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Stomach and Spleen
According to Shin Nong's classification, the stomach is yellow like the earth. As the stomach is the principal organ of digestion, every part of the body is dependent upon it for nourishment. When the five principal elements are working with equal balance and power, the stomach and spleen are working in unison and are free from complaints. The stomach and the spleen depend upon the fire element (heat) of the blood for their digestive power, just as the cooking of food in a pot depends upon fire and water. (Note: The words "fire, inflammation, acid, heat, or fever," when used with regard to the human system, all indicate the fire element.) If either the stomach or the spleen is inflamed or weak, gas, pain, vomiting, indigestion, biliousness, a grating sensation, an empty annoying feeling after each meal, cancers or ulcers may result. When the stomach is merely weak or is lacking in the fire element, the food may lie there undigested and cause continuous pain until it is vomited out. This condition causes many people to fear that they have cancers or ulcers of the stomach. Frequently, surgeons operate upon the stomachs of people thus afflicted, but upon finding neither cancers nor ulcers, sew them up again without discovering the cause of the pain.
Weakness of the spleen of long standing causes protruding rectum and bleeding after bowel movements, diarrhoea, dysentery, rupture, discharge of mucus from the intestines, loss of appetite, displacement of the stomach, a tired feeling, and weakness of the limbs. Physic tends to weaken the spleen and causes constipation. If the bowels fail to move do not be in haste to take a physic unless there is high fever, for it is very likely that they will move naturally the next day. The Chinese people, with the exception of a few opium smokers, are seldom troubled with constipation. -(14)- Acute inflammation in the stomach and spleen are the causes of hemorrhage, pimples around the mouth, canker sores, pain in the rectum, pain and soreness in the fingers and toes, inflammation of the eyes and even blindness.
The stomach and spleen are liable to be affected by acid in the blood in conjunction with fever in the liver and kidneys. In such cases, the sufferer experiences gas pressure, a grating sensation, an empty feeling, and an annoying pain for about an hour after each meal. If he eats fruit or sour food his condition is aggravated. When he takes something hot, either liquid or solid, he feels better for a little while because the acid burns the food. However, as soon as the food is digested, the acid begins to burn the wall of the stomach and the pain returns.
When a sufferer from stomach trouble goes to a physician, the latter generally X-Rays the stomach to see if there is a growth of any kind. Discovering none, he then watches the digestion through an X-Ray. The only thing that the physician finds out is that the food is digested rapidly, but he does not know that this is because the fire element is burning up the food too fast. While quite common among Americans, this sort of stomach trouble is rarely found among Chinese, because the Chinese food is better suited to the human system than are the highly refined foods eaten by Americans. It therefore follows that Chinese Herbalists whose patrons are mainly Chinese, know nothing of this condition and are therefore helpless in the face of such suffering. Beginning in the year 1916, the Fong Wan Herbalist has made careful study of these complaints from which Americans suffer so intensely. His formula contains herbs for the kidneys and liver, herbs for freeing the stomach and spleen of acid, herbs to eliminate gas, and herbs to improve the digestion. When the blood in the stomach is in good condition, the ulcers heal. The Fong Wan Herb Compound for the stomach and spleen has benefited thousands of people, and approximately 65,000 packages have been sold during the past twelve years. a TESTIMONIALS ::