There is something wrong with the spleen and stomach, which is likely to implicate the five internal organs. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "nourishing the spleen and stomach means nourishing vitality, and nourishing vitality means nourishing life". The health of the spleen and stomach is an important factor to determine the length of life.
Heart and spleen are like a pair of mother and son. Heart disease should be treated from spleen and stomach. Spleen is responsible for coordinating human qi and blood and supporting the heart. Once there is something wrong with the spleen, it will lead to the imbalance of qi and blood and cause heart disease.
Interaction between liver and spleen and stomach. Patients often tell me that I still feel hungry after eating, but my stomach is full and taking gastrointestinal medicine doesn't work. In fact, this is often related to excessive work pressure or bad mood leading to liver depression and qi stagnation. To solve the problem of spleen and stomach, we must first nourish the liver. Conversely, the spleen and stomach will also affect the liver. For example, the root of fatty liver is that the spleen and stomach can't digest food well, which makes it difficult to treat garbage and accumulate in the liver, thus affecting the blood supply of the liver and other functions.
Spleen and stomach weakness first affects the lungs. The lung is like a "prime minister" who specializes in assisting the "monarch" of the heart. The lungs help the heart manage the whole body by managing the qi in the body. However, the rise and fall of lung qi depends on the strength of spleen and stomach. People with weak spleen and stomach often lead to respiratory diseases such as lung qi deficiency and easy to catch a cold.
Spleen deficiency is often accompanied by kidney deficiency. People are full of energy and kidney qi. The strength of kidney essence is also related to whether people's spleen and stomach are healthy and whether they can provide sufficient nutrition to nourish the kidneys. Long-term spleen deficiency can lead to kidney deficiency, which is characterized by restless mind, easy night sweats, or fear of cold, cold hands and feet.
Stomach disease is related to people's uncontrolled diet in Dachuan, and spleen disease is related to people's overwork. Although the causes of spleen and stomach diseases are different, they must be raised together.
Spleen and stomach have three fears. One is afraid of living, the other is afraid of cold, and the third is afraid of raising. Cold food, such as all kinds of cold drinks, raw vegetables, fruits, etc., will enter the body with cold air, which is most likely to hurt the spleen and stomach. In addition, the spleen and stomach are most afraid of support, and a hungry meal is the most harmful to it.
Among the evils of wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness and fire, TCM is most afraid of dampness. Hot and cold are easy to handle, cold is warm, and hot is cold; We will drive away the wind when there is wind, moisten when there is dryness, and clear when there is summer heat. But is it wet? That's a bit difficult. Nine times out of ten, the method of drying dampness will hurt body fluid, but drying dampness cannot be removed. Therefore, in addition to dryness and dampness, Chinese medicine is also beneficial to dampness, dampness, and dampness. The more ways, the more difficult it is to deal with this enemy.
To remove the moisture in the body, the method is very simple, and only two "drugs" are needed. These two medicines can be eaten as tea and can solve big problems. One is coix seed and the other is red bean. These two things don't need to be caught in any proportion at a time. Wash them and cook them in a pot with water. After cooking, it is a good product for eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen-glutinous rice red bean porridge.
As for the efficacy, it is really serious. Coix lachryma-jobi seed, called "Coix lachryma-jobi seed" in Chinese medicine, is listed as the top grade in Shennong Herbal Classic. It can eliminate dampness and benefit the stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, and can strengthen the body and replenish qi if taken for a long time. Red beans, known as "adzuki beans" in Chinese medicine, also have obvious diuretic and detumescence effects and spleen and stomach strengthening effects. Because they are red, they can nourish the heart. Modern people are under great mental pressure and lack of spirit; Poor diet, less exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. To eliminate dampness, nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen and stomach, barley and red beans are the only ones. Boiling it into porridge is intended to make its effective components fully absorbed by the human body, and at the same time it will not cause too much burden on the spleen and stomach.
The "detumescence" effect of coix seed and red bean is also very interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. Look at people now, at least five or six out of ten people are fat and swollen, which is called bloated. In Chinese medicine, obesity or edema means that the body is wet, and water can't stay between somatic cells with the flow of qi and blood, which makes the human body expand rapidly. So is edema, and so is obesity, but to different degrees. Drugs or foods with strong dehumidification function can discharge these watery liquids remaining in the human body and also reduce swelling. Therefore, red beans must be used to treat edema, and practice has proved that barley red bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, which can not only lose weight, but also does not hurt the body. Especially for middle-aged and elderly obesity, the effect is particularly good.
Dampness is the root of all kinds of chronic incurable diseases in modern times, and Coix seed and red bean soup is a good medicine for treating dampness. After I prescribe drugs to patients in clinic, I always tell them some matters needing attention in diet and daily life, the most important of which is to go back and drink barley and red bean soup as tea. For patients who really don't have this condition, I will let him cook porridge with barley and red beans as the staple food for dinner. A student once asked me, "Why do you let everyone drink barley and red bean soup and barley and red bean porridge?" I said, because getting wet in the body is a common problem of modern people, barley and red bean soup is suitable for everyone. This is a fact. I have a patient who runs a big company. He felt particularly good after drinking my glutinous rice and red bean porridge. He even ordered his company's kitchen to cook porridge with glutinous rice and red beans every morning to make breakfast for employees who arrived early. Put the boiled highland barley and red bean soup in several large heat preservation barrels for the employees of the whole company to drink.
People often ask: "Why can't glutinous rice and red bean porridge be cooked into a sticky shape?" Some people think they are smart and say to me, "I added a handful of rice when I cooked glutinous rice and red bean porridge." As a result, the porridge thickens and tastes delicious! "
I said, "Never add more rice!" Why? Because rice grows in water and contains moisture, it is wet and sticky, so it will thicken when cooked. Both red beans and coix seed are dehumidified and contain no water, so they are not strong and the soup is clear. Traditional Chinese medicine just uses its clarity to get rid of the dryness and dampness of the human body. Once rice is added, it is equivalent to adding water, so the whole porridge is thick. Although the taste is better, it is not a good thing for health. Because of that handful of rice, all the red beans and barley were wasted, and the effect was useless.
Besides red bean glutinous rice porridge, you can learn more about the nature and taste of various foods, add and subtract by yourself, and form more dietary prescriptions suitable for your physique. Only in this way can food really become a good health care product.
Look dull, listless, even palpitation, drowsiness, emptiness in the heart: barley, red beans and longan.
Irritability and insomnia, or rash and acne on the face: barley and red beans with lily and lotus seeds.
Cold stomach pain, poor appetite, fear of cold: barley and red beans with ginger.
Kidney deficiency: barley, red beans and black beans
Beriberi: barley, red beans and soybeans.
Cough: red beans, pears and glutinous rice
Loss of appetite and thin figure: barley, red beans and yam.
Diarrhea, abdominal pain and diabetes: barley, red beans and pumpkin.
Physical weakness, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission and polyuria: add Coicis Semen and Euryale Semen.
Pregnant women: reduce coix seed and add a small amount of astragalus and codonopsis pilosula.
Maternity: Reduce coix seed and increase jujube, millet and brown sugar.
PS: The above content was written by Dr. Wu Guozhong. After eating for a while, the effect is obvious! Good luck!