What is anorexia in medicine?

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What is anorexia in medicine? Anorexia, the so-called "Na" refers to "stomach Na", "anorexia" means reduced food intake. In the category of traditional Chinese medicine, it belongs to spleen and stomach disease, which is caused by a variety of reasons. If it is caused by food injury, it is often manifested as belching and spitting sour and rotten gas; Another example is caused by dampness, which is often manifested as bloated stomach, white and greasy tongue coating; In addition, low digestive function can also cause anorexia, which is called spleen and stomach weakness in traditional Chinese medicine. In addition to the reduction of food intake, it is also accompanied by abdominal distension, pale complexion, shortness of breath, lazy speech, thin stool and other symptoms after eating. What is anorexia in medicine? Come and study with me.

What is anorexia in medicine?

First of all, feel the evil of time; If you feel the evil of wind cold, the evil of wind cold will attack the stomach and damage the stomach's receiving function; Or because of feeling heat evil, heat evil dry stomach, stomach qi damage, also can make stomach digestion and absorption dysfunction; In particular, feeling dampness evil, dampness sticky, is most likely to damage the digestion and absorption function of the human spleen and stomach. At the same time, the spleen governs dampness and detests dampness. More dampness can suppress the spleen yang, damage the spleen transportation, and do not want to eat if the stomach qi is not opened.

Secondly, kidney yang deficiency and failure; Kidney is the root of human life, the source of all human power, especially the fire of Mingmen, which can transform all things, and fire can produce soil, which plays an important role in digestion of rotten food by spleen and stomach. If the kidney yang is deficient, the fire of Mingmen can't transform spleen and soil, which can lead to the weakness of spleen and stomach, resulting in inability to eat.

Finally: Food injury; If there is adverse physiology in daily life, or too much food is rich and greasy, taking wine as the pulp, taking arrogance as the norm, excessive alcohol and fat, cutting the spleen and stomach, causing stomach qi injury, then the stomach qi can't be mainly decomposed, and if it can be absorbed and dissipated, it doesn't want to eat. The spleen and stomach are weak; If the stomach qi is damaged, the bad smell of food will lead to poor appetite. If the stomach is full of vitality, it will be able to eat without injury; if it is out of date, it will not be hungry; if the spleen and stomach are both strong, it will be able to eat but fat; if the spleen and stomach are both weak, it will not be able to eat but thin.

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Common in liver cancer, Zieve syndrome, proteinuria, sick sinus syndrome in children, primary pulmonary tuberculosis in children, giant cell arteritis and rheumatic polymyalgia, fever of unknown origin, mediastinal lobe tumors and other tumors, postpartum food injury, cold dampness, spleen dampness, choking diaphragm, gastric inertia, smoking poisoning and other diseases. The range of differential diagnosis of anorexia is very wide: digestive tract diseases, metabolic diseases, malignant tumors, chronic inflammation, endocrine diseases, mental diseases, etc. Active treatment, early recovery.