Spleen-stomach syndrome:introduction of its pathological reasons,common syndromes and syndromes from miscellaneous diseases.
✵Spleen-stomach syndrome:some common spleen stomach syndromes are introduced.
Spleen-stomach syndrome.
Ancient classical work Su Wen (the Plain Questions) explains that "The spleen and stomach are the barn organs, and the five flavors come out."
Ancient herbalist Li Dongyuan explained in his famous classical works: Spleen and stomach is sufficient, one is good at food and is fat, take more food and is not hungry, one is not hungry after meal time; spleen and stomach are weak, take less food and thin, take much food and is easy to hurt, is easy to hunger after meal time, or although one is fat but four limbs (arms and legs) could not lift. This is the condition that spleen is excessive and pathogenic Qi is also excessive. Or appetite is good, but four limbs are thin, the spleen is strong, and pathogenic fire is also strong. The strong or weakness of the spleen and stomach are known.
Internal reasons: the stomach could govern the food intake, the spleen is in charge of transportation and transformation. If one is hungry or full, irregularity of cold and summer, then the stomach is hurt. Worrying and thinking, anger, and overlaboring hurt the spleen. Both stomach and spleen are hurt, one has nausea, swelling and fullness, yellow complexion and lassitude, one has indigestion and other syndromes.
External symptoms: one has stomach disease and is short of breath, lacking spirit and generates great fever, sometimes the heat flows upward, and burns the face; one has a spleen disease, lassitude and somnolence, could not collect arms and legs, borborygmus (sounding in intestines), diarrhea. Spleen and stomach disease, bone lacks strength and is powerless, one's feet cannot step on the ground, and one gets hurt gradually from the interior to the physical, day by day.
Additional explanation on symptoms of spleen syndromes:
Flaccid paralysis of limbs (weakness of arms and legs), the spleen is in disease, one's arms and legs are weak.
Edema of head and feet: there is edema of the head and feet, dampness retained in the arms and legs, around the palpebra ( upper side and underpart of the eyelid).
Obstruction in the nine body orifices or openings: nasal stuffness, obtruction of external acoustic meatus (hearing loss), hypopsia (poor eyesight), difficulty in urination and defecation, etc.
Somnolence and somatic heaviness after taking food: after taking food, one often feels sleepy, and heaviness of the body.
Various types of spleen-stomach syndrome.
There are various types of spleen-stomach syndrome, these different types of spleen-stomach syndrome are introduced:
Seven modes of emotions stagnation, irregular diet (disorder of hunger and satiety ), rich fatty diet (greasy and surfeit flavour), generates phlegm and fire, and lead to splenic and gastric incoordination.
Improper diet or overstrain impairing the spleen
The cun and guan pulses are slippery and rapid, feeble, nausea (feel sick), thirst, not fond of food and drink, there is deficiency-fire in the stomach.
The cunkou pulse is moderate and weak, or slow and feeble, or empty and big, with vomiting and no appetite (does not take food), and there is deficiency-cold in the stomach, normally it is due to overtaking prescriptions of cold and cool.
The cunkou pulse is slippery and full, vomit and no appetite (does not take food), one is obese and has much stagnation (or depression), it belongs to dampness phlegm.
One often takes roasted meat and savoury (rich food), has much anger, the cunkou pulse is hollow, distention in the chest, fishiness in the mouth, or epigastric pain, the facial complexion is sallow, and there is stagnant blood in the stomach.
Lassitude of limbs (weakness of arms, legs), no appetite (does not take diet and drink), it is spleen deficiency.
The guan pulse is sunken and moderate, has appetite but indigestion, stagnant and retains under the heart, stuffiness in the chest and abdomen, ructus, acid regurgitation and odoriferous, it is food stagnation from spleen weakness.
After a chronic disease, or after emetic and purgative methods are applied, indigestion, pulse is choppy or wiry, feeble, it belongs to blood insufficiency of spleen Yin, body fluid can not make it moist, as a result, disorder of transformation and transportation.
If there is lassitude of limbs (weakness of arms and legs), a yellow facial complexion, heat in the core part of the hands, the pulse is large and feeble.
One has a chronic disease, no appetite (cannot take food), or indigestion, or takes over purgative herbs, as a result, the spleen and stomach are hurt.
Both the stomach and spleen are hurt, food intake, transformation and transportation all turns difficult, vomit or diarrhea, facial complexion is sallow, lassitude and lacking in strength.
One is at old age, chronic disease, incoordination between the spleen and the stomach, poor appetite, vomiting, or diarrhea.
An obese person suffers lassitude, incoordination between the spleen and the stomach, poor appetite, fullness and stuffiness, there is damp phlegm in the stomach.
Thin person has incoordination between the spleen and the stomach, disorder of transformation and transportation, constipation, dryness and thirst in mouth, full and stuffy under the heart, mostly belongs to blood deficiency.
If one has chronic disease, or innate timid and weak-willed, raw, cold, greasy diet hurts the spleen, deficiency, stuffiness, stuffiness in the chest and abdomen, and no appetite.
If one has a good appetite, slow in transportation and transformation.
One's stomach is weak and face is blue-green, facial complexion is white or pale yellow, coldness in hands, pulse is moderate.
After taking food, one feels lassitude and stuffy, with frequent urination, it is the sunkening of Promordial Qi.
Stuffiness in the diaphragm and no appetite, facial complexion is miserable, pulse is sunken, it is Qi stagnation.
References:
1.Spleen-stomach syndrome:introduction of its pathological reasons,common syndromes and syndromes from miscellaneous diseases.
✵Spleen-stomach syndrome:some common spleen stomach syndromes are introduced.
