What causes spleen deficiency and what are the clinical manifestations of spleen deficiency?

The so-called spleen deficiency is a term in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It refers to a series of pathological phenomena and symptoms of spleen physiological dysfunction caused by spleen deficiency. It includes syndromes such as spleen qi deficiency, spleen yang deficiency, sinking of middle qi, and spleen failure to regulate blood. So what are the symptoms of spleen deficiency in life?

Clinical manifestations of spleen deficiency

Spleen deficiency syndrome refers to a disease caused by spleen weakness. The condition is relatively complicated, with main clinical manifestations such as vomiting, diarrhea, edema, bleeding, amenorrhea, leucorrhea, cold limbs, and excessive salivation in children.

1. Spleen deficiency

Abdominal distension, poor appetite, worse distension after eating, limb fatigue, tiredness, fatigue, shortness of breath, 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, cold body and timid energy, cold limbs, dull or swollen face, scanty urine or abundant and clear white leucorrhea, and slippery white tongue coating.

3. The middle qi sinks

In addition to the symptoms of spleen deficiency, there are clinical manifestations of qi deficiency, such as chronic diarrhea, rectal prolapse, uterine prolapse, etc.

4. Spleen fails to regulate blood

In addition to the symptoms of spleen deficiency, there are clinical manifestations of chronic bleeding, such as menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, bloody stool, epistaxis, subcutaneous hemorrhage, etc. In addition to bleeding, there will be some symptoms of spleen deficiency.

Causes of Spleen Deficiency

The spleen belongs to the earth in the five elements, and is the most yin among the yin and yang of the five internal organs. The spleen is responsible for transportation and transformation, regulating blood, raising the clear, and distributing the essence of water and grain. It is the "source of qi and blood production." After birth, all organs and tissues rely on the essence of water and grain produced by the spleen for nourishment, so the spleen is called the "foundation of acquired constitution." It, together with the stomach, meat, lips, mouth, etc., constitutes the spleen system. The spleen function is weak and the biochemical source is insufficient due to reasons such as spleen deficiency, irregular diet, emotional factors, imbalance between work and rest, spleen damage caused by medicine or food, or long-term residence of dampness in patients with chronic kidney disease, which damages the spleen. The spleen plays a very important role in the digestion and absorption of food, so almost all gastrointestinal diseases can occur or be accompanied by spleen deficiency.

1. Spleen deficiency

It is mostly due to improper diet, excessive fatigue, or long-term worry, which damages the spleen and earth, or insufficient resistance and weak constitution.

2. Spleen Yang Deficiency

It is mostly caused by the further development of spleen deficiency, or may be caused by eating disorders, overeating of raw and cold food, or too much cold medicine, which damages spleen yang, or insufficient kidney yang, weakening of life gate fire, and failure of fire to generate earth.

3. The middle qi sinks

Zhongqi also refers to temper. When the spleen qi rises, it transports the essence of water and grain to the lungs to nourish other organs. If the spleen is weak and the qi sinks, symptoms such as chronic diarrhea, rectal prolapse, and uterine prolapse may occur.

4. Spleen fails to regulate blood

If the spleen is weak and cannot retain blood, blood will not circulate through the meridians.