1, spleen qi deficiency: less food, abdominal distension, loose stools, weakness, atrophy, emaciation or swelling, phlegm, organ prolapse, chronic bleeding, light fat tongue with tooth marks and thin white coating, weak pulse.
Treatment: Strengthening the spleen and benefiting Qi.
Prescription: Sijunzi Tang (Six Junzi Tang, Tonifying Zhong Yi Qi Tang, Gui Shen Tang).
Traditional Chinese medicine: Six Junzi Pills, Xiang Sha and Stomach Pills, Gastric Fuchun Tablets, Stomach Nourishing Granules.
Causes: poor diet (too hungry and too full), overwork, excessive thinking.
Care: eat less and more meals, soft and easy to digest diet, staple food as the main food, meat and vegetables as a supplement, optional 1, with tonic effect, mild food, millet, noodles, red dates, etc., spleen deficiency has more dampness, can be selected with a pungent smell, can wake up the spleen appetite food such as cilantro, Buddha’s hand, etc.. Avoid raw, cold and hard food, spicy stimulation.
2, spleen Yang deficiency: cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, warmth and pressure, cold form and limbs, little food, abdominal distension, loose stools, light fat tongue, white slippery coating, sunken and weak pulse.
Treatment: Warming and tonifying Spleen-Yang.
Radix: Radix Rehmanniae Sinensis.
Chinese herbal medicine: Warming the stomach and soothing the capsule, and Appendage Rizhong Pill.
Causes: Deficiency of the spleen and cold, or excessive consumption of cold and raw food, or taking cold medicine for a long time.
Conditioning: It is advisable to eat warm food, such as mutton, dog, chicken, tripe, pork belly, ginger, pepper, fennel, etc. Avoid cold, cold food (crab, watermelon, pear, persimmon, banana, mung beans, etc.).
3, stomach Yin deficiency: vague burning pain in the stomach and epigastrium, heartburn, dry vomiting and erratic, dry mouth and throat, hunger, dry stools, red tongue and less fluid, thin pulse. Treatment is to nourish Yin and harmonize the stomach, and to benefit the stomach soup. Morodan, Nourishing Stomach Relief Capsules.
Causes: Excessive consumption of spicy food, heat illness injuring Yin, prolonged use of heat medication.
Moderate care: avoid spicy and stimulating, hot foods (onion, ginger, garlic, mutton, etc.), preferably cool foods: apple, tomato, duck, lily, lotus root, water chestnut, milk, sugar cane, etc. Eating less into the soup helps swallowing and digestion.
4.Damp heat in the spleen and stomach: stuffy stomach and abdomen, nausea and vomiting, acid reflux, heavy limbs, bitter mouth and sticky mouth, loose stools, red tongue with yellow greasy coating, moist pulse.
Treatment: Clearing heat and resolving dampness.
Remedy: Huanglian Wenzhi Tang.
Causes: Excessive smoking and drinking, excessive consumption of greasy and spicy food.
Regulating care: avoid smoking, alcohol, greasy and spicy, it is advisable to eat bitter, tea, bitter melon, etc.
5, liver and stomach disharmony: gastric distension and stomach pain, fullness in both sides, belching, irritability, bitterness in the mouth, acid reflux, nausea and vomiting, light red tongue with thin yellow coating and string pulse.
Treatment: Relieve liver and Qi, harmonize the stomach and subdue rebellion.
Radix: Chai Hu Shu Liver San.
Chinese patent medicine: Shu Liver and Stomach Pill, Qi Stagnation and Stomach Pain Punch.
Causes: Depression and excessive anger.
Treatment: Relieving emotions and eating aromatic foods, such as Buddha’s hand, toon, rose flower.