Spring makes the liver flourish. In the human body, the liver is mainly responsible for promoting qi circulation and storing blood. In TCM theory, the liver opens the eyes. If you use liver blood deficiency, it will make your eyes dry and dim. The liver is actually very important to the mind. Insomnia, dreaminess and lack of sleep are related to the liver, because people with insufficient liver-qi will show liver-qi imbalance, which will affect later sleep and lead to liver fire. Because people who are angry with their liver are prone to sleep difficulties, poor sleep will lead to insufficient sleep, and the energy for work and study the next day may be insufficient.
In addition, China's splendid medical culture of nearly 5,000 years has already brilliantly put forward classic ideas such as "preventing diseases". Therefore, we should adapt ourselves to the change of the weather in time, adjust our daily diet and spiritual support accordingly, and strengthen the health care of the liver through "prevention before illness, prevention without change".
You can cooperate with nourishing the liver from three aspects: spirit, diet and exercise.
1. Have a good sleep before nourishing the liver.
Nourishing the liver is very important in sleep. Modern people's living habits of yin and yang inversion are particularly harmful to the liver. Most people who stay up late have red eyes, which is a symptom of rising liver fire. If you do this for a long time, it will definitely hurt your liver.
In Huangdi Neijing, it is recorded that "people lie in blood and return to the liver", but in spring, they should lie at night and get up early. Modern medical research has confirmed that the blood flowing into the liver during sleep is seven times that when standing. Through the increase of blood flow in the liver, it is beneficial to enhance the function of liver cells, improve the ability of detoxification, and accelerate the metabolism of protein, amino acids, sugar, fat, vitamins and other nutrients, thus maintaining the stability of human internal environment and resisting the invasion of various infectious diseases in spring. "
2. Reduce acid and sweeten to make up for it.
Huangdi Neijing: "Yang in spring and summer, Yin in autumn and winter". The diet in spring is mainly flat and tonic, with emphasis on nourishing the liver and spleen. Because the sour taste enters the liver, it is the original taste of the liver. If the liver that has been excited in spring ingests too much sour taste, it will cause excessive liver qi, and the liver will inevitably hurt the spleen. Spleen and stomach are closely related, so spleen deficiency is not conducive to the digestion and absorption of food by spleen and stomach. Sweet taste enters the spleen, and it is better to tonify the spleen. Spleen health also contributes to liver qi. Therefore, spring tonic should be as Sun Simiao, a hundred-year-old doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said: "Save acid and sweeten it to nourish your temper." It is to eat less sour food and more sweet food to nourish the liver and spleen, which is of great benefit to disease prevention and health care.
In the process of children's growth and development, the development of viscera is incomplete, delicate, hot and sickly. In this season, they get angry easily, so they should eat less greasy meat and more vegetables and fruits.
Food suitable for spring:
Leek. It is called "rising grass". Compendium of Materia Medica: "The leaves of Chinese chives are warm and have the same effect. When it was first born, it was spicy and scattered blood. Cooked, sweet and tonic, it is also a dish of liver. " Moderate consumption of warm leek in spring can supplement the yang of human body and enhance the functions of liver and spleen and stomach.
3. Adhere to exercise and fitness.
In the early morning, evening and holidays, you can stroll along the grass path, dance boxing and make swords in the forest by the river, or go for an outing in the suburbs, visit mountains and water, enjoy flowers and sing songs, climb high and look far, and integrate your body and mind into nature, which invisibly enhances your physical and mental health.
In addition, maintaining an optimistic and open-minded attitude is also essential for the health care of the liver. Ordinary people often say that "fire hurts the liver", "anger hurts the liver" and "excessive liver fire" are actually saying that excessive emotional stimulation will destroy the balance and coordination of qi in the five internal organs. Therefore, spring should conform to the natural law of Yang Qi rising, so as to make liver qi smooth. This requires everyone to learn to self-regulate and control their emotions, to be open-minded, to abstain from anger when encountering unpleasant things, and to vent in time to prevent stagnation of liver qi. Usually, we should cultivate an optimistic and cheerful personality and have more hobbies.
Spring healthy Zhou
1. Gouqi porridge: medlar 30g, rice 60g. Cook the rice until it is half cooked, and then add Lycium barbarum to cook it. It is especially suitable for patients with dizziness, tinnitus, nocturnal emission and soreness of waist and knees. Taking wolfberry porridge for hepatitis patients has a good effect on protecting liver and promoting hepatocyte regeneration.
2. Lycium barbarum jujube yam porridge: This porridge can nourish the liver and replenish blood, strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness.
3. Pork liver mung bean porridge (sheep liver is better): fresh pig liver 100g, mung bean 60g, rice 100g, salt and monosodium glutamate. First, wash mung beans and rice and cook them together, then cook them with low fire until they are 80% cooked, then put sliced or striped pork liver in a pot and cook them together, and then add seasonings. This porridge has the functions of nourishing liver and blood, clearing away heat and improving eyesight, beautifying and moistening skin, and can make people radiant, especially suitable for people with sallow complexion, poor eyesight and blurred vision.