Generally, Chinese medicine has five ways to protect the liver:
First of all, Chinese medicine pays attention to emotional health. The five internal organs of TCM correspond to five emotions, namely anger, joy, thinking, sadness and fear. Among them, the liver corresponds to "anger", that is, "anger hurts the liver", so we should pay attention to controlling our emotions at ordinary times. Long-term depression or sudden anger will lead to liver qi and blood imbalance and affect the function of liver to relieve qi and blood. Therefore, when you feel uncomfortable, you should find ways to vent negative emotions, such as finding a close friend to talk about your unhappiness, and you must not keep it in your heart to avoid hurting your liver.
Secondly, TCM health care especially emphasizes the rules of work and rest and daily life. According to the meridian stream of traditional Chinese medicine, the liver and gallbladder are most prosperous from 1 1 afternoon to 3: 00 am, and the blood of the internal organs passes through the liver, and the detoxification function of the liver reaches its peak at this moment. Therefore, people should conform to nature at this time and ensure adequate rest. In addition, Chinese medicine believes that "blood returns to the liver when people lie down." Therefore, the best way to nourish the liver is to have a good rest. Avoid overwork at ordinary times, rest in time to replenish physical strength, let the liver play the role of regulating qi and blood and eliminate fatigue.
Third, Chinese medicine can protect the liver through food supplements. Traditional Chinese medicine has always had the saying of "five-color diet". The liver dominates cyan, and "cyan enters the liver meridian", so you can usually eat more cyan foods, such as spinach, watercress, kale, cucumber, wax gourd and mung bean. It has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, soothing the liver and nourishing blood. In addition, according to the principle that sour taste enters the liver, you can eat more rice vinegar in daily life, which can not only benefit the liver but also prevent colds. Some sour foods, such as hawthorn, dogwood and medlar, have the function of protecting and astringent liver. Liver protectors should also pay attention to eating less spicy and greasy food and drinking less.
Fourth, strengthen the spleen and protect the liver. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the five internal organs are closely related, among which the liver belongs to wood, the spleen belongs to soil, and the wood is flourishing. Liver governs blood, stores and regulates whole body blood volume, and spleen governs blood, which is the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Spleen is healthy, qi and blood are active, and blood volume is sufficient, so liver blood is full. Therefore, properly maintain the digestive function of the spleen and stomach, and eat some traditional Chinese medicines with the functions of invigorating qi and strengthening the spleen, such as Dangshen, Yam, Poria, Atractylodes macrocephala, Coicis Semen and lentils. It is also of great benefit to the care of the liver.
Finally, many traditional Chinese medicines have the function of nourishing and soothing the liver, such as hawthorn, cassia seed, turmeric, dried tangerine peel, wormwood, white peony root, kudzuvine flower, bitter orange, Gynostemma pentaphyllum and so on. These Chinese herbal medicines all have decoction pieces in Chinese medicine shops. Under the guidance of Chinese medicine, you can drink some teabags properly at ordinary times, which can not only play a good role in the recovery of fatty liver, but also protect the liver for people who have more entertainment and need to drink alcohol. If you find it troublesome to make teabags, you can also drink some prepared health tea. Health-preserving and liver-strengthening tea, as a common health drink for protecting the liver, contains Chinese herbal ingredients such as Gynostemma pentaphyllum, Rabdosia rubescens, Bupleurum chinense, Ganoderma lucidum, Lycium barbarum, Polyporus umbellatus, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, etc. It is convenient to brew and tastes good, so it is a good choice for office workers.
Liver fire is flourishing, and Longdan Xiegan Pill can be used to stop middle diseases.
1 "Often irritable, angry, dry eyes", with a tendency of hyperactivity of liver fire, but it cannot be diagnosed as hyperactivity of liver fire.
The diagnosis of diseases in TCM needs listening, listening, questioning, four diagnoses and comprehensive analysis. At present, patients with incomplete information (data) are diagnosed as hyperactivity of liver fire, so prescribing drugs does not conform to the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, and the effect will be greatly reduced.
Excess of liver fire should be manifested as thirst, yellow urine, fever, red tongue with yellow coating and rapid pulse. If the above situation occurs, especially the tongue picture (red tongue with yellow fur) and pulse picture (pulse number), it can be diagnosed as hyperactivity of liver fire.
It is recommended to go to a regular Chinese medicine hospital to see Chinese medicine. In the case of unclear diagnosis, it is best not to blindly take Chinese patent medicine, which may have long-term side effects.
Chinese patent medicine Shugan powder, taken according to the instructions, is very effective.
In terms of diet, barley lotus seed porridge is better. Lotus seeds soaked in water can also calm the liver.
Liver-fire flourishing meridians do not get angry, so eat more papaya. Soak your feet with hot water before going to bed. Massage the gallbladder channels more. This is a good way to get rid of anger. It is recommended to read the manual, which is sold everywhere. It is very helpful for conditioning the body.
In order to prevent the rising of liver fire or clearing liver fire, Chinese medicine often uses Prunella vulgaris, mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum or honeysuckle, wormwood and so on for treatment, and the effect is good. The method is as follows:
1, Prunella vulgaris 12g, mulberry leaf 10g, chrysanthemum 10g.
Soak Prunella vulgaris and mulberry leaves in proper amount of water for half an hour, then cook for another half an hour, and finally add chrysanthemum to cook for 3 minutes to drink tea instead. You can season it with rock sugar or honey.
(Note: The above is the weight of 1 for two people, which can be increased according to the number of people. )
2. Flos Lonicerae 15g, Herba Artemisiae Scopariae 15g.
Soak honeysuckle and wormwood in proper amount of water for half an hour, then cook for another half an hour, and then drink tea instead. It can be seasoned with brown sugar or sliced sugar or honey.
In addition, to prevent the liver fire from rising, you can also drink "medlar chrysanthemum tea", the method is as follows:
Boil Lycium barbarum for 30 minutes first, add chrysanthemum and then cook for 3 minutes, which can be used as tea. It is suitable for patients with dizziness, envy and dry eye who often use their brains.
To nourish the liver, you can eat more pig liver or chicken liver, especially those who often see things vaguely and spend too much energy.
Drink pear water to remove liver fire: Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae 10g is mashed into powder, two pears are peeled and cut into pieces, appropriate amount of rock sugar is added, and stewed in clear water.
When the human body loses its normal hidden function due to yin-yang imbalance, there will be symptoms of "getting angry".
There are many specific factors that lead to "getting angry". Excessive mood swings, heatstroke, catching cold, colds, alcohol and tobacco addiction, overeating spicy products such as onions, ginger, garlic and peppers, overeating fat products such as mutton and dog meat, poisoning and lack of sleep will all "get angry".
In Chinese medicine, upper burning symptoms such as dizziness and sore throat are called "upper burning fire", middle burning fire such as upset, thirst and epigastric pain, and lower burning fire such as constipation and hematuria. According to the viscera, it can be divided into "liver fire" and "lung fire" for nasal fan asthma, and "heart fire" for mouth and tongue sores and so on. Combined with the internal situation, these fires can also be divided into "excess" and "deficiency", with severe symptoms and fierce fires; Symptoms are mild, lasting for a long time, accompanied by hand and foot heart fever, hot flashes and night sweats. It belongs to virtual fire. This classification provides a basis for related treatment.
Treatment of "excessive internal heat" should pay attention to two points:
First, choose Chinese medicine instead of blindly using western medicine. Because the former can only cure the disease by conditioning the whole body, and the latter can only cure the symptoms.
The second is to treat according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine. For example, Wei Qing powder should be used to treat "moderate-jiao fire", Daochi powder should be used to treat "heart fire", and Sanhuang tablets and Niuhuang Jiedu tablets should be used to reduce fire, preferably under the guidance of a doctor. If you see "fire", use porn or something. Sometimes it doesn't work, but it's a mistake.
People who are often depressed and irritable can be manifested in the following situations:
There is fire in the upper energizer (upper energizer refers to the heart and lungs),
Symptoms include dry mouth and rotten tongue, cleft lip, red eye, tinnitus and even slight cough.
There is fire in the middle energizer (the middle energizer refers to the spleen and stomach), which is manifested in that sometimes the stomach fire is too strong, the appetite is insufficient, and sometimes it is sour, er, the gas is up, the abdomen is full, and the diet is less.
There is fire in the lower energizer (the lower energizer refers to the liver, kidney, bladder, large intestine and small intestine), which is characterized by dry stool, scanty urine and Huang Chi, foul odor, pruritus in pudendal region, frequent leucorrhea in women and even yellowing.
From the perspective of dietotherapy and health care, the general principle is to drink more water, eat less spicy food, and it is best to smoke less, drink less, and even quit smoking and drinking; Eat less greasy food, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, and keep the stool not dry and the urine not turbid.
If there is a slight fire, you can usually eat some pears, lotus roots, persimmon cream and other foods.
People with fire in the gastrointestinal system can eat more vegetables rich in cellulose and increase intestinal peristalsis. If the stool is dry, you can drink 50 ~ 100g honey every day. Strong people can take eat areca tablets to help digestion.
If the symptoms are obvious, you can take the following drugs according to the situation: if there is fire in the middle jiao, you can take Jiao Sanxian (hawthorn, medicated leaven and malt), Jiao Sixian (Jiao Sanxian plus burnt areca nut), you can also take Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli, spiced areca sugar (made of areca nut as the main component plus drugs such as Amomum villosum and Amomum villosum), and if there is fire in the lower jiao, you can take Chinese patent medicines such as Longdan Xiegan Pill and Angelica sinensis. You can also take a single medicine, such as Sophora japonica and Sanguisorba officinalis. If the itching is serious, you can buy some Fructus Cnidii for fumigation and washing.