Symptoms and treatment of liver depression and spleen deficiency

Liver depression and spleen deficiency is a relatively common symptom, which mainly refers to poor liver function, which will cause the spleen function to decline, and often cause patients to have some digestive system symptoms, such as loose stools, abdominal distension and abdominal pain, etc., and there will be a decrease in appetite and physical fatigue. At this time, timely care should be strengthened, and eating more foods will help promote appetite and eat more foods that help promote liver function recovery.

Symptoms of Liver Depression and Spleen Deficiency

Why does liver depression and spleen deficiency occur? In fact, there are many reasons, such as worry and anger damaging the liver, liver disorder, or improper diet. Overwork, etc. What are the symptoms when liver depression and spleen deficiency occur?

① Loose stools and lower abdominal distension and pain are related to emotions.

② Emotional anxiety or depression.

③ Poor appetite, fatigue, listlessness, tiredness and weakness.

Secondary symptoms

Painful and distending sensation in the ribs or stomach; bitter taste in the mouth and dry throat; foreign body sensation in the throat; warm and sour taste; slightly red edges on the tip of the tongue with slightly yellowish coating; or pale tongue with slightly fat tongue or teeth marks; stringy pulse.

If the patient has any of the above symptoms, it can be diagnosed as liver depression and spleen deficiency syndrome, so everyone should pay special attention.

How to treat liver depression and spleen deficiency

1. Spinach and blood stew

First, prepare 200 grams of spinach and 100 grams of animal blood. Wash the spinach and cook it with the animal blood to make soup.

After washing the spinach, you can cook it with animal blood into soup. Spinach can nourish yin and moisten dryness, soothe the liver and nourish blood, and help treat liver qi discomfort. Cooking it with animal blood can strengthen the spleen and replenish blood. It is suitable for people with sub-healthy conditions such as liver depression and spleen deficiency to regulate their bodies.

2. Grapefruit peel fermented glutinous rice

Prepare equal parts of deboned grapefruit peel, green agarwood, chuanxiong, and appropriate amounts of fermented glutinous rice and brown sugar. First, grind grapefruit peel, Aucklandia lappa, Chuanxiong, etc. into fine powder. Add 3 to 6 grams of the powder each time you cook a small bowl of brown sugar fermented glutinous rice. Then take it while it is hot, twice a day.

Pomelo peel has the effect of relaxing the stomach and regulating qi, and can help digestion and resolve phlegm, while green atractylodes has the effect of promoting qi and relieving pain, and is suitable for regulating liver depression, qi stagnation, and liver-stomach disharmony, while fermented glutinous rice and brown sugar have the effect of dispersing cold, harmonizing blood, and strengthening the spleen and stomach.

3. Amomum villosum and tangerine peel porridge

Prepare 10 grams of Amomum villosum, 5 grams of tangerine peel, and 100 grams of polished rice. First, grind the Amomum villosum into powder, then wash the polished rice and cook it with tangerine peel into porridge, then add the Amomum villosum powder and cook for a while.

Amomum villosum has the effect of promoting qi and relieving fullness, warming the middle and eliminating dampness, strengthening the spleen and stimulating appetite. Amomum villosum and tangerine peel can work together to soothe the liver and regulate qi. Because Amomum villosum contains a variety of volatile oils, do not boil it for too long to avoid reducing its effectiveness. Please note that patients with yang deficiency and excess heat should not take this porridge.

4. Gansong Congee

Prepare 5 grams of nardostachysirhizoma and 100 grams of glutinous rice. First, boil the nardostachysirhizoma with water. After cooking, remove the juice and set aside. Wash the japonica rice and cook it into porridge. When the porridge is cooked, add the sweet osmanthus juice and cook it for a while.

Take 1 to 2 times a day while warm. Nardostachys lathyris is sweet and warm in nature, can enter the spleen meridian and stomach meridian, help promote qi circulation and relieve pain, relieve depression and invigorate the spleen. Cooking it into porridge with glutinous rice can strengthen the spleen and replenish the middle, and help treat and regulate sub-health.