DIETARY SUGGESTIONS FOR SPLEEN NOT CONTROLLING BLOOD
Beneficial Foods: generally warm; slightly charred foods
Beneficial Teas:
Avoid:
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One area where Western Medicine and Chinese Medicine overlap with regard to the Spleen
is the control of blood. Chinese Medicine views that Spleen Qi holds blood in, keeping
it from bleeding. When people with Spleen Qi Deficiency,
their Spleens can sometimes fail to hold blood in. It manifests as uterine bleeding,
blood in the urine, anal bleeding, and purpura.
apple cucumber, beef, bird's nest, black-eyed peas, carrot, cherry, chestnut, chicken egg yolk,
cucumber meat, button
mushrooms, dates, ginger, grape, ham, lotus fruit and seed, perch, potato, mustard seed,
rice, rock sugar, string bean, sweet potato, yam.
ginger, cinnamon
cold foods, very hot foods