Chinese medicine believes that the heart is the official of the monarch, but besides the heart, there is also a very important organ, the liver. "On Su Wenling's Secret Code" said: "The liver is the official of the general, but think about it." It means that the liver is a general who leads troops to fight and helps to advise. It can be seen from this sentence that the position and function of the liver in the human body is self-evident.
Huangdi Neijing also said in the liver wood that the human body should take the liver as the center. According to the relationship between five elements, it explains the physiological and pathological relationship between liver wood and five internal organs. Under physiological conditions, liver wood is the spleen soil, the gram of lung gold, the mother of heart fire and the son of kidney water. Under pathological conditions, if the liver is depressed, it will affect the five internal organs and produce a series of pathological changes. Stagnation of liver qi is the root cause of various pathogenesis.
To ensure the health of the liver, it is necessary to understand the important role of the liver in the human body, clarify the position of the liver in the viscera, and then adhere to the external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine for autonomy.
Liver wind moving inside, disease name and syndrome. Refers to those whose liver wind is not affected by exogenous cold. Generally, it refers to the symptoms caused by wind-yang, fiery heat and yin-blood deficiency, with limb twitching, dizziness and tremor as the main manifestations. Su Wen Zhi Zhen Da Lun: "Every wind dazzles the liver." "Clinical Guide to Medical Records and Liver Wind" Hua said: "If semen is insufficient, liver yin is insufficient, blood dryness generates heat, and heat causes the wind and yang to rise, the collaterals are blocked, the mind is unclear, the head is dizzy and the sputum is paralyzed." Liver wind can be divided into deficiency and excess, and deficiency syndrome includes yin deficiency moving wind and blood deficiency generating wind; There are liver yang turning into wind, and there are also extremely hot wind. Regularly adjusting the liver meridian has the following advantages:
1, the heart governs blood, but the operation of blood is also restricted by qi.
Activating qi promotes blood circulation, while stagnation of qi leads to blood stasis. The regulation of qi in the liver is related to the operation of blood. "The Ming dynasty miscellaneous medical. Xue once wrote in Medical Theory: "Liver-qi is the general rule, and heart-qi is in harmony, while stagnation of liver-qi leads to deficiency of heart-qi". It is pointed out that the liver governing and dispersing qi can assist the activity of heart qi, make blood circulation beneficial and benefit heart health.
2. The liver is rich in blood.
The ancients called the liver "blood bank", "blood room" and "blood sea". The liver stores blood. First, the liver itself can store a lot of blood for all parts of the body to move. Second, the liver stores blood, nourishes itself, keeps the liver soft and restricts the liver yang. If the amount of blood stored in the liver is insufficient, it will lead to liver blood deficiency, and the tissues and organs of the body will not get enough blood nutrition. If the yang of the liver cannot be restricted, it will lead to hyperactivity of liver yang and inflammation of liver fire.
Step 3 promote digestion
Whether the digestive function of spleen and stomach is normal or not mainly depends on whether the function of spleen to reduce turbidity is coordinated and balanced. The function of the liver governing and expelling qi is normal, which can promote the rise of spleen-qi and the decline of stomach-qi. The liver governs the drainage, which plays an extremely important role in promoting the digestive function of the spleen and stomach. As Tang Rongchuan said, "The nature of wood is mainly to relieve qi, and qi enters the stomach, relying on the qi of liver wood to relieve qi, while Shui Gu is fine." If the liver loses the function of dispersing qi, it can affect the ascending and clearing of spleen, which is manifested as rib swelling pain, abdominal distension, bowel sounds, diarrhea and so on. This is called disharmony between liver and spleen; If it affects the harmony and health of the stomach, it can be seen that belching, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, acid swallowing and vomiting are called disharmony between the liver and the stomach.
4. Regulate male ejaculation and female menstruation.
Sperm is stored in the kidney, while male semen overflow is controlled and regulated by the antidiarrheal function of the liver. When the liver qi is relaxed, the meridians are unobstructed, the essence and qi orifices are frequently opened and closed, and the storage of essence and diarrhea is moderate. If the liver fails to drain, the qi stagnates, the meridians are uncomfortable, and the essence is motionless, it shows that the amount of semen is small or not injected; If the liver depression turns into heat for a long time and the fire moves wildly, it will cause nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation.
Women are born with a liver, and the normal function of the liver directly affects women's physiology and pathology. Among them, "the liver governs the discharge" to maintain women's menstruation and ovulation, so that menstruation, vaginal discharge, pregnancy, childbirth and lactation are normal. The liver stores blood, which governs the drainage. Sex everything, but hate depression. The liver is yin and yang, which has the physiological functions of storing blood, regulating blood flow and blood volume. Women are based on blood. If the body is depressed, or the seven emotions are hurt, the function of the liver will be abnormal, which will affect chong and ren, and may lead to menstrual disease. As Ye said in the Clinical Guide to Medical Records: "The liver meridian is diseased, and menstruation is irregular", and the liver governing the discharge is closely related to menstrual diseases.
Step 5 collect blood
"Liver storing blood" also means restraint and fixation, so "liver storing blood" has the function of fixation of blood. This function has been discussed by the ancients, and it is said in the Book of Health Preservation that "the husband's liver sucks blood". "Gynecology Standard" quoted Zi Xue as saying, "Liver deficiency cannot absorb blood". Therefore, liver dysfunction leads to all kinds of bleeding, which is also recorded in ancient books. For example, "Su Wen" said. "On Pain" holds that "angry people are angry and even vomit blood." The ancients emphasized that vomiting blood was mainly used to treat the liver. "If vomiting blood, the liver will lose its function. Nourishing the liver will calm the liver and restore blood circulation. Cut it, liver deficiency does not hide blood. "
6, regulate blood flow
Don Bing Wang said, "The liver stores blood, and the heart follows it. When people move, the blood is transported to the meridians, and when people are quiet, the blood returns to the liver. " It shows that the increase or decrease of blood flow in various parts of human body is related to the blood storage function of liver.
The blood flow in various parts of the human body is often self-regulated with the influence of human activities, emotional changes, climate and environment. When the body is active or emotional, the liver can transport the stored blood to the periphery for the body's needs; When the human body is in a state of quiet rest and emotional stability, due to the small amount of whole body activity, the demand for blood, especially peripheral blood, in various parts of the body is correspondingly reduced, and then relatively redundant blood is stored in the liver. This shows that all aspects of human viscera activities are closely related to the liver. If there is something wrong with the function of the liver to control blood storage, it will affect the normal activities of the human body and cause blood diseases. For example, liver blood deficiency, also known as liver yin deficiency, often has dim eyes, muscle contracture, unfavorable flexion and extension, decreased menstrual flow and even amenorrhea in women. Therefore, the liver has no effect on blood.
7, dredge qi, blood and body fluid
The circulation of qi, blood, body fluid depends on the smoothness of qi, and the smoothness of qi is the most basic physiological function of liver governing and expelling qi. When the function of the liver governing the discharge is normal, the qi is smooth, the qi and blood are harmonious, and the meridians are smooth, so the physiological activities of the viscera and organs will be coordinated. Jin Shenao said: "Therefore, the qi of one yang originates from Jueyin, and the whole body is full of qi. Liver harmony leads to qi, and qi leads to everything, which is the biochemistry of viscera. " If the liver's drainage function is abnormal, it is often manifested in two situations: first, the drainage function is not as good as drainage, and qi stagnation is called "stagnation of liver qi", which is manifested as depression, pain and discomfort in chest, hypochondrium, breast and abdomen. Second, the stagnation of liver qi turns into fire, and the excessive ascending and discharging is manifested as the internal heat rushing up, which is called "liver qi rushing up" or "liver fire rushing up". Symptoms include head swelling and brain pain, red face and red eyes, fullness of hypochondriac ribs, irritability and so on. Burping, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea may also occur.
In addition, the metabolism of body fluid transport is closely related to the gasification function of lung, spleen, kidney and triple energizer. According to the treatment of obstruction in Jing Yue Quan Shu, if the qi is solid, it will be trapped between the small intestine and the bladder, but the obstruction is painless, which is a syndrome of strong liver and adverse qi.
8. Emotional adjustment
Emotions include joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and surprise, also known as the seven emotions. "Su Wen. "Yin and Yang should be like the Great Theory" says, "People have five internal organs and five qi to produce emotions, sorrows and fears." It is believed that the generation and change of emotions are related to the transport function of the five internal organs. In addition to the heart governing the gods, the five internal organs have a commanding role in people's spiritual consciousness and thinking activities, and the liver governs the discharge and regulates emotions, which is also very important for various spiritual activities, especially emotional processes. If the hair growth of the liver is not as good as that of the liver, it will inevitably lead to exhaustion and mental malnutrition. At this time, if qi and blood are not running smoothly, there will inevitably be pathological changes dominated by qi stagnation. For example, unhappy, suspicious, depressed and crying. If you don't control your hair, the yang will rise, which will lead to excessive drainage, pathological changes dominated by qi and blood, and even vomiting blood and syncope.
The catharsis function of the liver and emotional changes affect each other, and they are mutually causal. Many emotional changes will affect the catharsis function of the liver, among which anger is the most serious. "The coffin said so. All diseases begin with "being angry and unhappy is harmful to the liver". "The coffin said so. Pathogenic qi hides the disease form of the fu-organs. ""If you are angry, the qi will go up but not down. If you accumulate under the ribs, it will hurt the liver. " Shen Qingjin 'ao said, "Only calming the liver can make you angry." Bad mood changes affect the catharsis function of the liver. Only by treating the liver can the normal catharsis function of the liver be restored.
From this point of view, rubbing the liver and gallbladder fat on the calf and pressing the liver and gallbladder meridians can always keep the liver and gallbladder meridians unobstructed, which will have different degrees of therapeutic effects on heart disease, diabetes, gynecological diseases, increased blood viscosity, urinary system and other diseases.