Causes of damp-heat in the spleen and stomach

Nowadays, many people have improper diet. Heavy life pressure and irregular work and rest have caused great harm to our bodies. Many people have dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach, which requires our attention and active treatment of the disease. There are many causes of damp-heat in the spleen and stomach, and we need targeted treatment. So, what are the main causes of spleen and stomach dampness and heat?

There are many symptoms when damp-heat in the spleen and stomach occurs. Patients will feel tired, heavy, and have loose stools. If the disease is not treated in time, multiple diseases such as the digestive tract and urinary system may occur, which requires our attention.

What is the cause of damp-heat in the spleen and stomach? It is caused by external evil. Due to the physiological characteristics of the spleen and stomach, dampness and dryness can easily invade the spleen and stomach. The spleen is moist earth, and is the "area affected by moisture". Dampness is most likely to damage the spleen; the stomach is dry earth, and it likes moisture and hates dryness, so it is prone to dryness diseases. Dryness is a yang heat evil, and severe dryness will cause heat. The combination of stomach heat and spleen dampness is damp heat. Other external evils of the Six Evils, such as exogenous wind-heat, can also cause dampness-heat when the spleen is weak and dysfunctional and there is internal dampness. Just as Xue Shengbai said, "When the Taiyang meridian is injured internally, dampness and fluid accumulate, and external pathogens are introduced again, the internal and external factors attract each other, so the disease becomes damp-heat." At the same time, external pathogens invade the lungs, causing chest tightness and cough, and abnormal rise and fall of Qi, which can also damage the weak spleen and stomach, causing dampness to be generated internally, which accumulates and turns into heat, forming damp-heat.

Improper diet and uncontrolled eating are the most common causes of damage to the spleen and stomach. "If you eat too much, your spleen and stomach will be damaged." Drinking too much, overeating, eating too much fatty and sweet food, unclean food, and irregular eating habits can easily damage the spleen and stomach, causing food stagnation, dampness stagnation, and qi stagnation, which can all turn into heat over time. The nature of alcohol itself is "hot in air and damp in substance". Qi stagnation is also an important factor in the accumulation of water and dampness. Fatty, sweet and greasy foods have the characteristics of generating dampness and promoting heat. It can be seen that many factors of improper diet can become the cause of the formation of spleen and stomach damp-heat syndrome. Although the stomach likes moisture and hates dryness, the formation of spleen and stomach damp-heat is also directly related to the stomach. Food is first taken in by the stomach. Clinically, symptoms of abnormal gastrointestinal absorption such as fullness in the stomach, poor appetite, and nausea are often seen first. The spleen and stomach are both the center of the body. They coordinate and cooperate physiologically to jointly complete the function of absorption and transformation. Pathologically, they influence each other. Therefore, the relationship between damp-heat syndrome and the stomach is inseparable, so it is called spleen-stomach damp-heat syndrome.

The above content is an introduction to the causes of damp-heat in the spleen and stomach. I hope it can be of some help to you. Unhealthy lifestyles such as smoking, drinking, and overeating can cause great harm to the body. We should pay attention to developing scientific living habits in our lives, and at the same time pay attention to regulating our body's diet and be more responsible for our body.