Chinese patent medicine for internal and external treatment of spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness

We know that the advantage of traditional Chinese medicine is that the drugs have few side effects and good therapeutic effects. So what kind of medicine should people with weak spleen and stomach take in life? What are the symptoms of spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness?

There are people with this kind of physique:

Slender body, indigestion, fear of cold, cold hands and feet. In the summer, others enjoy using the air conditioner, but they feel cold as soon as they get inside. It is even worse in the winter. They have to wear many more clothes than others, and will shiver at the slightest breeze. If their stomachs growl, they will rush to the bathroom with their pants pulled up.

The stool is clear and watery, without any odor. There is always a feeling that the stool cannot be completely discharged each time. The patient has to go for the second time soon after the first one. In severe cases, the stool often continues to flow. The stomach likes warmth and pressure, and holding a hot water bottle in front of the stomach is the most comfortable.

I eat very little, and sometimes I eat too much but can't digest it. I have stomach pain and feel cold. These symptoms are particularly severe in winter.

When checking the tongue for pulse, the tongue is often bloodless and sometimes slippery; you cannot feel the pulse when pressing lightly, you need to press hard to feel it slightly, but it is also relatively slow.

The above symptoms are all manifestations of spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness, and deficiency and coldness refers to insufficient Yang Qi. All parts of the human body need the warming effect of Yang Qi to promote the normal operation of the body, just like cooking requires sufficient fire, the spleen and stomach also need sufficient Yang Qi to digest food. If the Yang Qi is not enough to decompose and digest the food, it cannot provide enough energy for the human body, and the muscles and limbs will not be nourished.

Fuzi Lizhong Pills for spleen and stomach deficiency and cold

When you experience the above symptoms of spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness, you must not forget to take Fuzi Lizhong Pills.

Fu Zi Li Zhong Wan is composed of five herbs: processed aconite, dried ginger, ginseng, white atractylodes, and roasted licorice. It is based on the Li Zhong Wan mentioned in Treatise on Febrile Diseases with the addition of processed aconite. Both are famous prescriptions.

Among the medicines in Lizhong Pills, dried ginger is a special medicine for treating stomach cold. Soon after taking the medicine, you will feel hot and spicy in your stomach, which makes you feel very comfortable; ginseng replenishes qi and strengthens the spleen; dried ginger and ginseng are combined, one warms and the other nourishes, warming is against cold, and nourishing is against deficiency, which is just right to deal with the symptoms of deficiency and cold in the spleen and stomach.

In addition, the spleen likes dryness and hates dampness. If its yang energy is insufficient, damp and turbid energy may take the opportunity to occupy the spleen, just like damp moss is likely to grow on a wall that is not facing the sun. Therefore, it is also necessary to eliminate the damp and turbid air, and Atractylodes macrocephala is used here. In addition to drying dampness, Atractylodes macrocephala also has the function of regulating and transforming spleen qi, which means making the spleen active again. The three medicines, one warming, one tonic and one drying, namely warming the middle yang, tonic the spleen, and drying up dampness and turbidity, together with the harmonizing effect of roasted licorice, play the role of regulating the middle burner and strengthening the spleen and stomach, so it is called Lizhong Pills.

Later generations of Chinese medicine practitioners added processed aconite to this prescription, and it became Fuzi Lizhong Pills.

Aconite is a very warming and hot medicine. It has a strong power to warm the middle (jiao) and dispel cold, and it can also warm the kidney yang. People who are afraid of cold as mentioned above may have congenital deficiencies, so it is good to use aconite.

External treatment and food supplement for spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness

For those with weak spleen and stomach, you can grind a few Fuzi Lizhong Pills or Guifu Lizhong Pills, add appropriate amount of ginger juice and mix well, apply it to the navel, and fix it with analgesic plaster, which can also play a good role in warming the stomach.