Do you always feel fullness in your chest and flanks, prone to dizziness, palpitations and shortness of breath, thin phlegm, infrequent urination, prone to swelling, teeth marks on the edges of your tongue, and white and slippery tongue coating?

This is a symptom of spleen yang deficiency and internal water dampness.

People with spleen yang deficiency are usually afraid of the cold, their hands and feet are easily cold, they are prone to abdominal distension and indigestion, and even vague cold pain in the abdomen. They like warmth and massage, have long-term loose stools, are prone to diarrhea when cold, and are prone to body swelling. .

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen controls transportation and transformation. People with spleen yang deficiency have abnormal function of transporting and transforming water, and it is easy for them to stop gathering and become phlegm and water-dampness.

The medical sage Zhang Zhongjing used Linggui Zhugan Decoction to treat this kind of water-dampness, and the effect was extraordinary.

This prescription only contains 4 herbs: Poria, Guizhi, Atractylodes, and Zhigancao.

Poria cocos has the effect of strengthening the spleen, exuding dampness, and calming the nerves. It is suitable for people with dampness in the body and poor sleep.

Guizhi is pungent and warm, can induce sweating and relieve muscles, warm the meridians, help yang transform qi, and neutralize qi. Guizhi can not only relieve chest and hypochondrium fullness, but also help facilitate urination.

Atractylodes has the effects of strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi, removing dampness and diluting water.

Zhigancao not only replenishes qi and harmonizes various medicines, but when used in combination with cinnamon twig, it can also achieve the effect of "sweet and pungent, transforming yang" to replenish the body's spleen yang.

The late famous doctor Mr. Hu Xishu once used this prescription to treat a 19-year-old female patient with vertigo.

The patient suffered from dizziness, tinnitus, and deafness for 2 months. Western medicine diagnosed him with Ménière syndrome. However, no obvious effect was seen after taking both Chinese and Western medicine, so he had to drop out of school as a last resort.

She was introduced to Mr. Hu Xishu, a famous doctor at that time.

After Mr. Hu’s diagnosis, the patient suffered from spleen yang deficiency and cold drinks, and was blocked from clearing the orifices. He was prescribed Linggui Zhugan Decoction to warm the body and transform the body.

The patient recovered after taking this prescription for only 14 days and returned to school.

It can be seen that Linggui Zhugan decoction has extraordinary curative effect in warming yang, strengthening the spleen and removing dampness.

It should be noted that Linggui Zhugan Decoction is a warm medicinal material and is suitable for people with spleen-yang deficiency, which is often called deficiency-cold syndrome.

Therefore, the dampness treated by this prescription must be cold dampness, and it is not suitable for people with dampness-heat syndrome and phlegm-heat syndrome.

Because this prescription has a diuretic effect, people with yin deficiency, frequent urination, and excessive sweating cannot take it.

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