Herbal medicines that open the stomach and strengthen the spleen include malt, hawthorn and Shenquan. It is recommended to choose suitable medicines to regulate under the guidance of a doctor.
1. Malt has the effects of moving qi and eliminating food, strengthening the spleen and appetizing the stomach, restoring breast milk (so that milk is reduced or no longer secreted) and eliminating flatulence. It is mostly used for the treatment of food stagnation (indigestion of food and stagnation in the stomach) that does not go away, distension and pain in the epigastrium (stomach and abdomen), deficiency of the spleen and low food intake, distension and pain in the breasts, weaning of women, and pain in the liver and stomach qi, and other diseases.
2. Hawthorn has the effects of eliminating food, strengthening spleen, opening stomach, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is used for meat and food stagnation, stomach and epigastric distension, dysentery and abdominal pain, menstrual occlusion with blood stasis, post-partum stasis, stabbing pain in the heart and abdomen, chest paralysis (stuffy pain in the chest), heart pain, hernia pain, hyperlipidemia and other diseases.
3. Shenqu has the efficacy of eliminating food stagnation, strengthening the spleen and harmonizing the stomach. It is used in the treatment of dyspepsia, inappetence and other conditions of conditioning.