Is the medicine effective for spleen deficiency?

Spleen deficiency is quite common, and we all know that people of any age may be affected by this problem, so conditioning is indispensable. However, for spleen deficiency, dietary conditioning is more effective. Chinese herbal supplements or doing more spleen-strengthening exercises can have a good effect on improving spleen deficiency. Dietary taboos are cold foods that can easily damage the spleen, such as common bitter gourd and eggplant.

1. Avoid eating food

Foods that are cold in nature and can easily damage the spleen include bitter gourd, cucumber, wax gourd, eggplant, water spinach, celery, amaranth, wild rice stem, lettuce, day lily, persimmon, banana, loquat, pear, watermelon, mung bean, tofu, and oatmeal. Among them, foods that are thick and greasy in taste and can easily hinder the spleen's function of transporting and transforming include duck meat, pork turtle meat, oyster meat, milk, sesame, etc.; foods that can promote qi and eliminate accumulation and can easily damage the spleen include sandalwood, radish, coriander, etc.

2. Keep a happy mood

A positive, relaxed and optimistic mood can balance the yin and yang of the human body, promote the smooth flow of qi and blood, and make the mind clear, thus keeping the body in a healthy state or promoting recovery from illness. Modern medical research has also proved that when a person is in a good mood, the central nervous system is excited, the command function is strengthened, the body conducts normal digestion, absorption, secretion and excretion adjustments, and maintains vigorous metabolism.

3. Massage

Regular abdominal massage also has a health-promoting effect on strengthening the spleen. Place your hands on your navel and massage it 60 times in clockwise and counterclockwise directions. Regularly massaging the Zusanli point can also regulate the spleen and stomach.

4. Exercise to strengthen the spleen

Doing sit-ups regularly can strengthen your spleen and exercise your abdominal muscles at the same time. Do this 3 times a day, 5 minutes each time. Try not to exercise after meals as it is bad for digestion.

5. Foods to nourish the spleen

Excessive dampness is also one of the main causes of spleen deficiency, so there is a saying that to strengthen the spleen, you must first remove dampness. Job's tears, also known as coix seed, is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine. It is also a common and commonly eaten food. It tastes sweet, light and slightly cold. It has the effects of diuresis and swelling, invigorating the spleen and removing dampness, relaxing muscles and removing arthralgia, clearing away heat and discharging pus. It is a commonly used diuretic and dampness-injecting medicine. Job's tears have the functions of dispelling dampness and strengthening the spleen.