What is spleen deficiency? Why is spleen deficiency more terrible than kidney deficiency?

The spleen is an important lymphatic organ with functions such as hematopoiesis, blood filtration, removal of aging blood cells and participation in immune response. Because it contains rich blood and can urgently replenish blood to other organs, it is known as the "human blood bank". So what are the dangers of spleen deficiency?

What are the dangers of spleen deficiency?

Spleen deficiency can cause puffiness

Nowadays, both men and women are pursuing a good figure. However, many people will gain weight the more they lose weight, and they gain weight as soon as summer comes, before they even start to lose weight. These are actually caused by spleen deficiency. First of all, spleen deficiency leads to decreased transportation and transformation capabilities, difficulty in metabolism, and excessive accumulation of food in the body, resulting in obesity. Obesity can easily cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, fatty liver, and increase the burden on the heart. People may die prematurely due to diseases caused by obesity.

Spleen deficiency will turn you into a "yellow-faced woman"

Spleen deficiency in women can cause yellow skin and poor complexion, which is what we often say makes them look old. This is definitely a blow to women. These people often cannot digest food due to spleen deficiency, and they become weak, lack of energy, anemia, and have a sallow or pale complexion. Often this type of people cannot bear weight and have poor resistance.

Spleen deficiency, diarrhea, heavy menstruation

Diarrhea is the most typical symptom of spleen deficiency, which is mainly caused by spleen yang deficiency, resulting in the inability to transport and transform food, the invasion of moisture, and loose stools. The spleen is the source of Qi and blood production. If the spleen is weak, it cannot regulate blood, causing blood to flow abnormally through blood vessels, resulting in chronic bleeding, excessive menstrual flow and other symptoms of spleen deficiency.

Spleen deficiency can cause fear of both cold and heat

In traditional Chinese medicine, deficiency is divided into yang deficiency and yin deficiency. Yang deficiency causes fear of cold, while yin deficiency causes fear of heat. Spleen deficiency can lead to deficiency of both Qi and Yin, resulting in hot hands and feet and a preference for cold even when sick in winter. It is very easy to get heatstroke in the summer, and people are in a state of low blood pressure all year round, feeling lack of energy and confusion every day.

Common symptoms of spleen deficiency

Spleen deficiency in TCM refers to the disease caused by spleen weakness as TCM calls it. Although the symptoms are rather complicated, they mainly include vomiting, diarrhea, edema, bleeding, amenorrhea, leucorrhea, cold limbs, and excessive salivation in children.

1. Spleen deficiency: abdominal distension and poor appetite, worse distension after eating, limb fatigue, mental fatigue, shortness of breath and laziness to speak, weight loss, or obesity and edema, pale tongue coating.

2. Spleen Yang deficiency: loose stools, poor appetite and abdominal distension, persistent abdominal pain, likes warmth and pressure, is afraid of cold, has cold limbs, has a dull or swollen face, has scanty urine or has abundant and clear white leucorrhea, and has a slippery white tongue coating.

3. Sinking of Qi in the middle part of the body: such as chronic diarrhea, rectal prolapse, uterine prolapse, etc.

4. Spleen fails to regulate blood: This is often seen in chronic bleeding diseases, such as menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, bloody stools, epistaxis, subcutaneous hemorrhage, etc. In addition to bleeding, there will be some symptoms of spleen deficiency.