What Is Speleotherapy?

The spleen and stomach are weak, which is the terminology of traditional Chinese medicine. The meaning of weak spleen and stomach is more general, including TCM syndromes such as deficiency of spleen qi, deficiency of spleen and yang, spleen incoordination blood, depression of gas, deficiency of stomach yang, deficiency of stomach qi, deficiency of stomach yin and deficiency of spleen and stomach. The deficiency of spleen qi is the basic type of weak spleen and stomach, and the deficiency of spleen qi is the syndrome manifested by lack of spleen and loss of health. Mostly due to a lack of diet, overwork, long-term illness and loss of temper. The term "Deficiency of Spleen Qi" comes from the "Inner Classics", for example, the article "Lingshu · Tiannian" has a discussion of "Seventy years old, Deficiency of Spleen Qi, and dry skin". Later generations of doctors conducted in-depth research and exertion of spleen-qi deficiency syndrome, and pointed out that the spleen main movement was the source of qi and blood biochemistry, and it was the foundation of the day after tomorrow. If the innate endowment is insufficient, or the body has a weak spleen and stomach; , Vital energy is not restored, loss of recuperation, can make the spleen deficiency, transport dysfunction, leading to lack of qi and blood biochemistry, the formation of spleen deficiency syndrome.

Basic Information

Visiting department: Traditional Chinese Medicine
Multiple groups: Inadequate endowment, old age, physical failure, and early recovery from serious illness

Common locations: Spleen and stomach
Common causes: Mostly due to inadequate diet, overwork, and long-term illness and loss of temper
Common symptoms: Long course of disease, light and heavy when diarrhea, and sometimes stop when onset, thin stool

Causes of Spleen and Stomach Weakness

Insufficient diet, excessive fatigue, long-term worries, insufficient endowment, old age, physical failure, early recovery from serious illness, and carelessness of care can all lead to weak spleen and stomach. "Essays on the Sources of the Diseases · Sects of the Five Zangs and Six Diseases · Spleen Symptoms": "The temper is strong, and there is more than one shape, then the disease is bloated, the sickness is unfavorable, the body is heavy and hungry, and the feet are not accepted ... Should be diarrhea. Insufficient temperament, the limbs are not used, after the discharge, vomiting and insufficiency, abdominal distension and bowel stomach are due to the deficiency of temper. "Therefore, there are three reasons for this: one is eating disorders; the other is overwork; Acute and chronic diseases. The above causes can damage the spleen and stomach, cause insufficiency of the spleen and stomach, impaired transport, and form a weak spleen and stomach syndrome.

Clinical manifestations of weak spleen and stomach

Common clinical manifestations of weak spleen and stomach: long course of disease, light and heavy when diarrhea, or cessation of diarrhea, thin stools, light and odorless, with indigestible food residues, easy to diarrhea after eating, see after eating more Abdominal bloating, more stools, lack of appetite, paleness, fatigue, thin body, pale tongue, thin white fur, and weak pulse.

If manifested as spleen deficiency, see: bloating, full stomach, even after eating, unknowing, or even diet, thin stools, lack of energy, weight loss, limb burnout, less gas, lazy words, pale or white, or Puffy limbs, pale tongue and white fur, weak pulses.

If manifested as deficiency of spleen and yang, see: abdominal distension is small, abdominal pain is continuous, like warm and happy, cold limbs are cold, stool is thin and thin. Or limbs are heavy, or limbs are swollen, urination is unfavorable, or leucorrhea is rare. The tongue is pale and mossy. The pulse is slow and weak.

See if there is insufficiency of the spleen: see the deficiency of spleen and qi, and lack of energy, qi and blood deficiency, less food, bloating, loose stools, limb burnout, less slack words, pale yellow tongue, pale tongue, and slow pulse weak. One is a variety of bleeding symptoms, such as blood in the stool, blood in the urine, excessive menstruation, and leakage. Those who have blood in the stool and belong to the spleen who are not in the blood of the spleen, who shed blood in the stool, have mixed blood, or have blood before the stool, the blood color is dark, or the stool is dark, and also have symptoms of spleen deficiency; Falling blood, or inexhaustible, pale, thin, pale or floating, body burnout, limbs are not warm, shortness of breath, lazy speech, etc.

If the manifestation of depression in the air is seen: pale complexion, dizziness and sweating, shortness of breath, burnout, less food, loose stools, heavy abdominal fall, frequent frequency of stool, turbid urine, such as rice clams, etc. More common in stomach ptosis, kidney ptosis, uterine ptosis, prolapse of the anus and chronic diarrhea.

Seen as manifestations of stomach yin deficiency: see dry mouth, dry lips, noisy, retching, reduced diet, or unpleasant swallowing, chest discomfort after eating, dry stool, red tongue center, less moss, or light, dry tongue , Pulse count and so on.

See if the symptoms of spleen and stomach are cold: Stomach pain is faint, endless, cold pain and discomfort, like warm and happy, fasting pain is very slow, getting food is slow, tired or cold or cold after the onset or aggravation of pain, vomiting water, eating Fewer, tired, weak hands, feet, thin stools, pale tongue and white fur, weak pulse.

Treatment of Weakness of Spleen and Stomach

Treatment principle

Those with weak spleen and stomach are invigorating the spleen and invigorating qi, helping transport and dampen. Main prescriptions: Liujunzi Decoction, Shenling Baizhu Powder. Commonly used Chinese medicines are Codonopsis, Atractylodes, Poria, Yam, Coix Seeds, Jiao Hawthorn, Jiao Shen Qu, Chenpi, Amomum (next). Can be decoction, 1 dose per day, 2 to 3 times.

If you see abdominal pain, add woody incense, incense stick; those with white tongue and greasy skin, add Cangzhu and Magnolia; thin stools, clear urine, and abdominal pain, add ginger, nutmeg, nootropic kernels; In other words, diarrhea does not stop, even anal prolapse, add astragalus, cohosh, pueraria root; combined with hot and humid, bitter tongue yellow, or sticky stool, add Coptis chinensis, purslane.

2. Master use

(1) Liujunzi Decoction is suitable for various syndromes of spleen deficiency.

Recipe: Codonopsis, Atractylodes, Poria, Chenpi, French Pinellia, Zhigancao.

Abdomen, bloating, pain, nausea and vomiting, add woody incense, amomum villosum, and fragrant incense; if you have diarrhea and have cold pain in the abdomen, and your hands and feet are not warm, you can add cannula, dry ginger; or cough, sputum Those who have more nausea and dizziness, add bamboo ru, snail shell grams; if long-term sputum is more thin and thin, shortness of breath and fatigue, add Zhiyan, coltsfoot flowers, white before.

(2) Shenlingbaizhu powder is suitable for spleen qi deficiency and dampness.

Recipes: Codonopsis, Atractylodes, Poria, Zhigancao, Yam, Fried Lentils, Lotus Seed Meat, Coix Seeds, Amomum Vulgaris, Bellflower.

If both the color and white matter are rare, add Cangzhu, Psyllium, Zexie, Bupleurum; if the leucorrhea lasts for a long time, you can also add Jin Yingzi, Zhishi, Calcined Longmu. Pediatric accumulation, taking this recipe, plus chicken internal gold, Divine Comedy, malt, hawthorn, as fine, 3 grams each time, 3 times a day.

Acupuncture for Spleen and Stomach Weakness

Acupuncture

Acupoints Neiguan, Zhongli, Zusanli, Pishu, Weishu, Guanyuan, Jianli, etc., need to be acupunctured once a day or every other day, using the method of tonic or flat tonic. Take turns. For pediatric congestion, use a triangular needle to pierce the palmar surface of the first knuckle of the middle finger, with a slight bleeding or yellow envelope mucus. Once every 4 days, 5 times is a course of treatment.

2. Moxibustion

Acupuncture points were taken in Zhongya, Zusanli, Shenquan, Weishu, Pishu and so on. Use moxa stick or ginger moxibustion once a day.

3. Ear acupuncture

Take sympathetic, Shenmen, lung, stomach and duodenal points. Choose 2 to 3 points each time, once every other day.

Spleen and stomach weakness prevention

1. General diet requirements for weak spleen and stomach

If the person with the spleen and stomach is cold, or the stomachache, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc. of the cold syndrome, they should eat hot onions, ginger, leek, garlic, pepper and so on. If the spleen and stomach are weak, red dates, yam, lentils, coriander seeds, lotus seeds, etc. should be consumed. And those who have stomach heat, should eat pear, coriander, sugar cane, honey and other dried cold products. If the patients with air-blockage are ill, they should eat more radish, bergamot, kumquat, or seasoning made from orange peel. Those who are related to spleen and stomach disease will choose to describe.

2.Common dietary methods

(1) Yipi cake atractylodes, dried ginger, chicken internal gold, cooked date meat. The first three flavors are rolled and roasted, and the jujube meat is mixed together, and the same is mashed into mud, which is made into small cakes, dried on a charcoal fire, fasting in the morning, and chewed.

(2) Honey After steaming and boiling the honey, take it on an empty stomach before eating, 2 to 3 times a day, and take it daily.

(3) Barley lotus seed porridge, barley kernel, lotus seed meat (peeled heart), and rock sugar. Fry the coix seed first, then add the lotus seed meat, add rock sugar after the porridge is ready, and eat it early.

(4) Yam lentil cake Fresh yam, lentils, tangerine peel, red date meat. Peel the yam and cut into thin slices, and then chop the jujube meat together, and then steam the cake for breakfast, 50-100 grams each time.

(5) Barley soup mutton, grass fruit, barley kernel. After slicing the mutton, boil the soup with grass fruit. After filtering, boil the barley kernels in the soup, cook them, add a little salt to serve, or cook them with the meat after filtering the juice.

3. Dietary supplement for children with weak spleen and stomach

(1) Red dates and millet porridge. Take red dates and millet. Wash the millet and fry them on a low heat until they are slightly yellow. Then add water and red dates to boil over high heat. For dyspepsia accompanied by anorexia in children with spleen deficiency.

(2) Lotus seed yam porridge Take lotus seeds, yam, and rice. Peel lotus seeds and heart, add yam, rice, and boiled porridge. It is suitable for children with weak spleen and stomach who lose weight and lose appetite.

(3) Porridge of A. ginseng and O. lentil porridge. First boil the ginseng and Ophiopogon for 20 minutes to obtain the juice, and add the rice and lentils to the porridge. It is suitable for children with spleen-yin deficiency due to hot hands and feet and dry stool.

4. Living care

(1) Keep mentally happy and avoid mental trauma caused by excessive fatigue, sorrow, sadness, horror, tension and other factors.

(2) Use less brain before meals, focus on meals, rest a little after meals, and develop good habits.

(3) Keep warm, especially the abdomen. If necessary, wear a cotton bellyband on the abdomen. Do not sleep in the cold in summer.

(4) Exercising the body, strengthening the physique, doing internal Qigong, aerobics and Taijiquan appropriately.

5. Taboo food

(1) All foods that are cold and easy to damage temper are taboo foods, such as bitter gourd, cucumber, winter gourd, eggplant, water spinach, celery, lotus root, lotus root, lettuce, broccoli, persimmon, banana, lotus root, pear, watermelon, Mung beans, tofu, oatmeal, etc.

(2) Foods that are thick and nourishing, and can easily hinder the function of temper, such as duck meat, pork, turtle meat, oyster meat, milk, sesame and so on.

(3) Foods that are good for dissipating qi, such as buckwheat; hawthorn, radish, coriander, etc.