The liver should be the first priority for the elderly to maintain health in spring. As the saying goes, medicine is better than food, and so is nourishing the liver. The preferred food is cereals, such as glutinous rice, black rice, sorghum and millet; Followed by red dates, longan, walnuts and chestnuts; There are also meat fish, such as beef, pork belly and crucian carp, which also have health care effects on the liver.

In addition, although the weather is warm in spring, there is still cold in winter. You should eat more foods that warm and tonify the yang, such as leeks, garlic, onions, mustard greens, parsley, ginger and onions. This vegetable can not only drive away the cold, but also inhibit and kill germs.

Introduce several methods of nourishing liver in spring.

1, fill the dirty with dirty, chicken first. Chicken liver is sweet and warm, and can nourish blood and liver. It is a good food for nourishing the liver, which has stronger liver nourishing effect than other animals' livers and can warm the stomach. The specific usage is: take 3 fresh chicken livers and rice100g, and cook them together into porridge. Can be used for treating middle-aged and elderly people with liver-blood deficiency, improper diet, dry eyes or tears. In addition, for the elderly with numbness of limbs, 5 pieces of chicken liver and 20g of gastrodia elata can also be steamed once a day for half a month, which can be effective.

2, to taste the liver, vinegar is the first choice. Vinegar tastes sour, enters the liver, and has the functions of calming the liver, removing blood stasis, detoxifying and inhibiting bacteria. Yang Can, an elderly hypertensive patient with hyperactivity of liver yang, takes 40 ml of vinegar every day, dilutes it with warm water, or soaks eggs or soybeans with vinegar, which has a good effect. Usually, people with liver pain due to tightness can take 40 ml of vinegar and Chaihu powder 10 g, which can quickly relieve the pain.

3, liver blood, duck blood. Duck blood is rich in nutrition, and the liver governs the storage of blood, which is a common treatment method in traditional Chinese medicine. Take duck blood 100g, crucian carp 100g, and white rice 100g together with porridge, which can nourish liver blood, help to treat anemia, and is also one of the liver-protecting delicacies for patients with liver cancer.

4, soothing the liver and nourishing blood, spinach is a good vegetable. Spinach is a seasonal vegetable in spring, which has the functions of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, soothing the liver and nourishing blood, and has a good effect on the adjuvant treatment of liver qi stagnation complicated with stomach diseases.