What do Chinese medicine think is the main physiological function of spleen?

(1) Spleen governs digestion of food, diet and transportation of Shui Gu. Diet enters the stomach and is digested by both the stomach and the spleen. Shui Gu essence (nutrients) is transported to the whole body through the transport function of the spleen, which means that the spleen has the functions of digestion, absorption and transport. "Spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow" and "the source of qi and blood biochemistry". If the spleen loses its health, there will be symptoms such as bloating, constipation and loss of appetite. The transport of spleen also includes the metabolism and transport of water, and the spleen loses its health and often causes edema. The transportation and transformation of the spleen mainly depends on the function of the spleen, and the spleen is mainly ascending, which means that the spleen has the function of clearing heat. It refers to the rise of nutrition. If the temper does not rise or fall, it will cause rectal prolapse and sagging of internal organs (stomach and uterus).

(2) Dominating the blood: Unity means controlling and being controlled. Blood running in blood vessels depends entirely on the control of temper. If you have a weak temper, you will lose control. Blood will lose its downward trajectory and overflow, such as bloody stool, metrorrhagia, subcutaneous purple spots and other symptoms.

(3) Main muscles and limbs: The spleen transports nutrients to the muscles and limbs of the whole body through transport, which makes the inspector full and powerful. When the spleen loses health, the muscles are weak and the limbs are weak.

(4) Began to understand the mouth, "its flowers are in the lips": Shui Gu's diet enters from the mouth, and the spleen is responsible for digestion, absorption and transportation, which is unified and coordinated with the mouth. Conversely, the color of lips can also reflect the rise and fall of qi and blood of the spleen.

2. The performance of temper foot:

(1) Full of temper and plenty of meat.

"Spleen governs muscles". Full temper, rich and fresh muscles, vivid and energetic face. Some people are not beautiful, but they are still cute. This is what the common people say, with "love human flesh" on their faces. Because the qi and blood in human muscles are smooth due to sufficient temper, the muscles are rich and elastic, while the facial muscles of people with weak temper are dull, and the muscles of the whole body are sour, lazy, weak and even atrophied.

(2) full-tempered, not bloated face.

Women's faces are white and red, which is normal and can be described as "the beauty of wealth", which is the aesthetic standard held by a considerable number of men. For example, the plump beauty represented by Yang Guifei in the Tang Dynasty was the embodiment of most men's aesthetic standards for women at that time. Except fat, most of them are swollen. "Spleen governs the transport of water and dampness" and transports the water in the body. Deficiency of spleen and dereliction of duty can lead to edema. "Edema caused by kidney deficiency has legs and feet, and edema caused by spleen deficiency is on the face and whole body.

There are two reasons for spleen deficiency; One is eating, and the other is thinking. Eating more cold food, gluttony fruit and overeating will hurt the spleen; Thinking too much may also hurt the spleen. Before the college entrance examination, many children had diarrhea because of spleen deficiency and excessive brain use.

Sufficient temper can make people's facial edema outline clear, skin color white and red, and body fat gradually disappear. This is the truth that "people should be thin and not hungry".

(3) Good temper and refreshing spirit

Qi and blood flow through the muscles of people with full temper, and people's spirit does it one brace up; People with spleen deficiency are depressed. Many mental patients or people with mental disabilities are related to spleen deficiency.

(4) Full temper and rosy lips

Many modern girls only know how to cover their dim and rough lips with lipstick, but they don't know that as long as they adjust their spleen, they can make their lips naturally rosy.

"Spleen opens in the mouth, and its glory lies in the lips; The spleen is in the mouth, and the spleen knows the whole grain. " People with full temper have rich and rosy lips, and the exhaled air has no peculiar smell. Eating whole grains can taste the fragrance. Weak-tempered lips are white and rough. If the cold condenses on the spleen, the lips are purple or black, and the exhaled breath is strong, which makes people dodge and tasteless.

(5) There is no ecchymosis under the skin of spleen-qi foot.

"Spleen governs blood, so that blood runs smoothly in blood vessels and does not overflow". When the spleen is weak and can't control the blood, the blood overflows the blood vessels, which is called "blood does not follow the meridian", and some people will bleed under the skin and form ecchymosis; There will be nostril bleeding; Some people will have "sweat", that is, the sweat that flows out is red; Some women will have menstrual bleeding.

(6) Spleen-invigorating and stomach-regulating essentials

Spleen and stomach are exterior and interior. The spleen is equivalent to the commander in chief, and the stomach is equivalent to the workshop. Both are indispensable, but their habits are different. The spleen likes dryness and hates dryness, and the temper rises. People's qi and blood are full, and stomach qi is decreased, so that people can successfully complete digestion and absorption. Whether the spleen and stomach function is normal or not, the symptoms are as follows:

(a) when the spleen is weak, the lips are white, and when it is heavy, there is no blood; Stomach fire, dry mouth, heavy crack.

(2) Spleen deficiency for a long time leads to atrophy of the upper gingiva, and stomach qi weakness for a long time leads to atrophy of the lower gingiva.

(c) Spleen deficiency with sparse loose stool, severe diarrhea, stomach fire and dry stool.

(d) Limbs are not warm when the temper is weak, and people are hot and dry when the stomach fire is strong.

(e) Deficiency of stomach yang, epigastric pain, vomiting and salivation.