Glycyrrhiza uralensis.
For epigastric distension, fullness, pain, nausea, and vomiting, add Saussurea costus, Amomum villosum, Agastache rugosa; if there is diarrhea with cold pain in the abdomen, cold hands and feet, add baked Alisma orientale, dried ginger; or for cough with excessive phlegm, nausea, and dizziness, add bamboo shavings, Aurantium fructus; for long-term cough with excessive thin phlegm, shortness of breath, and weakness, add baked Aster tataricus, Eriobotrya japonica, Platycodon grandiflorus.
Shen Ling Bai Zhu San - for Spleen Deficiency with Dampness
Ingredients: Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Dioscorea opposita, stir-fried Lablab purpureus, lotus seed, coix seed, Amomum villosum, Platycodon grandiflorus.
If there is excessive white discharge, add Atractylodes lancea, Plantago asiatica, Alisma orientale, Bupleurum chinense; if the white discharge persists, add Prunus yedoensis, Euryale ferox, calcined Draconis os; for infantile malnutrition, take this prescription with chicken gizzard, Shenqu, malt, and hawthorn, grind into powder, take 3 grams each time, 3 times a day.
For those with mild stomach distension or unclear spleen deficiency, or those in the recovery period of spleen and stomach weakness, the amount of Chinese medicine can be reduced, and cloves tea can be taken to nourish the stomach. Although cloves tea is not a cure for diseases, it is the best helper for regulating the spleen and stomach.
Conclusion:
Stomach problems are chronic diseases that cannot be cured in a short period of time. We often say that we need to nourish the stomach instead of treating it, which shows that the key to treating diseases lies in "nourishment". It cannot be achieved quickly, but can only be obtained through the improvement of lifestyle habits. We all need a healthy stomach, and these changes in habits are necessary.
