Food therapy is often used in beauty treatments for its increased convenience and safety in long term consumption.

On top of digestion and producing Qi & Blood, the spleen also handles water metabolism, controls blood flow, and prevents organ prolapse.

In TCM, the spleen is said to have multiple major functions, some of which include digestion, water metabolism, control of blood, etc.

In this article, we explain briefly how the organ system in TCM came about and why it is so different from our modern understanding.