In Chinese medicine the functions of pancreas and spleen are merged into a single system. This system controls the normal functioning of digestive processes, maintains the blood in vessels, and controls the muscles and limbs condition. The mirror of this system state is the mouth cavity. The intellectual work capacity, speed of thought depends on the operation of this canal. The causes of diseases occurrence of this system are as follows: physical and mental efforts, over nutrition, chronic diarrhea, various chronic diseases, and alcohol consumption. In Chinese medicine there are distinguished the following syndromes of the injury of spleen – pancreas:
Syndromes of emptiness:
- Emptiness Qi of the spleen. Symptoms:
- Lack of appetite.
- Feeling of distension of the abdomen.
- Pasty stools.
- Feeling short of breath.
- Unwillingness to speak.
- Face yellowish.
- Tongue pale, white deposits.
- Emptiness Yan of the spleen. The symptoms of the first syndrome are completed with:
- Cold extremities.
- Superficial edemas throughout the body.
- Oliguria or anuria.
- A lot of leucorrhoea to women.
- Tongue pale and thick, white and slippery deposits.
- Ptosis because of spleen voids. It is developed after the long existing syndrome of emptiness. Symptoms:
- Feeling of weight and feeling of distension in the abdomen.
- Stool several times per day.
- Rectal prolapse.
- Uterine prolapse.
- Visceral ptosis.
- Urine is cloudy.
- Dyspnea, adynamia.
- Voice slow and dizziness.
- Pale tongue, white deposits.
- Spleen does not control blood. Symptoms:
- Blood in the stool, urine, gums bleeding.
- Bruises on the skin.
- Heavy menstrual bleeding at women.
- Adynamia.
- Pasty stools.
- Shortness of breath, unwillingness to speak.
- Ten dimmed.
- Tongue pale, white deposits.
Completeness syndromes:
- Cold and humidity inhibit the spleen. Usually it occurs in the use of poor quality food, finding long time in damp and cold areas. Symptoms:
- Feeling of heaviness and distension in the epigastrium with pain.
- Pasty stools.
- Mild nausea, feeling of nausea.
- Lack of desire to drink.
- Feeling of heaviness in the body.
- Dark yellow skin of face.
- Superficial edema.
- Little urine.
- Thick tongue with white fat deposits.
- Heat and humidity in the spleen. The cause of this syndrome can be overeating of fatty and sweet products and alcohol abuse. Symptoms:
- Feeling of heaviness and discomfort in the abdomen.
- Lack of appetite, nausea.
- Pasty stools.
- Concentrated urine.
- Feeling of weight in the body.
- Skin itching.
- Hyperthermia in the body, sweating without fever decrease.
- Skin color is yellow as a lemon.
- Red tongue with yellow fat deposits.
After defining the affection syndrome, the doctor prescribes the treatment according to the stage, flow of severity state of patient, which consists of acupuncture, acupressure, heating with sagebrush cigars, vacuum therapy, stone therapy, hirudotherapy and phytotherapy.
A great importance in the treatment of the spleen and pancreas diseases holds the medical gymnastics and regular physical exercises. With a timely treatment and care support during the treatment it is possible to achieve the complete recovery.