The way to maintain health should be to regulate the spleen and stomach first

Traditional Chinese medicine calls the spleen and stomach the foundation of acquired constitution. Why? Because if we want to live a healthy life, we have to eat, and the food we eat needs the function of the spleen and stomach to be digested and absorbed by the body. If there is a problem with the function of the spleen and stomach, it will directly affect the absorption of nutrients, thus affecting human health. Therefore, the way to maintain health should be to regulate the spleen and stomach first.

Modern people generally have poor spleen and stomach, and do not pay special attention to maintaining their spleen and stomach. Many young people like to stay cool, love to eat ice cream and drink cold drinks. Many white-collar workers have irregular diets and often eat fast food or big meals outside. I don’t know how much burden all kinds of greasy foods have added to the spleen and stomach. Once the spleen and stomach are weak, the body lacks energy, and all kinds of problems, big and small, will come knocking. Some people feel bloated after eating a little, some people have a strong appetite but only gain weight without increasing their blood, some people suffer from constipation, and some people have diarrhea. These are all caused by spleen and stomach dysfunction.

Keep your spleen healthy all year round

Among the four seasons of the year, spring is the season for the rise of Yang energy, which corresponds to the liver. If the Yang energy fails to rise in spring or rises too much, it will cause damage to the liver. Liver disease will damage the spleen and stomach, causing spleen and stomach lesions. Summer is hot and rainy, and the long summer corresponds to the spleen. The heat can easily combine with dampness to invade the spleen and stomach, leading to dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach and multiple intestinal diseases. People suffer from diarrhea far more often in summer than in other seasons, which is actually a sign of damage to the spleen and stomach. Autumn is the season of dryness, which corresponds to the lungs. The lungs control the same qi as the spleen and stomach. In early autumn, the heat and dampness have not yet dissipated, and the spleen and stomach functions have not yet recovered, so they are easily injured. The weather is cold in winter, which affects the kidneys. The cold weather damages the kidneys and affects the spleen and stomach. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach can be damaged in all four seasons, and the spleen and stomach must be kept healthy all year round to ensure the normal functions of the five internal organs.

Eating yellow food can protect the spleen

According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, people with spleen deficiency can eat more yellow and sweet foods, such as corn, pumpkin, sweet potato, soybean, millet, etc.

In addition, one of the five joys of the spleen is "hush". People with weak spleen can make "hush" sounds frequently, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen.