如何养脾胃？

How to invigorate the spleen and stomach？

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摘自医方明-浅谈养生之道03
extracted from Buddhist Medecine03
——A brief introduction to health-nurturing practices
（“养生之道”的翻译，参考：https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/54667521）

伤脾的坏习惯主要和饮食有关，吃得太生太冷太撑了，就会伤脾。生冷的食物带着寒炁进入体内，容易伤及脾胃。而饥一顿饱一顿也会伤害很大。
The bad habits that hurt the spleen are mainly related to diet，eating too raw, too cold or too much. Raw and cold food carries cold energy into the body, which tends to damage the spleen and stomach. Irregular diet of eating can hurt very much.
思伤脾，脾胃怕思虑过多，想得太多了就会伤脾，影响食物的消化和吸收。如果你想一个事情想得都没有胃口的话，就已经伤到脾了。还有很多的药物也伤脾，西药基本上都是伤脾胃的。
Excessive contemplation impairs the spleen. Spleen and stomach will be in danger with too many worries, thinking too much will do harm to your spleen, affecting the digestion and absorption. If you think about something so much that you have no appetite, you have already hurt your spleen. Many medicines do harm to spleen, western medicines are basically harmful to the spleen and stomach.

中医认为“甘入脾”，吃甘甜的食物补养炁血。但是这个甘不是叫你去吃糖，红糖适量地可以吃一点，但是糖还是少吃。最好是适量地吃一点山药、红薯，这里面的糖份就够量了。

According to traditional Chinese medicine, "sweetness enters spleen", so eating sweet foods nourishes vital energy and blood. But this sweetness is not asking you to eat sugar. You can eat brown sugar in moderation, but sugar should be taken sparingly. It would be best to eat yam and sweet potato in moderate quantity, which contain sufficient sugar inside.

早上喝小米粥对脾胃虚弱的人也很好。
Taking millet porridge in the morning also does good to people with a weak spleen and stomach.
其实这些都不是最主要的，最重要的还是什么呀？你看，“思伤脾”，那你不思，脾不是马上就好了？
However, the above is not the most important. What is the most important point? As it's already indicated, "Excessive contemplation impairs the spleen"，so if you don't worry at all, your spleen will heal right away.
我们中医讲的五脏跟西医讲的五脏不是一个概念，心不是心脏，心属火，代表火炁，脾也不是脾脏，脾属土，代表土炁，土炁受伤了这个脾就会受伤。脾炁弱就很容易得胃病或者胃穿孔、胃癌。所有的胃病都是因为脾炁和胃炁不足。
The conception of “five internal organs” in Chinese Traditional Medicine is not the same as that in Western Medicine, Heart does not mean heart organ, it represents element “fire”, fire energy. Spleen is not spleen organ either, but element “earth”, earth energy. A weak spleen is due to poor earth energy. Poor spleen energy leads also to stomach problems or gastric perforation or even stomach cancer. All stomach problems are derived from lack of vital energy of spleen and stomach.
要让胃好呢，最好的办法就是减少思虑，想得多的人脾胃是不可能好的。
To make the stomach healthy, the best way is to reduce thinking, a person with too many thoughtfulness would not have healthy spleen and stomach.
我们中医的理念和方法都是从道家来的，道家是我们中国本土的一种修炼方法，它的基本功就是中医。道家修炼刚开始就是练炁，肾炁不足就容易腰酸，或者腰间盘突出，都是肾炁不足造成的。
The philosophy and methods of Chinese medicine come from Taoism, which is a Chinese indigenous practicing way and whose basic foundation is Chinese medicine. Taoist practice starts with practice of vital energy. Insufficient kidney vital energy results easily in soreness of back, or even a lumbar disc protrusion.
我们这个肉体只是一个躯壳，一切脏器都是靠炁来支撑的。没有炁这个胃不可能消化食物，它只是一块肉，只是一个工具。我们的人体，五脏六腑，包括这个身体都是一个工具。
Our physical body is just a shell, and all the organs are operated by vital energy. Without vital energy, stomach cannot digest. Stomach itself is just a piece of meat, just a tool. Our human body, including five viscera organs (Wu Zang) and six bowel organs (Liu Fu) are all tools.

备注
翻译：黄君艳
校对： Koala
审稿： Nina
2022/3/13