Many people are very familiar with kidney deficiency, but little is known about spleen deficiency, but what we do not know is that this spleen deficiency is more terrible than kidney deficiency! Chinese medicine believes that “the spleen is the origin of the day, the source of blood and vitality”, the health of the spleen or not it has a great impact on the health of the body. So in order to be healthy and not get sick, it is crucial to maintain a good spleen!
So, how can you tell if your spleen is deficient? You may want to try this self-test method.
Look in the mirror and see your tongue. If the tongue is thin, the tongue is red, and the tongue coating is very little or even a little flaky, then it is Spleen Yin deficiency.
If the tongue is on the fat side and has teeth marks, and the tongue coating is somewhat greasy, then it is a Spleen Yang deficiency.
For these two types of spleen deficiency, we recommend suitable recipes for each of them.
Spleen Yin deficiency
People with yin deficiency have symptoms such as fear of heat, dry mouth and sore throat, dry stools, less fluid on the tongue, night sweats, and back pain. To alleviate this you can eat more foods that nourish Yin and produce fluids, such as lily, cucumber, pear, kiwi, and silver fungus.
Here we recommend that you often drink silver fungus and lotus seed soup to nourish blood and nourish yin and regulate spleen and yin deficiency.
Ingredients: half silver fungus, 5-10 lotus seeds, sugar.
Directions: Peel and remove the core of lotus seeds, wash and soak the silver fungus, add water to boil them together and cook until the soup becomes sticky, then add sugar to taste.
Spleen Yang deficiency
People with Yang deficiency have symptoms such as coldness in the intestines, diarrhea, bloating, weakness, and unfavorable urination. Eating foods that are warm and strengthen the spleen, such as japonica rice, yam and red dates, can strengthen the spleen and benefit the qi to regulate yang deficiency.
You may also want to try red dates and yam porridge, often drink can play a spleen and stomach, moisten the lungs to stop the cough effect.
Ingredients: 10 red dates, long yam half, a handful of rice, water.
The first thing is to wash the rice, remove the core of the red dates and wash them, peel the yam and cut it into slices. The second is to add water to the three together and cook over low heat until the rice is rotten into porridge.
These two therapeutic recipes you have learned, the spleen deficiency of friends must often drink Yo!