How much spleen deficiency is due to liver depression?
If you want to tonify the spleen, have you asked the liver?
The liver is angry, and it is fierce; The spleen is gentle.
When the liver qi is too urgent, calm down and think objectively, and the liver qi will be eased immediately; When the spleen thinks and the qi is condensed, the liver is qi, and it is flushed away.
Therefore, the liver and spleen are mutually restrictive and interdependent.
When a person's liver qi is uncomfortable, the ability to excrete is reduced. The spleen and stomach have lost the help of liver qi, as if they have lost their partner, and they become sluggish (such as na) and have no energy to work.
This state of liver loss and spleen loss of health is called "liver depression and spleen deficiency".
Theoretically, if there is "liver depression and spleen deficiency", the problem may be in the liver or spleen.
If a person eats and drinks excessively, or overworks and exhausts the body, it will lead to liver loss and leakage due to loss of spleen health and dampness.
But in reality, in most cases, it is the liver that drags down the spleen.
Many diet, muscle, and stool problems related to the spleen can really be solved through the method of Wei Wei to save Zhao: to find the liver.
Because liver depression must affect the spleen. The liver suffers from evil qi, and it is often passed on to the person it is most likely to bully - the spleen.
Therefore, there is a great saying in traditional Chinese medicine: "Regulating the spleen but not the liver is equivalent to being blind!"
So, why is liver qi depressed?
Speaking of this, we can't help but sigh: it's not because of stress, bad mood, and sulking.
In traditional Chinese medicine terms, it is "unsatisfactory feelings, depressed anger hurts the liver", you can't get what you want, and you dare to be angry but don't dare to speak.
In the context of this era, it is not easy for us to be happy at any time, at work, in life, and worry about others. Especially in the workplace, sometimes they have to suppress themselves, resulting in liver depression and spleen deficiency.
This reason will not go away, it will continue to exist. But can we regulate it through some TCM methods?
Is it possible to drive the spirit out of the vicious circle of liver depression and spleen deficiency through physical and material methods?
How to tell if the liver is depressed and the spleen is deficient
First of all, let's see if it is really liver depression and spleen deficiency, and an easy way to judge liver depression and spleen deficiency is to look at the tongue.
△ The tongue is light, the tongue is fat, the tip of the tongue is round (water and moisture accumulate on the tip of the tongue, making the tip of the tongue round), there are tooth marks, and it is also a manifestation of liver depression and spleen dampness.
Main symptoms
(1) Loose stools, less abdominal distension and pain closely related to emotions;
(2) emotional anxiety or mental depression;
(3) Lack of food, fatigue and laziness, fatigue and fatigue.
secondary symptoms
fullness and pain near the two ribs; Stomach fullness; bitter mouth, dry throat; pharyngeal foreign body sensation; belching, pantothenic acid; bowel sounds, sagittal breath; pulses or slow; Insomnia, dreaminess.
△As long as one of the main symptoms (1), (2) and (3) is consistent, it can be concluded that it is liver depression and spleen deficiency. Generally, there will be secondary symptoms.
How to dredge liver depression
For people with liver depression, there must be many pain points in the acupuncture points of the liver and gallbladder meridians, start with the following acupuncture points and find them carefully, and knock them up after finding them.
Bile meridian: percussion, kneading, moxibustion shoulder well acupoint, Fengshi acupoint, hanging bell acupoint, foot crying acupoint.
Liver meridian: percussion, kneading, moxibustion Yin Bao acupoint, Taichong acupoint, Qimen acupoint.
Recommended medication: Shu liver and stomach pills, the name of Chinese patent medicine. It is a qi regulating agent, which has the effect of soothing the liver and relieving depression, and relieving stomach pain. It is mainly used for liver and stomach disharmony, fullness of the ribs, stomach pain, loss of appetite, hiccups and vomiting, and stool disorders.
Caution: Please take under the guidance of a physician
How to make up for spleen deficiency
For people with spleen deficiency, there must be stasis on the spleen and stomach meridians, check whether there are acids and pain points near the following acupuncture points.
Stomach meridian: percussion, kneading, moxibustion Jiguan acupoint, Liangqiu acupoint, Fenglong acupoint.
Spleen meridian: percussion, kneading, moxibustion acupoint, Sanyin Jiao acupoint, Taibai acupoint, Gongsun acupoint.
Acupressure:
It hurts to press the Taibai acupoint. And it's not very convenient, it's old enough to reach the feet.
There is a way: find 2 kidney beans (or white lentils, slightly larger white beans anyway), stick a band-aid to the position of Taibai's acupoint, and kick the beans with one foot and the other while watching TV, alternating kicks. Take it off before going to bed and throw it away.
Taibai acupoint is the original acupoint of the spleen meridian, and the effect of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the spleen is stronger than other acupuncture points.
Many friends have symptoms of spleen deficiency, for example, they always drool when they sleep at night (this is called the spleen not taking in, that is, the spleen can't absorb these fluids, and it flows out on its own); tooth marks on both sides of the tongue; bloating and indigestion after a short time after eating; The hands and feet are cold, and the blood circulation is not at the ends; Women have a leakage, menstruation is inexhaustible, and they can't be taken; Dizziness due to the lack of qi and blood in the head, and so on, are caused by the poor ability of the spleen to transport.
Although there are many symptoms of the spleen, all of them can be prevented by rubbing the Taibai acupoint. Because it is the original acupoint, it is in charge of various problems on the spleen meridian. There is a way to rub the Taibai acupoint, which is to use the inside of the thumb to rub it, so that the effect of strengthening the spleen is good.
In addition, rubbing the Taibai acupoint can also regulate blood sugar and treat diabetes.