Spleen deficiency leads to subtle transport of Shui Gu, and the viscera and limbs are not nourished, leading to sallow complexion, mental fatigue, fatigue, drowsiness after eating, and eating less and boring; Or abdominal distension after eating, loose stool; Or indigestion, no temperature in limbs, shortness of breath and chills, female spleen deficiency; The tongue is light and fat, with tooth marks on the edge; A series of spleen deficiency manifestations such as weak pulse and weakness.

How do people with spleen deficiency choose food?

Eat foods with the functions of invigorating spleen and qi, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion and resolving food stagnation, such as japonica rice, indica rice, crispy rice, coix seed, cooked lotus root, millet, yam, lentils, cowpea, grapes, red dates, carrots, potatoes, mushrooms, etc.

Avoid foods that are cold and easy to hurt your temper, such as bitter gourd, cucumber, wax gourd, eggplant, water spinach, celery, amaranth, water bamboo, lettuce, day lily, persimmon, banana, loquat, pear, watermelon, mung bean, tofu, naked oats and so on. Among them, rich and greasy foods are easy to hinder the function of spleen-qi transport, such as duck meat, pork, turtle, oyster meat, milk, sesame and so on. Foods that benefit qi and eliminate stagnation and are easy to lose temper, such as buckwheat; Hawthorn, radish, coriander, etc.

Dietary reference prescription

rice gruel

50 grams of japonica rice, raisins 10 grams. Boil japonica rice with appropriate amount of water until it is 90% mature, add raisins and stew together until it becomes slurry.

sweet potato

Commonly known as sweet potato, sweet potato, sweet potato. It is flat in nature, sweet in taste, and has the functions of invigorating spleen and enriching blood, benefiting qi and relaxing bowels. "Life Taste Diet Spectrum" says: "Cooking supplements the spleen and stomach, benefits qi, keeps out the cold and benefits qi." The Outline holds that sweet potato can "tonify the middle energizer, warm the stomach and nourish the five internal organs". People with spleen deficiency can take sweet potato as the staple food and eat it often.

jujube

Warm in nature and sweet in taste, it has the functions of nourishing the spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and blood. As early as more than two thousand years ago, there was a record of "jujube calming the heart and strengthening the spleen" in Shennong Herbal Classic. Li Mingshi Zhen said, "Jujube is the fruit of the spleen, and it is suitable for spleen diseases." People with spleen deficiency, loose stool, gastrointestinal weakness and deficiency of qi and blood should take jujube regularly.

Spleen strengthening: yam, atractylodes macrocephala, coix seed, potato, white lentil, sweet potato, etc. As long as it grows deep underground, it can be used to strengthen the spleen. Use them to cook porridge, stew or cook alone. If you put a little lotus leaf, the effect of strengthening the spleen will be better.

Pay special attention to

Spleen deficiency generally does not appear alone, or accompanied by cold and heat, or qi stagnation, so there is generally no fixed prescription. To recuperate spleen deficiency, you need to ask Chinese medicine to make it clear to you dialectically, and then you will take all the credit for taking medicine. Otherwise, although spleen deficiency has improved, other diseases will follow, which is not worth the loss.

As for diet conditioning: generally speaking, a light and digestible diet should be adopted; Medicinal porridge is mainly made of yam and coix seed. And can be taken for a long time.