Spleen deficiency and white phlegm dietary treatment includes cooking porridge with Coix Seed, Chinese yam and Poria with millet.
Job’s tears, yam and poria are all medicinal food. Job’s tears have the effect of inducing water and seeping dampness (promoting the flow of water to dispel dampness), strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea. It can be used to treat edema, dysuria, diarrhea and intestinal carbuncles (carbuncles occurring in the intestines and bowels, manifested by fever, pain in the right abdomen, and palpable lumps), etc. It is not recommended for pregnant women. Pregnant women should be cautious of using Job’s tears.
Yam, with the benefit of qi and yin, tonifying the spleen, lungs and kidneys, fixing the essence and stopping the effect of the belt. It can be used for treating spleen deficiency with little food, fatigue, loose stools, lung deficiency with cough, kidney deficiency with spermatorrhea, and internal heat and thirst (internal heat accompanied by eating, drinking, and urinating). Dampness in the fullness (dampness is too heavy to cause fullness and discomfort in the spleen and stomach) or solid evil, stagnation is prohibited.
Poria cocos has the effects of inducing diuresis, subduing swelling, seeping dampness, strengthening the spleen and tranquilizing the heart. It is used for treating edema, phlegm (pathological product formed by impaired water metabolism), diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, palpitation and insomnia. It should be taken with caution in cases of yin deficiency without dampness-heat, deficiency of cold and essence-slip, and deficiency of qi and subsidence.
It should be noted that the effect of using Job’s tears, yam, poria, etc. with millet porridge is limited to the effect of the disease, and can not achieve the role of treatment of disease, and can not replace the drug treatment of disease.
If the symptoms of white phlegm of spleen deficiency are not relieved for a long time, it is recommended to seek medical treatment.