The liver is a very important organ of the human body. It not only detoxifies, but also stores blood. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that all diseases are treated from the liver. This paper introduces the relationship between liver and human health and its maintenance methods.

In the eyes of western medicine, the liver is a metabolic system and an important organ, just like the chemical plant of human body, which is responsible for the detoxification and metabolism of sugar, fat and protein, most of the metabolism of human body and the transformation of toxic substances, so it is also the most easily polluted department. In the eyes of Chinese medicine, the liver is a part, which has two major functions, one is excretion and the other is blood storage.

Liver governs qi. The so-called release of gas means that you can get rid of it. For example, when people are angry for a long time, stagnation of liver qi will affect the transport function of the spleen and stomach, that is, the digestive function is poor, so people don't want to eat when they are angry. The liver not only stores blood, but also regulates the whole body's blood circulation and blood distribution. For example, when people exercise, the liver distributes blood to the limbs. Before the female friend's physiological period, the liver distributes blood to the blood sea, which is the pulse. At this time, there is less blood in the liver and the flexibility is reduced, so female friends will always have a bad temper for a few days.

First, the relationship between liver and emotion

The liver governs anger, and anger hurts the liver. Excessive liver blood is easy to cause blushing, dizziness and headache. This is the expression of liver fire. Long-term lack of sleep will lead to more and more liver fire, which is manifested as bad temper and love to lose temper. So adequate sleep can nourish the liver and make the mood reach a very good level. Conversely, regulating one's emotions is also beneficial to nourishing the liver.

The liver stores blood, and the heart stores blood. When people exercise, blood flows into the meridians; when people are quiet, blood returns to the liver. "The liver stores blood, and the blood gives up the soul", "The liver is the official of the general, and its plan", so the liver participates in spiritual activities.

Second, the relationship between liver and eyes

"The liver opens its eyes", and the eyes are also the "window" of the liver. My eyes are often blurred, my eyes are dry and I can't see clearly. In addition to the problems caused by decreased vision, it may also be a precursor to weak liver function. Any non-traumatic visual impairment is related to liver-qi-blood deficiency. If the liver is hot and humid, the eyes will be turbid and yellow, and if the liver fire is very strong, the eyes will be red or even inflamed. If the liver qi is insufficient, reading for a long time is easy to fatigue, and then it becomes myopia. On the contrary, the eyes are too tired, and improper use of the eyes will also affect the liver.

The liver opens its eyes, the liquid is tears, the liver is the main muscle, and the flowers are in the claws.

The meridians of the liver are connected with the eye system, and objective vision depends on the drainage of the liver and the nutrition of the liver blood. Tears come from eyes, so the liver is in the liquid of tears. Taoist doctors have given "liver" a broader meaning. The main muscle of the liver is on the claw, mainly because the fascia depends on the nourishment of liver blood, and besides the claw, it is the tendon. Symptoms such as limb twitching, angular arch inversion, closed teeth, squinting, and channeling are closely related to the liver.

Third, the relationship between liver and heart

Heart governs blood vessels, and liver governs blood storage; Heart governs mind, liver governs catharsis, and regulates mood. Therefore, the relationship between heart and liver is mainly manifested in blood, spirit and emotion.

1, blood

The heart governs the blood vessels and promotes the blood to run endlessly in the meridians; Liver stores blood, stores blood, and regulates the blood volume distribution of various organs and organs in the whole body. The heart and liver cooperate with each other to maintain the normal operation of blood. Full of qi and blood, you can take care of your heart and hide your liver.

2. Mental and emotional aspects

The heart governs the mind, being the master of the internal organs and giving up the spirit; The liver governs catharsis and regulates emotions. Both mental and emotional activities are based on blood, and the heart and liver are closely related in blood circulation. Therefore, the heart, heart and viscera regulate people's spiritual and emotional activities.

Heart and liver affect each other, and yin-blood deficiency of heart and liver often affects each other. The clinical manifestations are palpitation, palpitation, pallor, pale tongue, weak pulse, dizziness, oligomenorrhea, insomnia and dreaminess.

Fourth, the relationship between liver and gallbladder.

The liver and gallbladder are both exterior and interior, and the physiological relationship is also very close.

Liver governs the discharge, while gallbladder governs the descent. The normal excretion of bile depends on the excretion function of the liver, and the dysfunction of the liver will inevitably affect the secretion and excretion of bile. On the contrary, poor bile excretion will also affect the drainage of the liver. Functionally, the gallbladder is also a good helper for the liver. Bile secreted by the liver is stored in the gallbladder. Once we start eating, the gallbladder begins to contract, so bile flows into the intestine to help digest fat.

The liver and gallbladder are indeed a pair of organs of "honor and disgrace and * * *". Liver diseases often affect the gallbladder, and gallbladder diseases often affect the liver. Patients with liver disease are more likely to suffer from gallstones. On the other hand, gallstones, biliary ascaris or tumors can also make bacteria "upstream", causing liver and even systemic infections.

V the relationship between liver and spleen

The relationship between liver and spleen is mainly the relationship between dispersing and transporting, producing blood and storing blood. The transportation of spleen depends on the access of liver qi, while the drainage and blood storage of liver need the subtle transportation of spleen and stomach to support it. If the spleen loses its health and vitality, it will cause liver blood deficiency; If the liver qi stagnates, it will relieve its duties, affect the rise and fall of the spleen and stomach, lead to the decline of digestive function and loss of appetite, thus leading to "disharmony between liver and spleen"; If the spleen and stomach are damp and hot, the liver and gallbladder will be steamed up, which will cause jaundice. This shows that liver diseases can spread to the spleen and spleen diseases can spread to the liver, and the two affect each other.

Sixth, the relationship between liver and kidney.

Liver and kidney are mainly related to storing blood and semen. Liver stores blood, kidney stores essence, liver and kidney are homologous, and essence and blood alternate. Liver blood needs kidney essence to nourish, and kidney essence needs liver blood essence to supplement continuously. The two are interdependent and mutually beneficial. If kidney yin deficiency and liver dystrophy can cause symptoms of liver yin deficiency and liver yang hyperactivity, the so-called "water does not contain wood"; On the other hand, long-term hyperactivity of liver yang will also aggravate the damage of kidney yin deficiency, with symptoms such as headache, dizziness, soreness of waist and knees, turbid urine or edema. This relationship is mainly manifested in the menstrual physiology of women and the sperm excretion function of men.

Seven, the relationship between liver and lung

Liver stores blood, lung stores qi, and liver qi and lung qi move up and down in yin and yang, maintaining the normal ascending and descending operation of human qi machine. Although the movement of qi and blood is dominated by the heart, it is bound to be restricted by the lung governing joints and the liver governing the discharge. The two viscera play a certain role in the whole body's qi and blood circulation.

Liver and lung interact. For example, abnormal ascending and descending of qi movement: stagnation of liver qi, stagnation of qi into fire, liver fire burning lung, loss of lung clearance, common hypochondriac pain, dysphoria, bad cough, hemoptysis and other symptoms of liver fire invading lung (wood fire punishment). On the other hand, the loss of lung function and the decrease of dryness and heat will also affect the liver, which is not conducive to the circulation of qi. At the same time of coughing, there are symptoms of lung dryness and liver injury (golden wood), such as headache and dizziness.

After introducing the relationship between liver and emotion and the health of other human organs, let's look at diseases closely related to liver and daily conditioning methods.

Relationship between liver and disease

The liver is a very important organ, and many diseases can be reflected from the discomfort of the liver. Therefore, there is a saying that all diseases are treated from the liver. Let's listen to what the hospital experts say.

1, eye disease

The liver opens the eyes, and the liver meridian of Foot Jueyin is the meridian, which is connected with the eye system. Therefore, the liver meridian has a great relationship with eye diseases, and the therapeutic purpose is often achieved by soothing the liver and regulating qi, or nourishing liver yin, or softening the liver and nourishing blood.

Treating Ophthalmopathy from Liver

The liver begins to understand the eyes, which will damage the blood for a long time and the liver for a long time.

Eat more liver-nourishing foods, such as carrots, amaranth, spinach, leeks, fish, animal liver, lean meat, bean products and so on. Eat more fruits rich in vitamin C, and eat more cereals, dried shrimps and milk. Eat less sweets, because too much sugar needs to consume a lot of vitamin B 1 when metabolized in the body, which leads to insufficient vitamin B 1 and is easy to cause myopia.

The liver meridian is connected with the eye system, and the vision of the eyes depends on the release of liver qi and the nutrition of liver blood. Huangdi Neijing: "Blood can be seen in the liver"; "Liver qi is clear to the eyes, and liver harmony can distinguish five colors." If liver blood deficiency can have blurred vision and night blindness; Loss of liver yin leads to dry eyes and decreased vision; Inflammation of liver fire leads to redness, swelling and pain of eyes.

Dry eye is a frequently-occurring disease in people over 50 years old. It is characterized by insufficient tear volume or accelerated tear evaporation due to poor tear quality, which leads to excessive tear loss and chronic dryness of conjunctiva and cornea. Symptoms are mostly dry eyes, burning sensation, frost sensation, acupuncture sensation, itchy eyes, photophobia, jealousy, blurred vision and fatigue. Excessive eye use, dry and high temperature, smoke and dust environment and other irritation to the eyes will aggravate the symptoms of dry eye.

The most commonly used treatment for dry eye is artificial tear replacement therapy. This rule of law cannot solve the problem. Taoist doctors believe that the liver governs the storage of blood, enlightens the eyes, and the yin and blood are insufficient, resulting in malnutrition of the eyes. Therefore, seeing this disease, the treatment of nourishing yin, nourishing blood and softening the liver can achieve better curative effect.

At the same time, it is suggested that it is best to quit smoking and drinking, ensure adequate sleep, and eat more green vegetables such as amaranth, spinach, leek and lettuce, fruits such as papaya and banana, as well as animal liver, milk and bean products.

Medicinal porridge for nourishing liver and improving eyesight

1) chrysanthemum tea

Take 3 grams of chrysanthemum and brew it with boiling water without drinking tea. Chrysanthemum has the functions of light weight, benefiting qi, cooling, detoxifying, calming the liver and improving eyesight, and is a good medicine for preventing and treating various eye diseases. Chrysanthemum tea can make your mind clear and your eyes bright. It was regarded as a longevity drink by the ancients, so the habit of eating chrysanthemums was passed down from generation to generation. It is especially suitable for people with liver fire, dry eyes, burning sensation, itchy eyes and envy.

2) carrot porridge

Take a proper amount of carrots, chop them up, and cook them with 200 grams of rice into porridge. This prescription is introduced in Compendium of Materia Medica, which benefits the liver and improves eyesight, and has anti-aging effect, especially for night blindness.

3) Gouqi porridge

Take 20 grams of medlar and 60 grams of rice. Wash Lycium barbarum, put it in a pot with rice and cook it into porridge, one dose a day. The effect of tonifying kidney, nourishing liver and improving eyesight. It is suitable for myopia and dry eye patients who are often dizzy and have weak waist and knees.

4) Gouqi porridge

Take 5 grams of medlar, 5 grams of mulberry, 5 grams of yam, 5 pieces of red dates, and 0/00 gram of japonica rice/kloc. Wash Fructus Lycii, Mulberry, Rhizoma Dioscoreae and Fructus Jujubae, put them in a pot with japonica rice, and cook them into porridge, one dose a day. Lycium barbarum and mulberry have the functions of nourishing blood and improving eyesight, while Chinese yam and jujube can play the roles of nourishing lung and kidney, benefiting qi and strengthening spleen. Long-term use can not only relieve symptoms such as vision fatigue, dry eye and presbyopia, but also enhance physical fitness.

Diet therapy and liver nourishing method

In autumn, the climate gradually turns from hot to cold, and human physiological activities become active and restrained. At this time, the climate is dry, and the body fluid is easy to be insufficient. In autumn, lung gold is flourishing, and lung gold is like liver wood, which leads to insufficient liver qi in autumn. At this time, we should pay attention to nourishing yin, nourishing liver qi and removing summer heat and dampness. It is advisable to eat less pungent products and eat more nourishing products such as sesame, honey and lily.

Five flavors harmony refers to the different tastes of drugs or foods, such as pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Excessive five flavors will do harm to the corresponding viscera. "Liver likes sour", you can usually eat some sour food, such as hawthorn, dogwood, medlar, etc., which has the function of protecting and astringent liver.

2. Depression

Why are emotional diseases closely related to the liver? "The liver governs the drainage, and the liver governs the storage of blood, aiming at anger". When the excretory function of the liver is normal, the human body can better coordinate its own mental activities, which is manifested as mental pleasure, ease of mind and rational sensitivity; If you can't relieve yourself, you will feel depressed, sentimental, depressed, crying, choking and chest tightness. Excessive catharsis is manifested as excitement, such as irritability, dizziness and pain, insomnia and dreaminess.

"Li Lianwen" says: "The feeling of lust can't be cured by medicine; The disease of seven emotions should be treated with emotion. "

For people with emotional diseases, nourishing the liver depends on emotions. Cultivate positive and healthy emotions, maintain a happy mood, and learn to adjust yourself. When you encounter bad emotions, you should vent them in time and don't keep them in your heart.

Liver belongs to green among the five colors, and green has the function of stabilizing people's emotions. You can go for an outing, breathe fresh air and live a healthy and sunny life.

Conforming to the nature's health preservation, Lingshu Benjing said: "The health preservation fluid of the wise must always be suitable for cold and warm, live in harmony with anger, and combine rigidity with softness. If there is, it will not be evil for a long time. " It is necessary to adapt to the natural laws of spring, long summer, autumn harvest and winter storage, and keep the yin, yang, qi and blood of the human body peaceful so that diseases and pathogens cannot enter. Go to bed late in spring and summer and get up early in autumn and winter, so that the qi of yin and yang in the body can adapt to the disappearance of natural yin and yang.

"Running water does not rot, and family members do not gnaw at the walls." Regular exercise promotes qi and blood circulation and makes the body strong and healthy. Especially for the elderly, they need to be "tireless" and persevere in order to achieve the purpose of health preservation and disease prevention.

3. Gynecological diseases

The liver governs the drainage and blood storage, and the liver likes to be soft and smooth, so the loss of the drainage function of the liver will cause many gynecological diseases, such as irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, irregular menstruation, even pelvic inflammatory disease and even infertility, all of which are related to the loss of the drainage function of the liver.

In Su Wen Du Tong Lun, "All diseases are born of qi", which is aimed at the emotional injury that affects the smooth flow of qi and blood. Because the liver is happy and depressed, Xiaoyao Powder, Yueju Pill, Sini Powder and Chaihu Shugan Powder are commonly used in gynecology to soothe the liver and regulate qi. Women are born with a liver, so almost all gynecological diseases are related to the liver.

4. Breast hyperplasia

Female mammary gland hyperplasia is related to meridian movement. The liver meridian starts from the foot, reaches the inner thigh, both sides of abdomen, both sides of chest, and then reaches the head, all the way to the top, that is, the top of the head. Because it is distributed on both sides of the breast, in the case of long-term discomfort, that is, stagnation and discomfort of liver qi, the blood will stagnate, and after a long time of stagnation, it will form a lump, which is mammary gland hyperplasia.

Mammary hyperplasia is a common breast disease of women, which belongs to the category of "mammary addiction". Breast lump, round, cord-like or nodular, with tenderness, increases and hardens before menstruation, and relieves after menstruation, which is closely related to emotional changes. "Treat the liver first, and the gas addiction will disappear." Taoist doctors believe that this disease is mostly caused by emotional internal injury, stagnation of liver-qi, stagnation of qi and blood, mutual stagnation of phlegm and qi, and obstruction of mammary collaterals. Therefore, the treatment is to soothe the liver and relieve depression, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and soften the hard mass.

This part of the female liver is mainly nourishing emotions. It's best not to give yourself too much psychological pressure, don't be too nervous at work and keep a good mood.

"Treating diseases before they occur" means preventing diseases. For example, liver qi deficiency, the most common women are prone to hyperplasia of mammary glands, hysteromyoma, nervous headache, chronic stomach diseases, etc., all of which will occur, so liver depression and qi stagnation are the direct causes of this disease, and the importance of nourishing the liver lies in preventing these diseases.

Finally, some health care methods for maintaining the liver are introduced, which are suitable for most people.

Which acupoints can nourish the liver and massage?

Dadun point, Taichong point, Sanyinjiao point, two threats.

Liver protection campaign:

① Kneading Da Dun Point: meditate cross-legged, barefoot, press Da Dun Point on your right foot (outside the toenail root) with your left thumb, 15 times for your left hand and 15 times for your right hand, and then press Da Dun Point on your left foot with your right hand. The method is the same as above.

② Pressing Taichong point: sit cross-legged, press Taichong point (between the first and second phalanges of the dorsum of the foot) along the gap between the bones with your left thumb and slide it back and forth for 20 times, and then press Dadun point on your right foot with your left hand. The method is the same as above.

③ Kneading Sanyinjiao: Sit cross-legged, press Sanyinjiao with the thumb of the left hand (3 inches above the tip of the medial malleolus, at the posterior edge of the tibia), 65,438+05 times with the left hand and 65,438+05 times with the right hand, and then press Sanyinjiao with the right hand. The method is the same as before.

④ Push and knead two sides: press your hands under your armpits and massage along your ribs until your hands touch your chest and return, and massage back and forth for 30 times. This exercise has the functions of nourishing and protecting the liver, enhancing liver function and lowering blood pressure.