Problem: The liver is the largest digestive organ in the human body. The liver, like the heart, is an important pillar of a healthy life, so we should preserve the liver. Why drain the liver?
Answer: The liver is an important organ of the human body. We should protect it, nourish it and protect it. Nourishing the liver is not simply nourishing the liver, but according to the physiological characteristics of the liver, orderly discharging and conditioning the qi-flowing, so as to make the qi-flowing smooth, so as to give full play to the normal physiological function of the liver and the normal operation of other viscera.
Why does the liver drain?
Health care has always been based on tonic, why should the liver drain? This is related to the physiological characteristics of the liver. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, one of the functions of the liver is that the liver governs the discharge. What does drainage mean? Dredging is dredging and fluency, and venting is excretion and catharsis. The ancients highly summarized the functions of the liver, and the specific functions can be summarized as follows:
(1) Emotionally. The liver is closely related to the patency of qi in human body. The liver has the function of combing the internal qi of human body. When the function of the liver is normal, people's mood will be good, which is naturally beneficial to health. When liver qi is unfavorable and qi and blood are out of balance, qi and blood will be disordered, and people will be unhappy, silent, suspicious and thoughtful. Or emotional, manifested as impatience and irritability, insomnia and dreaminess. On the other hand, depression and anger can also lead to abnormal liver function, poor qi movement, fullness in chest and hypochondrium, dizziness and other diseases.
(2) digestion. The dispersing function of the liver can help the spleen and stomach to straighten out qi-flowing, so that the clear qi rises and the turbid qi falls. The subtle Shui Gu is distributed all over the body, and the residual dregs can be passed down to the large intestine and excreted. Therefore, the release of liver is an important condition for the spleen and stomach to maintain normal digestive function. The formation, secretion and excretion of bile are closely related to the antidiarrheal function of the liver, and bile is directly related to the digestion of food, so the liver governing antidiarrheal can directly affect Shui Gu's digestion.
If the liver is not well drained, it will affect the digestion of the spleen and stomach and the secretion and excretion of bile, leading to abnormal digestive system diseases. In addition to chest pain, irritability or depression, it is often accompanied by bad temper symptoms such as belching, nausea, abdominal distension and diarrhea.
(3) blood circulation. The operation of qi and blood also depends on the function of soothing the liver and regulating qi. If there is qi disorder, qi disorder or qi stagnation, blood will also run poorly, and women may have menstrual blood clots, skin ecchymosis and even bleeding.