Nourishing Stomach and Spleen

In medicine, the physiological functions of the spleen are transportation and transformation, ascending the clear and governing blood. If function of the transportation and transformation and ascending the clear of the spleen neglect its duty, it will cause syndrome of internal stagnation of fluid-dampness, decline of digestive function, spleen failing to manage blood as well as lucid yang failing to rise. Thus, people will get abdominal distension or abdominal pain, reduced food intake, loose stool, general edema, abdominal ptosis and haemorrhage. Gastrosia often have four main pathological changes, such as, disturbance of maturity function and receiving food, rising of stomach qi and adverse rising of gastric qi. It will appear low food intake, abdominal swelling or pain, nausea, hiccup and eructation. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that the spleen opens from the mouth, if the dysfunction of the spleen, people will have tasteless, odorless, greasy mouth, sweet taste, and bitter taste. Thus abnormalities affect the person’s appetite. In order to nourish spleen and stomach, people can often choose to eat food with tonifying middle-Jiao and Qi, invigorating the spleen for eliminating spleen dampness and help digestion for strengthening the stomach.

Chinese Yam山药

There are some functions that supplementing qi and nourishing Yin, invigorating the spleen, lung and kidney as well as treating spontaneous emission and leukorrhagia. This product contains more nutrients, which is easy to digest and absorb. The drug has middle in property. tonify without causing stagnation and enriching but not slimy. It is especially suitable for people with chronic illness or weakness after illness to be nursed back to health.

Semen dolichoris

There are functions about invigorating spleen, regulating the middle warmer and resolving dampness. It especially is suitable for people with low food intake, loose stool, downward drive for dampness and leukorrhagia due to deficiency of the spleen, which caused by damp abundance for splenic asthenia and abnormal transportation and transformation. It often use to treat vomiting and diarrhea due to summer-heat and damp with acu-injury of diaphragm and incoordination between the spleen and the stomach. For eating, people should fully heat.

Jujube

There are some functions that tonifying middle-Jiao and Qi, nourishing blood with relieving uneasiness of mind and body tranquilization and ease drug properties. Jujube not only can protect liver, enhance the muscle strength and increase the weight, but also have high contents of vitamin. Thus, Chinese-date have a good reputation “natural vitamin pills”. Due to its good effect on nourishing and tonifying, people all like it. In folk, there is an old saying that “ eat three Chinese-date every day and you will never be old”.

Coix Seed

There are some functions that clearing damp and promoting diuresis, tonifying spleen, eliminating impediment and clearing away heat and eliminating pus. It also is a tonic food for people with debility in illness or after illness, because it has rich vitamin and mineral substance. This product can be used for nourishing and treating, but it has abirritant function. Thus, after people taking for a period, it will have good effect. Due to this product is rich in vitamin B, it is effective in treating and preventing beri-beri. Often eat this product to keep the skin exquisite, eliminate acne and pigmentation and so on.

山楂Hawthorn

There are some functions that relieving dyspepsia, promoting the circulation of qi and eliminating stasis to activate blood circulation. Modern pharmacological studies confirmed that this product can increase the secretion of digestive enzymes in the stomach, promote digestion and absorption of food. It contains lipase, which can promote the decomposition of fat to easily digest the meat. Thus, it is the medicine for digesting stagnation of fat meat product. This product also has the effect on increasing coronary blood flow, expanding blood vessels, reducing blood pressure and lowering blood lipids. For people with coronary heart disease, hypertension and dyslipidemia, it has better curative effect.