Spring solar term on February 4
The Spring Festival in the year of the tiger is coming, and the beginning of spring is coming. As the saying goes, spring is long and summer is long. Spring is the season of hair. When the sun rises, everything wakes up from the cold winter and begins to grow, ushering in a scene of prosperity. At the same time, spring is also a good time to nourish the liver. The liver belongs to wood. The Qi generated in spring helps to make the liver feel comfortable and keep people in a happy and healthy state. So, what effect does the liver have on the human body? How to nourish the liver next spring?
Liver controlling catharsis
Recuperate physical and mental health
In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, the liver is responsible for draining and storing blood, and is responsible for maintaining the dredging of the Qi mechanism of the whole body, so as to achieve the purpose of "sparse but not stagnant, scattered but not depressed". Liver clearing function can promote the digestion and absorption of spleen and stomach, maintain human blood circulation, regulate water metabolism and reproductive function, and also play a great role in maintaining mental health.
The liver is closely related to the spleen and stomach. According to the five elements theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the liver belongs to wood and the spleen belongs to soil, which means that the liver can maintain the normal rise and fall of the Qi of the spleen and stomach. If there is a problem with liver qi, whether the liver Qi is not comfortable or the Qi is too loose, it will directly affect the digestive function of the spleen and stomach, resulting in disharmony between the liver and the spleen and stomach. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is in charge of raising the clear and the stomach is in charge of reducing the turbid. When stomach qi is unhealthy, people will have symptoms such as loss of appetite, stomach pain, hiccups, acid reflux and even vomiting. When you lose your temper, you will have problems such as abdominal distension, irregular stool and so on.
At the same time, the liver also has the function of regulating human triple energizer, promoting lung, spleen and kidney to regulate water and fluid metabolism. Traditional Chinese medicine divides the circulation and metabolism of the human body into upper coke, middle coke and lower coke. Sanjiao is the channel of vital energy and water liquid. When the liver function is abnormal and the Qi mechanism of Sanjiao is blocked, it will lead to abnormal water metabolism, resulting in phlegm and edema. Lung accumulation can cause cough, chest tightness, expectoration and other symptoms, and stagnation of spleen and stomach can cause anorexia, nausea and vomiting. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine often adopts the method of soothing the liver and regulating qi when treating diseases caused by abnormal water and fluid metabolism.
In addition, the "emotion" often said in traditional Chinese medicine means that the normal mental state depends on the fluency of liver qi. Abnormal discharge of liver qi can be divided into two types: less discharge and more discharge. Less excretion will cause liver depression and qi stagnation, and people will show depression and sentimentality. Excessive discharge will cause hyperactivity of liver fire, resulting in irritability, redness of face and ears and headache.
Going beyond the limit is as bad as falling short.
The key to nourishing the liver is fluency
There was once a patient who suspected that he had liver cirrhosis. Various tests showed that he was fine. When she asked why she suspected that she had liver disease, she said that she often felt pain and discomfort in the liver, and later found that the symptoms were caused by liver depression and qi stagnation. Liver clearing function can regulate people's spirit, and the mental state will also affect the health of the liver.
Most people with high work pressure and often in a state of mental tension have liver depression and qi stagnation. Poor liver Qi will aggravate mental depression and cause liver pain. If the stagnation of liver Qi is not relieved and the treatment time is too long, blood stasis and phlegm obstruction may occur, resulting in a variety of nodular diseases, such as common thyroid nodules, breast nodules, lung nodules and so on. And serious diseases such as hysteromyoma and mass.
On the other hand, people with liver fire are prone to spleen, stomach and cardiopulmonary problems. Excessive catharsis and imbalance of liver Qi are easy to "invade the spleen and occupy the stomach", leading to digestive system diseases; Qi Ru
Nourishing liver in winter and spring
Conform to natural solar terms
It's cold in winter, everything is closed, and popularity is in the kidney. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine believes that we should nourish the kidney in winter. Traditional Chinese medicine "liver and kidney are homologous", and liver blood is transformed from kidney essence. In winter, tonifying the kidney can also nourish liver blood and enhance the blood storage function of the liver. Nourishing kidney and liver can not only rely on tonic, but also need to adapt to the changes of natural environment. Pay attention to keep warm in winter and don't sweat too much, because the cold air will not only hurt Yang Qi and cause diseases, but also lead to yin deficiency of liver and kidney. 003010 says that "if you have typhoid fever in winter, it will be warm in spring", "if you don't hide essence in winter, it will be warm in spring", that is to say, if you are attacked by cold evil in winter, or don't pay attention to the protection of kidney qi, you will cause deficiency of kidney essence, and you will be prone to fever and other infectious diseases next spring.
In spring, nourishing the liver needs to conform to the natural Qi of hair. The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic Su Wen said, "in spring and March, this is called Chen FA. Heaven and earth are born and everything is prosperous. Get up early at night and walk widely in court. The hair is slowed down to activate the mind." It's about getting up early in spring, increasing outdoor activities, wearing loose clothes, fully stretching your body and maintaining a carefree mood. But at the same time, in early spring, the weather is still cold and the Yang of the human body is weak. We should pay attention to keeping warm. The old saying "spring covers autumn" is very reasonable.
In diet, we also need to adapt to nature. In spring, you can eat more spicy food, such as shallots and parsley, and you can also eat more bean sprouts, mung bean sprouts, Chinese toon sprouts and other sprouts to help the human body grow hair better and avoid raw and cold food. Nourishing the liver in spring should follow the principle of "more sweet and less sour". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sour taste enters the liver. Eating too much sour food when liver Qi sprouts in spring is likely to cause stagnation of liver qi, which is not conducive to the development of liver qi. However, bananas, millet and other sweets into the spleen can not only strengthen the spleen and stomach, but also achieve the purpose of nourishing the liver.
Tips
Protect your liver during the Spring Festival
As the Spring Festival holiday is approaching, we should pay attention to the following points for nourishing the liver:
Drinking alcohol injures the liver, and long-term excessive drinking leads to alcoholic fatty liver. If you want to nourish your liver, you'd better not drink alcohol, especially for patients with liver disease.
Don't overeat. Try to eat less "fat, sweet and thick flavor", that is, greasy, sweet and greasy food and spicy food with heavy taste, which will affect the catharsis function of the liver.
Pay attention to maintaining a normal and healthy work and rest. Good sleep helps nourish the liver and blood. Staying up late will consume liver blood.
The mood should be cheerful and steady. Too much happiness will also affect the smoothness of liver qi.
