Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "the kidney is the foundation of ingenitality", and "the spleen and stomach are the foundation of incubation". The ancients attached great importance to the status of the spleen, the spleen belongs to the soil in the five elements, and has the nature of "carrying things" and "generating all things", and the stomach is in charge of the digestion and absorption of food, as well as the transmission of nutrients, water and other processes, so as to meet the needs of various tissues and organs of human life activities, so it is just right to describe it as "the foundation of the day after tomorrow".
The spleen and stomach are both the main organs for digesting food, and they are related to each other and form the inside and outside. The stomach is the main recipient, and the spleen is mainly transported, and together they complete the task of digesting, absorbing and transporting nutrients. When the stomach descends, the water valley has to go down, which is conducive to digestion; The spleen is ascending, and the subtlety of the water valley can be infused throughout the body.
In order to maintain life activities, people need to consume a certain amount of water every day, but due to various reasons, especially the function responsible for transporting water and liquid, there are some problems, and it is easy to produce abnormal water, we can also call it sick water, bad water, these water is what we call water drinking. The location of water drinking will be different, and the symptoms will be different. Drinking water on the table, we may feel heavy and edema; If the water is drunk in it, it is manifested as diarrhea; If there is water in the stomach, it may manifest as palpitations, and the stomach is beeping; Drinking water may cause dizziness, shortness of breath, etc.; There is a lot of water in it, which may manifest as dizziness and high blood pressure; If the water stops in the joints of the limbs, it may manifest as joint pain that is difficult to heal; The combination of water and heat may manifest as damp heat and phlegm heat; The combination of water and cold, that is, what we usually call cold drink, cold and wet.
As the saying goes, "Nine out of ten people have stomach problems." This was said by Li Dongyuan, a medical expert, who once wrote a famous medical book "On the Spleen and Stomach", which is to emphasize that most people have spleen and stomach problems. According to my many years of clinical experience, spleen and stomach problems are mostly caused by deficiency of cold, and the spleen and stomach of deficiency and cold are usually mixed with water and drink, because the spleen and stomach mainly transport water, and it is easy to have sick water and bad water if it does not function well. At this time, you need to use citrus soup to help.
Citrus aurantium soup only has two flavors of Jishi and Atractylodes, which originates from Zhang Zhongjing's "Jin Kui Yaolu", takes 15 grams of Quanshi, 10 grams of Atractylodes, and adds 150 ml of water for decoction, and the juice can be boiled until half of it is left. Boil it again in the same way, mix the juice boiled twice, and drink it once a day in the morning and evening, drinking 50~60 ml each time.
The amount of atractylodes is less than twice that of atractylodes, which strengthens the spleen and improves water, and is used for spleen deficiency caused by fruit. The two drugs are used for each other, and the elimination is greater than the supplement. The traditional qi machine is one rise and one drop, which is in line with the physiological characteristics of the spleen and stomach. Doctors of all generations have chosen this prescription to treat stomach pain and suffocation, and the effect is very good. Clinical practice has proved that this formula can be used for gastric pain and ruffian syndrome that affect spleen loss and health accumulation in the heart of water and food, and has a good effect on most chronic gastritis, gastroduodenal ulcer, gastrointestinal disorders, gastric prolapse, constipation and other symptoms.
In the era when Zhang Zhongjing lived, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the heroes were divided, and they fought for many years. Coupled with the fact that the spleen and stomach do play a vital role in the human body, how important is it? The spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow. Therefore, Zhang Zhongjing pays special attention to the maintenance of the spleen and stomach, and many of his prescriptions are based on the spleen. Zhang Zhongjing has a recipe called Citrus Aurantium Soup, which is very simple, using only two herbs, Citrus aurantium and Atractylodes.
Citrus aurantium soup: 7 pieces of citrus aurantium, 30 grams of atractylodes, decoction in water. This recipe, in the Jin Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty physician Zhang Yuan changed it again, added lotus leaves, wrapped the lotus leaves in citrus aurantium and atractylodes, and steamed them with rice, called citrus aurantium lotus leaf rice. Friends who don't want to drink decoction can also make citrus lotus leaf rice. The method is as follows: 9 grams of citrus aurantium, 15 grams of atractylodes, 1 lotus leaf, and 100 grams of rice. Beat the atractylodes and citrus aurantium into a fine powder, mix it into the steamed rice, wrap it in lotus leaves, and steam it together. For the choice of lotus leaves, fresh lotus leaves or dried lotus leaves can be used, as long as they are not yellow. What is the effect of citrus soup or lotus leaf rice? First, strengthen the spleen. I have no appetite, I can't eat, or I feel full after eating a little, and my stomach is swollen and uncomfortable when I eat again. If you can't eat, your spleen is not good, and your spleen is the main desire. This desire naturally includes appetite as well. If you eat a little bit, you have a bad stomach and have gas in your stomach. In addition to poor diet, such people often have fatigue and shortness of breath, and the older generation often says that people are iron and rice is steel. I can't eat, where does the strength come from? At this time, you might as well drink a little citrus soup. Big guy, remember, there are two key points for a good spleen and stomach, one is that the spleen must be able to rise, and the other is that the stomach qi must be able to fall. There are rises and falls, which means that your spleen and stomach qi are smooth and orderly.
Citrus aurantium soup, with atractylodes to replenish qi and strengthen the spleen, atractylodes is fragrant, the color is yellow, these external images are the image of the earth, all belong to the characteristics of the earth, and the temperament of atractylodes is warm, not anxious or dry, and the temper is very compatible. Atractylodes can raise the temper here, and the appetite will be opened. Look at the citrus aurantium again. "Yan Zi Makes Chu" said: "If an orange is born in Huainan, it is an orange, and if it is born in Huaibei, it is an orange." "The citrus aurantium here refers to the citrus aurantium. Citrus aurantium grows really like a small orange, the orange is sweet and juicy, although the taste of citrus is not good, it is a good hand in medicine. Don't look at its small size, it is sharp and powerful, so Chinese medicine also calls it a chest hammer. Citrus aurantium, the taste is bitter, bitterness can fall, can break the stuffiness and turbidity of the entire digestive tract, and then go all the way down. Isn't it easy to have a bloated stomach? Citrus aurantium is practical, a mouth is bitter, bitter and fragrant, after drinking, a few farts, turbidity dispersed, the feeling of bloating is gone.