We often hear people say that someone has a bad stomach and weak spleen and stomach, so how do we know whether his spleen and stomach are healthy and from which parts can we see it? How to regulate the spleen and stomach? What are the symptoms of spleen deficiency? Let's take a look.
There are many patients with stomach diseases in China, which is a veritable "big country with stomach diseases". For Chinese medicine, when it comes to stomach, it means spleen. Weak spleen and stomach will cause many diseases.
Health care must first raise the spleen and stomach. A strong stomach is strong, while a weak stomach is weak. If longevity is compared to building a house, protecting the spleen and stomach is to lay a foundation, and the foundation is not firm. Eating more nutrients and health products won't help much.
Check whether your spleen and stomach are healthy.
People with poor spleen and stomach can be seen from their appearance. I often meet such patients in clinic.
Some are pale and their lips are dull; Some are too thin, as if a gust of wind can blow down; Some are fat and look huge, but they are not strong at all; Others are weak and depressed, young but immature. ...
It is usually caused by the injury of their spleen and stomach function. Therefore, if you want to know whether your spleen and stomach are good or not, you can generally look at the following places.
1, oral
Generally speaking, people with good spleen and stomach have ruddy lips, moderate dryness and wetness, lubrication and luster; Lips with bad spleen and stomach are pale and bloodless, very dry and easy to burst and crack. Symptoms such as bad breath and swollen gums are related to insufficient digestive ability of Dachuan's spleen and stomach. In addition, drooling during sleep is also a sign of no temper.
2. Nose
The meridians of the spleen and stomach are connected with the nose. Dry nasal cavity, olfactory failure, runny nose and nosebleed are mostly caused by weakness of spleen and stomach. People with red noses tend to have stomach heat; The swollen nose with abdominal pain also indicates that the spleen and stomach function is not good.
3. Eyes
Poor spleen and stomach can easily lead to deficiency of qi and blood, which in turn affects the liver, which begins to understand the eyes, so the eyes are easy to get tired and can't see clearly. In addition, the spleen has a great relationship with the absorption of body fluids. If the eyes are red and swollen and the face is swollen, there may be something wrong with the spleen.
4. Ears
If the spleen and stomach are weak, it will lead to kidney deficiency, which will generally turn into tinnitus or even deafness.
In addition, many people's spleen and stomach are not good because of overwork or emotion. Especially in spring, people tend to be irritable because of a strong liver fire. People with spleen and stomach disorders often feel weak, cold hands and feet, and sometimes have diarrhea in spring.
There is something wrong with the spleen and stomach, which is likely to implicate the five internal organs. There is a saying in Chinese medicine, "nourishing the spleen and stomach means nourishing vitality, and nourishing vitality means nourishing life." The health of the spleen and stomach is an important factor to determine the length of life.
1, heart and spleen
Heart and spleen are like a pair of mother and son. Heart disease should be treated from spleen and stomach. Spleen is responsible for coordinating human qi and blood and supporting the heart. Once there is something wrong with the spleen, it will lead to the imbalance of qi and blood and cause heart disease.
2. Liver and spleen
Interaction between liver and spleen and stomach. Patients often tell me that I still feel hungry after eating, but my stomach is full and taking gastrointestinal medicine doesn't work. In fact, this is often related to excessive work pressure or bad mood leading to liver depression and qi stagnation. To solve the problem of spleen and stomach, we must first nourish the liver. Conversely, the spleen and stomach will also affect the liver. For example, the root of fatty liver is that the spleen and stomach can't digest food well, which makes it difficult to treat garbage and accumulate in the liver, thus affecting the blood supply of the liver and other functions.
3. Lung and spleen
Spleen and stomach weakness first affects the lungs. The lung is like a monarch who is a prime minister and specializes in assisting the heart. The lungs help the heart manage the whole body by managing the qi in the body. However, the rise and fall of lung qi depends on the strength of spleen and stomach. People with weak spleen and stomach often lead to respiratory diseases such as lung qi deficiency and easy to catch a cold.
4. Kidney and spleen
Spleen deficiency is often accompanied by kidney deficiency. People are full of energy and kidney qi. The strength of kidney essence is also related to whether people's spleen and stomach are healthy and whether they can provide sufficient nutrition to nourish the kidneys. Long-term spleen deficiency can lead to kidney deficiency, which is characterized by restless mind, easy night sweats, or fear of cold, cold hands and feet.
Stomach disease is related to people's uncontrolled diet in Dachuan, and spleen disease is related to people's overwork. Although the causes of spleen and stomach diseases are different, they must be raised together.
Spleen and stomach have four fears
One is afraid of life, the other is afraid of cold, the third is afraid of support, and the fourth is afraid of gas. Cold food, such as all kinds of cold drinks, raw vegetables, fruits, etc., will enter the body with cold air, which is most likely to hurt the spleen and stomach. In addition, the spleen and stomach are most afraid of support, and a hungry meal is the most harmful to it.
Move your toes and nourish your spleen and stomach.
I often let patients with poor spleen and stomach move their toes more, which is equivalent to massaging the spleen and stomach. You can scratch the ground and soles with your toes at work for 5 minutes at a time. Or put some oval pebbles of moderate size in the footbath and grab stones with your toes while soaking your feet.
Spleen and stomach like fine food.
Spleen and stomach like grandma like finely divided food. Studies abroad have proved that if you can chew every bite of food repeatedly for decades, your health will be significantly better than that of your peers.
Spring, summer, autumn and winter have their own feeding methods.
In spring, eat less acidic food and more sweet food, such as yam, banana and jujube, to nourish the spleen. In summer, the humidity is heavier, so eat more beans to strengthen the spleen and promote dampness, and at the same time be less wet and less greedy. Drink more porridge from beginning of autumn, porridge is the most spleen-strengthening. Cold winter is easy to stimulate the increase of gastric acid secretion. Usually, it is best to go to bed early and get up late, get more sunshine and keep warm. This is the best way to protect the spleen and stomach.
Some drugs hurt the spleen and stomach the most.
Many western medicines will stimulate the stomach, such as ferrous sulfate and aminophylline, which will make people sick and vomit; Guanethidine and propranolol can cause diarrhea; Aspirin, sodium salicylate and indomethacin can induce gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer and lead to bleeding. Some bitter and cold Chinese medicines, such as Radix Isatidis and Liushen Pills, are not suitable for people with deficiency-cold constitution and frequent diarrhea to take for a long time.
Laughter is the best gift for the spleen and stomach
When people are angry, resentful or anxious, their stomachs are as congested and red as their faces. When people are sad, depressed or depressed, their stomachs become pale, their gastric juice secretion is insufficient, and their activities are also reduced. Chinese medicine also believes that bad emotions will affect the regulatory function of the liver, and then affect the spleen and stomach. It can be seen that learning to laugh is the best gift for the spleen and stomach.
Five syndromes of spleen deficiency
Spleen deficiency is a term of traditional Chinese medicine. Spleen is an important organ of human body, which can digest diet and transport the essence of diet to the whole body. If spleen deficiency can cause a series of problems, what are the symptoms of spleen deficiency? Below we will introduce five symptoms of spleen deficiency for everyone.
Symptom 1: Loss of appetite.
Because in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, moisture enters the body and is most likely to hurt the spleen. The main function of the spleen is to digest and absorb various foods and liquids ingested in the body, and transform these substances into nutrients that can be used by the human body to provide new energy for human metabolism.
In the hot and humid environment in summer, most people's appetite and digestive function will decline. But some people are very hungry, but they feel full after eating, which is also a sign of strong stomach and weak spleen.
Symptom 2: Changes of tongue coating.
The change of tongue is the external manifestation of spleen. The surface of a healthy tongue should be red and look moist. There is a layer of tongue coating on the surface of the tongue, which is very light and clean. If there are obvious tooth marks on the edge of the tongue, it means that there is something wrong with the body function.
If the tongue coating is white and thick, it looks smooth, indicating that there is cold in the body; If the tongue coating is rough or thick and yellow and greasy, it means that there is damp heat in the body; If the tongue is red without coating, it means that the body is too hot to hurt the yin. At the same time, in summer, people with spleen deficiency and dampness often feel sticky in their mouths and their faces are dull and yellow.
Symptom 3: Heavy moisture.
People with heavy moisture may also gain significant weight in a short time, and in severe cases, problems such as edema of lower limbs may occur.
90% of obese people are physically weak. Physical weakness is caused by the weakening of spleen and stomach function. Physical weakness will slow down metabolism and weaken the vitality of the body, thus reducing the ability to consume nutrition. If nutrients cannot be consumed, they will accumulate in the body and form obesity.
Symptom 4: It is uncomfortable to get up early.
Get up in the morning, if you feel chest tightness, shortness of breath, dizziness and brain swelling, it means that our spleen and stomach function is weak.
Chinese medicine believes that when spleen deficiency occurs, lung qi will fail first. In other words, the functions of the spleen and the lungs are interactive. When spleen deficiency reaches a certain level, it is easy to have lung deficiency, such as shortness of breath, and shortness of breath when moving.
Symptom 5: Abnormal defecation.
If the stool is soft and sticky, it is a symptom of spleen dampness, indicating abnormal digestive function.
Conclusion: Bad spleen and stomach is very harmful. Therefore, all of us must be careful at ordinary times. If you want to know whether your spleen and stomach are good or not, you can have a look through the method I introduced to you above. If your appetite suddenly drops, or you are always uncomfortable in the morning, be careful.