In traditional Chinese medicine, the spleen (includes stomach and pancreas) is the major organ that controls digestion. Digestion, digestive fire transforms and transports food, nutrients into blood. Blood (nutrients) build, thicken, fuel, heat, cleanse, cool and moisten. Weak digestion transforms and transports less, decreasing nutrient absorption, blood, while increasing waste, as whatever food not digested, absorbed becomes waste sent directly to the large intestine for temporary storage and eventual elimination. Long-term low protein, low fat and high carbohydrate diets, in addition to drugs, surgery, chronic disease, etc. weaken the spleen, digestion, blood (deficiency), structure and function.
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