How to treat a bad spleen?

If your spleen is not in good condition, you should pay attention to scientific conditioning to prevent the disease from getting worse and causing more harm. You should pay attention to a reasonable diet and eat more foods that can strengthen the spleen and stimulate the appetite. At the same time, you should avoid greasy, spicy and irritating foods.

1. Basic principles of dietary conditioning.

The diet should be regular, with three meals at regular times and in fixed quantities, and no overeating; eat more easily digestible foods, such as porridge, congee, etc.; eat less irritating and difficult-to-digest foods, such as spicy and sour, fried, dry, hard and sticky foods, and try to eat less raw and cold foods.

2. Common foods that strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach.

①Japonica rice is flat in nature, sweet in taste, and has the effect of nourishing the spleen and replenishing qi. The "Food Mirror Materia Medica" records: "Japonica rice can nourish the spleen, benefit the five internal organs, strengthen the energy, and stop diarrhea, but the effect of japonica rice is the best.

② Job's tears

Commonly known as Job's tears rice and six-grain rice. It has the effect of nourishing the spleen and strengthening the stomach. Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen said it "can strengthen the spleen and stomach." "Bencao Jingshu" also records that "it tastes sweet and can enter the spleen and nourish the spleen." ③White lentils are mild in nature, sweet in taste, and can replenish weak spleen and stomach. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "White lentil is mild and neutral, and is the grain of the spleen. It can stop diarrhea and warm the spleen and stomach."

It is most suitable for people with spleen deficiency, vomiting, poor appetite and chronic diarrhea, children with spleen deficiency and malnutrition, and women with spleen deficiency and leucorrhea. ④Dates are warm in nature, sweet in taste, and have the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach, and replenishing qi and blood. Ming Li Shizhen said, "Dates are the fruit of the spleen, and are suitable for people with spleen diseases." People with spleen deficiency, loose stools, weak stomach, poor appetite, and insufficient qi and blood should eat dates regularly.

3. Simple and practical medicinal food.

① Carrot rice porridge: 100 grams of rice, 50 grams of carrots. After the rice is cooked into porridge, add carrots and cook until it is soft. It can be eaten. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach.

② Gorgon Fruit and Poria Cocos Porridge

15 grams of Gorgon fruit, 10 grams of Poria cocos, and appropriate amount of rice. Put the first two ingredients into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook until soft, then add appropriate amount of rice, continue to cook into porridge, and take in divided meals. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and removing dampness, astringing the intestines and stopping diarrhea.

③ The ancient recipe of Zhapicha combines Chinese herbs such as Amomum villosum, licorice, and Poria cocos. It is brewed with boiling water and taken orally. It has the effect of promoting qi and strengthening the spleen and stomach.