What are the symptoms of spleen deficiency? Which parts should be moxibustioned for spleen deficiency?

Regulating the spleen and stomach is a long and gradual process. In life, we often see people who eat a lot but cannot gain weight. This is because they have bad spleen and stomach, and they cannot digest the food they eat. Therefore, we need to regulate the spleen and stomach through diet therapy and physical exercise.

Symptoms of Spleen and Stomach Disharmony

1. Loss of appetite, irritability, crying, and easy to catch cold and fever.

2. Spleen symptoms include bad breath, abdominal distension, and dry or loose stools.

3. The face is pale and sallow, and there are blue spots on the whites of the eyes.

4. Poor sleep at night, sweating on the head, love to sleep on the stomach, and sleep with eyes wide open.

5. The tongue is reddish, with thick white or greasy coating, and may also appear as a geographic tongue for a long time.

6. Rough, dry, dull, wrinkled, pigmented skin and even maculopapular rashes may appear. Once sub-healthy condition occurs, treatment to regulate the spleen and stomach can also achieve good results. Spleen and stomach dysfunction is clinically characterized by loss of appetite and abdominal distension after eating as the main manifestations. It is common in epigastric pain, abdominal distension, vomiting, belching, diarrhea, constipation, as well as chronic gastroenteritis, gastroduodenal ulcer, chronic hepatitis and other diseases in Western medicine.

How to self-regulate

First, eat regularly. Diet regulation is the key to maintaining the spleen and stomach. Therefore, three meals a day should be eaten at regular times and in regular quantities, and overeating should be avoided. Mainly eat vegetarian food with some meat in between. Eat green vegetables and fruits regularly to meet digestive needs and keep bowel movements smooth. Eat less irritating and difficult-to-digest foods, such as spicy and sour, fried foods, and also eat less raw and cold foods.

Second, proper exercise. In daily life, try to walk instead of driving, go up and down stairs instead of taking the elevator, take a walk after meals, and jog in the morning. Proper physical exercise can enhance the gastrointestinal function of the human body, strengthen gastrointestinal motility, increase the secretion of digestive juice, promote food digestion and absorption of nutrients, and improve the blood circulation of the gastrointestinal tract itself and promote its metabolism.

Third, control your emotional changes and avoid extreme joy or sorrow. Maintaining a good mood is equivalent to maintaining a good appetite. Emotional factors have a great impact on appetite, digestion and absorption. Bad emotions can affect appetite, cause indigestion, etc., while good emotions are beneficial to the normal activities of the gastrointestinal system.

Fourth, pay attention to temperature. As the saying goes, "Nine out of ten stomach problems are caused by cold." This is indeed a rule of thumb. It is very important to keep warm. As winter approaches, people with cold stomachs should pay attention to keeping warm and avoid cold. People with spleen deficiency can stick a warm navel plaster on the navel. At the same time, they should eat less raw and cold fruits and vegetables. They can take a cup of boiled water soaked with ginger in the morning to warm their stomachs.

Which part should be moxibustioned for poor spleen and stomach?

Modern people have weak spleen and stomach, mostly due to spleen yang deficiency. Moxa therapy is one of the best ways to raise yang, so the purpose of regulating spleen yang deficiency can be achieved by moxa therapy on Shenque.

It is recommended that you try cupping, with the Shenque point as the center, and select the following points on the upper and lower parts: Jianli, Xiawan, Shuifen, Yinjiao, Qihai, Shimen, Guanyuan; on the left and right parts: Tianshu, Daheng, Daimai; on the lower limbs: Zusanli.

The above methods are for your reference.