Author: Guo Wei, PhD, Shandong University of Traditional C
Author: Guo Wei, PhD, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Author's BiographyWei Guo is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine from Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and deputy chief physician of Shandong Xinzhonglu Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. Organized by Xin Zhao, Zhihan Tian, 8 years of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The importance of the spleen and stomach as the foundation of the latter day and the hub of the body's qi lifting and lowering is self-evident. Therefore, we must take good care of our stomach in our daily life. As the saying goes, "If you have a minute of stomach energy, you have a minute of vitality; if you save a minute of stomach energy, you can save your life." Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach for each other, often affect each other stomach disease. The viscera for the disease, although the viscera disease more virtual, viscera disease more real, but the disease will be weak, there will be a spleen and stomach are weak. So, what are the clinical symptoms of spleen and stomach weakness, and what drugs can be selected for targeted treatment? The common spleen and stomach weakness, clinical manifestations are often not think of food, fatigue, food is not eliminated, loose stools, epigastric distension, belching and swallowing of acid, noisy dry heat, fear of cold and pain, etc. The most important thing is to have a good understanding of the nature of the disease, and to be able to understand it.
(1) do not want to eat , that is, do not want to eat, see the meal has no appetite, mainly due to spleen deficiency. Clinical usually choose atractylodes macrocephala, poria and so on spleen and dampness of the drug.
(2) fatigue , mainly feel the body has no strength, a little activity on the fatigue, mainly caused by spleen deficiency, clinical usually choose astragalus, ginseng and so on tonic spleen gas, lung gas, or ginseng tonic vitality.
(3) food accumulation is not eliminated, that is, after eating the feeling of indigestion, or digestion is slow, mainly because of the spleen and stomach qi deficiency, transport and transformation of the powerless, the clinic is often selected jiao hawthorn, jiao malt, jiao shen qu, chicken inside the gold and other elimination of food medicine.
(4) loose stools, that is, the stools are not shaped, more often, mainly due to the spleen deficiency dampness, the clinical often choose Zelda, Poria, Cangzhu, thick Park and so on the dampness of the spleen, dry dampness diarrhea drugs.
(5) epigastric distension , is the stomach abdominal gas, often hiccups, hiccups after a slight slowdown, is mainly the spleen and stomach qi deficiency, and then stagnant, or stagnant liver qi, and then lead to stagnation of the spleen and stomach qi, the clinic is often choose Chen Pi, Hovenia, Hovenia, Qing Pi, Xiang Guan, and other qi to strengthen the spleen, the liver and the qi of the drug.
(6) belching and swallowing acid , that is, heavier breath, bad taste in the mouth, and easy to regurgitate acidic water, the main spleen and stomach weakness, transport and conduction malfunction caused by, in addition to the choice of food to strengthen the spleen of the Jiao Shenqu, Jiao Maibao, jiao Neijin, and so on (considering the Jiao Hawthorn stimulation of gastric acid can be used sparingly or not), and excessive secretion of gastric acid, and even reflux, clinically commonly used cuttlebone
(7) noisy dry heat , is inexplicably difficult in the stomach, there is a sense of heat, mainly because of the lack of gastric yin, the clinic often choose to salvia, maitake, bamboo and other nourishing yin clear heat and dryness of the drug, but also can be used with the Huanglian, dandelion, and other heat-clearing medicines joint application.
(8) stomach cold hidden pain , is not able to eat cold food, occasional hidden pain feeling, mainly due to the spleen and stomach cold, clinical often choose dry ginger, Wu Zhu, Yanhuosuo and other warm in the pain medication.
In summary, there are more symptoms and types of spleen weakness, clinical need to carefully identify, according to the different symptoms, choose different combinations of drugs for treatment, and finally achieve satisfactory results.