Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are "four" causes of fatigue and fatigue

Modern people are busy with work, have high pressure in life, and eat irregularly. Many people will suffer from fatigue symptoms. Under normal circumstances, the human body is tired and can adjust after a short rest. If you find that you have been feeling weak for a long time, especially lazy, and it still persists after resting, you should pay attention to it and consider whether there is something wrong with your body.

According to experts, when many people feel weak and lack energy, they think that they are malnourished and should take supplements. In fact, this idea is wrong. Modern people’s living standards are not low. Chicken, duck, and fish are all Although you can afford to eat, the reason for feeling tired is often not due to insufficient nutrition, but problems with the utilization and metabolism of nutrients. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there are generally four causes of fatigue: qi deficiency, dampness, stagnation of liver qi, and blood deficiency.

Qi deficiency

Qi deficiency that causes fatigue is mostly caused by spleen deficiency. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is responsible for transporting food and water, transporting the food and water entering the stomach into water and grain essence, providing nutritional raw materials for Qi, blood, body fluids, fluids, and spirit to nourish our internal organs, meridians, and bone marrow. A weak spleen and stomach will cause weakness in the limbs and lack of energy. People with spleen deficiency are often accompanied by symptoms such as abdominal distension, easy diarrhea, loss of appetite, and a sallow complexion. Women may also experience symptoms such as abnormal leucorrhea and irregular menstruation. Simple spleen deficiency will cause the symptoms of unformed stool, but it is easy to flush and there will be no sticky stool.

In daily life, overeating, eating too much greasy food, unclean food, irregular diet, eating too much raw and cold food, etc. These eating habits will harm the spleen and stomach and cause spleen deficiency.

Therefore, people with spleen deficiency and weakness should pay attention to regular work and rest, develop good living habits, try to eat as lightly as possible, eat less fatty, sweet and thick food, and eat some refined meat appropriately. At the same time, eat foods that strengthen the spleen and stomach in moderation, such as yam. Huaiyam has the effects of tonifying the spleen and stomach, replenishing the lungs and promoting fluid production. It can treat damage to the spleen and stomach in the middle scorch, nourish weakness, remove cold and heat evil spirits, replenish qi and strength, grow muscles, and nourish kidney yin. In addition, lotus seeds also have the effect of nourishing the spleen, but patients with spleen deficiency should remove the lotus seeds when eating lotus seeds, because the heart of lotus seeds purges fire and is relatively cold, so it is not suitable for people with spleen deficiency. If in addition to fatigue, you are also accompanied by lack of concentration, you can use Codonopsis pilosula or ginseng slices to make tea. When using ginseng, be careful to remove the ginseng heads.

If the stool is sticky and difficult to flush out, you should consider the possibility of spleen deficiency and dampness. In addition to fatigue, spleen deficiency and dampness are often accompanied by a feeling of heaviness on the body, as if being wrapped in something, and the tongue coating is thicker and greasy. In this case, in addition to strengthening the spleen, we must also take into account the elimination of dampness. In terms of dietary therapy, raw coix seeds and fried coix seeds can be used together. Raw coix seeds strengthen the spleen, and fried coix seeds remove dampness.

Moisture

Heavy moisture can also cause symptoms of fatigue. Common symptoms are dizziness, heavy and weak limbs, and often feeling like one does not get enough sleep.

"Huangdi Neijing" says that "dampness is heavy in turbidity". According to this characteristic, generally speaking, people with heavy moisture tend to be "heavy, turbid, and slow" both physically and mentally, such as feeling inexplicably sleepy, feeling sticky in the mouth, and feeling heavy in the body. These are all manifestations of moisture secretly growing in the body.

As an "evil", moisture is most likely to affect the spleen and stomach. If there is a problem with the spleen and stomach, "moisture" is most often produced. It can be said that moisture and the spleen and stomach are inseparable from each other. Influence, cause and effect. The spleen deficiency mentioned earlier is accompanied by dampness. Spleen deficiency comes first, and moisture is derived later due to spleen deficiency. There is also a situation where water and dampness invade the spleen, which means too much moisture in the body leads to insufficient transportation and transformation of the spleen.

To remove dampness, we must first distinguish where “dampness” comes from. Some moisture comes from outside, such as humid climate environment, rain, long-term immersion in water, etc. This is an external attack of moisture. If the heavy moisture is initially caused by "external dampness", the main symptoms will be body soreness, dizziness, etc. To deal with external moisture, try to change the humid environment. In addition, you should also pay attention to drying yourself in time after exercising, drying yourself in time after taking a bath, and do not suddenly take a cold shower after sweating.

There is also "internal dampness", which is different from "external dampness". It is caused by eating too much cold food, etc., which affects the function of the spleen. If it is caused by "internal dampness", the main symptoms are abdominal distension, diarrhea, and poor digestion of food. In terms of diet, you can use red bean barley porridge, winter melon soup, etc.

Stagnation of liver qi

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that stagnation of liver qi can also easily affect the function of the spleen and stomach. The function of the spleen is inhibited, resulting in insufficient production of qi and blood in the body, and can also cause fatigue. In addition to fatigue, patients with liver qi stagnation may also experience symptoms such as depression, irritability, anxiety and tension, swelling and pain in both ribs, and in women, irregular menstruation.

To treat liver qi stagnation, the first step is to regulate the liver, and then appropriately nourish the spleen. From the perspective of daily health care, patients with liver qi stagnation should pay attention to regulating their emotions. They can appropriately choose a way that they can accept to relax their body and mind, such as doing some soothing outdoor exercises, such as yoga and Tai Chi. Wait for relaxation and stress reduction. As the mood relaxes and the liver qi becomes smoother, the symptoms will be relieved to a certain extent.

From the perspective of dietary therapy, you can use roses to soak in water. If you have symptoms of heat and are prone to getting angry, in addition to using roses, you can also add a little bit of feverfew. If you have spleen deficiency at the same time, you can add raw sun-dried ginseng slices or Codonopsis pilosula slices to the tea when making tea.

Blood loss

There is another kind of fatigue caused by blood loss. Patients with blood loss are often afraid of the cold and lack of energy. Women have irregular menstruation, light menstruation, dysmenorrhea, or their stomachs feel very cold. . For fatigue mainly due to blood loss, you can use angelica, ginger and mutton soup to replenish qi and blood. Angelica sinensis and ginger nourish the blood, activate blood and dispel cold, while mutton warms and replenishes essence. This medicinal diet warms yang, nourishes blood and dispels cold. However, patients who are prone to getting angry or have symptoms such as sore throat and red tongue are not suitable to use this kind of warm and tonic medicinal diet.