So from the perspective of Chinese medicine, generally speaking, the symptoms are only vomiting, which is related to the stomach; It only shows diarrhea, which is related to the spleen. Here, it has a very strict boundary. Therefore, the concept of Chinese medicine is the function of the spleen and stomach, not the organ.
There is another phenomenon. For example, a child ate a hot steamed bun, and then he immediately ate an popsicle. So I have diarrhea. Send him to the hospital for examination, and the doctor may say that the child is suspected of enteritis. Enteritis or not, take antibiotics first. Are antibiotics effective? It can be said that a really good doctor, whether Chinese medicine or western medicine, will not use antibiotics when he comes up without diagnosing the patient. If you test his stool, there is no bacteria or inflammation, according to the truth, antibiotics should not be used. If antibiotics are used at this time, the flora that helps digestion in his stomach will often be destroyed. Traditional Chinese medicine calls this kind of diarrhea spleen deficiency, or spleen deficiency and dampness excess. It is a kind of diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, with one cold and one heat. This kind of diarrhea can also occur if there is a problem with the lifting function of the spleen and stomach. In fact, in this case, as long as you take some medicine or balance your diet, you will basically be fine. Therefore, diseases on the spleen and stomach are generally caused by unclean diet or improper methods.
In fact, in life, disharmony between spleen and stomach is often called "disharmony between liver and stomach". Why is it called liver and stomach? Because people nowadays have big tempers, some people love to be angry, and worry that being angry will easily lead to liver depression. The liver is the main excretory organ. If people are angry, it will affect liver function. It can't transfuse blood. On the contrary, the liver belongs to wood in the five elements of TCM, and the spleen belongs to soil in TCM, which will cause diseases in the spleen and stomach. So in clinic, there are many diseases of digestive system, which are not only directly related to diet, but also related to people's emotions.
24, spleen dampness common cold, the chief culprit of rheumatism
Modern people are "wet" over time because of excessive mental stress, overeating, reduced exercise, and disproportionate intake and discharge. If there is dampness in the body, rheumatism will be formed due to exogenous cold. This is also the direct reason why there are more and more rheumatism patients in modern people.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the spleen is the main transporter and the stomach is the main receiver. How to understand transportation and acceptance? We can understand the human stomach as a granary, and everything you eat can be kept in it. So, what is spleen? What is the function of spleen? Regarding the function of spleen, we can compare it to a logistics company in modern society. You have to transport the things in the warehouse (that is, the stomach) to the parts you need through this logistics company. If there is a problem with this function of this logistics, it is spleen and stomach disharmony. Disharmony between spleen and stomach will lead to the diseases we mentioned before. But in Chinese medicine, these diseases are not called gastritis or duodenal ulcer. We mainly call it epigastric pain. Why is this happening? For example, your stomach can hold two kilograms of things, and your logistics company has only two workers. Let these two workers carry two kilograms of things, and you will reach a balanced state. If you suddenly eat four kilograms and let these two workers work, then he will have to work overtime. Therefore, eating too much is not good. Eating too much will make workers tired. If you don't give him a bonus, he will quit. You eat less and want to let these two workers work, which is equivalent to increasing your human resource cost, which becomes a problem. No more, no less. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, it is not appropriate to be hungry. Then, why is spleen deficiency and dampness excess also a kind of constitution of modern urbanites? It is because we now have several characteristics: First, we are under great pressure, mainly because of excessive mental pressure. There are many reasons for this situation, some of which are due to the heavy work pressure; Some want to start their own businesses, their desire is too strong, too high and so on. Coupled with overeating, the amount of exercise is reduced, so intake and discharge are not proportional. Over time, this thing accumulated in your body is called dampness.
The concept of spleen dampness, as I just said, is that there is something wrong with the logistics company, and you give him a lot of things to carry every day. He is overworked and overworked, and he can't finish moving. These things become the internal causes of diseases in your body.
● The common cold plus spleen dampness is rheumatism.
There is dampness in the body and cold outside. When a cold gets wet, it becomes rheumatism For example, what we call rheumatoid arthritis is called joint pain in Chinese medicine. When the weather changes, people's limbs are cold or feel pain, which is often related to the moisture in your body.
In fact, this is also very understandable. For example, when Xiaohegou comes in winter, the river will freeze. Then, if you have a lot of moisture in your body, your body will freeze when you feel the evil of cold. But I'm not saying you're really frozen. Let's take freezing as an example.
Cold things have a characteristic, that is, cold dominates absorption and stagnation. Traction and stagnation in the body will block the meridians in the body, leading to systemic pain.
Why does it hurt? The truth doesn't hurt, but it hurts if it doesn't work. That's what it means. However, if you are not wet inside, I am not afraid of what is cold outside. Therefore, Huangdi Neijing also said: "Wind, rain, cold and heat cannot be empty, and evil cannot harm people alone. Righteousness exists inside, and evil cannot be done. " If you have no internal causes of these diseases and no moisture in your body, don't be afraid of whatever "evil" is outside. Therefore, it can be seen that dampness is also an important cause of disease. Gourd yellow rice wine, a move to eliminate dampness and health care, is very harmful to human body. Don't wait for it to attack before you go to treatment, but dehumidify it early. Gourd mixed with yellow wine can be eaten as a health care method regardless of yin deficiency, internal heat and spleen deficiency.
● Worrying Zhou Ziqi supervisor.
Spleen dampness, yin deficiency and internal heat are often combined into diseases. Such as damp heat, take coronary heart disease as an example. When someone says coronary heart disease, they will say, ouch, this is terrible. But in fact, many people have coronary heart disease at present. In Chinese medicine, we don't call it coronary heart disease, we call it heartache, or true heartache, or chest pain. There are many causes of coronary heart disease, but one of them is very common in clinic, and that is "phlegm-dampness and blood stasis". This sputum is not the sputum we spit, but the sputum in a broad sense. There are two kinds of phlegm in our bodies, one is called tangible phlegm, which we can see and touch; One is called invisible phlegm, which permeates the upper, middle and lower triple energizer to make up for the ubiquitous moisture in your qi and blood. This is also called phlegm.
You have this inherent risk factor, there is a mole inside, and when the external conditions are ripe, phlegm will accumulate and nucleate. For example, breast nodules like women are also wet. Over time, it is a knot and a core. The same is true of coronary heart disease with phlegm-dampness and blood stasis. These things in your body are much more humid for a long time. Blood stasis is in the capillaries around your heart, causing a large area of blood stasis, which will lead to chest tightness and chest tightness. In fact, the prevention of this disease is very simple. Usually you just need to get wet. I remember my grandfather also treated a famous person in Shandong. In the 1920s, there was a very famous man named Zhou Ziqi, who worked as a military inspector in Shandong. Once he was in Beijing, he asked my grandfather to help him see a doctor, and my grandfather went, which was a sign of illness. His old man's house gave Zhou Ziqi some medicine, and it would be fine. This shows the importance of preventive methods. Don't wait for it to attack before treating it. You should melt the moisture.
Wet method of low gourd yellow rice wine
Regarding dehumidification, I will give you a small formula here. This formula is very simple, no matter men, women and children, whether you have internal heat due to yin deficiency or damp-heat due to spleen deficiency, you can eat it as a health care method.
We should look for the gourd first. In the countryside, we can see this kind of gourd everywhere. There are two kinds of gourds, one is bitter and the other is sweet. We want that sweet gourd, because it is not poisonous. If conditions permit, we want fresh gourds, not old ones. Let's find two gourds, cut off the top of one of them and pick out the pulp as soon as possible. After that, wash another gourd, chop it up, and pour these pieces into that gourd. Next, buy some Shaoxing flower carvings, or buy other particularly good yellow wine and pour the wine in. Then seal the gourd cover and put it in a cool place at home 10 days or more. Open it again and pour a small cup, just one or two cups, before going to bed every night to warm it up.
Why should it be accompanied by yellow wine? From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, any medicine basically enters the first, second or third meridians. However, Shennong Baicao Classic says that wine is the length of a hundred medicines and can enter the twelve classics. You use wine as an introduction to medicine, especially yellow wine, to raise people without hurting people. What is the function of gourd? It is clear water diuretic, which can spread to all meridians of your body through wine and take away moisture in your body through urine. So this kind of thing can be used as an ordinary household item. Drink a little before going to bed every night, but remember, don't drink too much. Because as far as wine itself is concerned, drinking too much will hurt people.
So what symptoms is this thing suitable for? Like friends with cold hands and feet or arthritis. Of course, this is not a radical cure, it can only alleviate some symptoms. For example, there are low back pain, chest tightness, dysuria and edema of female legs caused by non-sports injuries, and drinking gourd with yellow wine has no toxic side effects. We can all try. Regarding the test of spleen dampness, I also made a self-test table. You can test it.
Self-rated physical characteristics of spleen deficiency and dampness excess: loss of appetite, abnormal stool, epigastric pain, cold limbs and yellow greasy tongue coating. Wu Guozhong: A Simple Method for Self-diagnosis of Moisture in the Body Wu Guozhong: Coix seed and red bean soup-a small remedy to dredge moisture. Wu Guozhong Video: Learn about the moisture in the human body and how to get rid of it.