If the heart is compared to the king, the liver is a righteous general. The king's safety requires it to protect (hiding blood to nourish the heart), and the foreign enemy's invasion requires it to defend (detoxify). However, anger will hurt the liver and the body will be in chaos.
From the perspective of the lifting and lowering of the qi, the liver qi should be smooth and smooth. If soft, the blood will be harmonious. If depression is , the qi will be reversed by . When a person is angry, he will always feel blood rushing upwards, and then he will have symptoms such as blushing face, unable to eat, and chest tightness and abdominal pain. This is because "anger means qi rises", and liver qi is too generated. The liver stores blood, and the blood rushes to the head as the qi moves upward, and dizziness, blushing face and thick neck will occur. "Su Wen·Theory of Ejaculation and the Heavenly Relationship" says, "If you are angry, your body will be exhausted, and your blood will be stolen from the top, making people thin and ." The consequences of getting angry are more than these.
The liver will be dispersed and discharged, and the liver qi will rush around in the body like a wild horse; the liver qi will be inverted from the spleen, and the spleen will be inverted from the transportation and transformation, and you will feel abdominal distension and invert from the stomach, and you will be hiccups , unable to eat, and in severe cases, even vomiting blood. Therefore, if you want to protect your liver, you must be less angry.
Two ways to vent liver qi:
After getting angry, do not hold the qi in your heart, so that the liver qi cannot be vented. The liver meridian runs through both sides of the flanks, and the breast is the necessary place for the liver meridian. liver qi stagnates , which will lead to breast hyperplasia over time. There is no way to nourish the liver, only to break the liver. There is a good way to crack the liver qi stagnation, that is, cry. According to the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine, the liver is wood, which has the characteristics of growth and growth, which is in ambition, which is anger; the lungs are metal, which is sadness; metal can overcome wood, so sadness overcomes anger. When a person is angry, if he wants to vent his anger, crying is a good choice.
You can also massage the liver and gallbladder area of the right rib: use the thumb, food, and middle fingers to pinch the skin of the right rib, twist it from top to bottom, and repeat for 3 minutes; open the palm, overlap one or both palms, press and place it on the right rib, and rub it horizontally from right to left for 3 minutes to make the local skin hot. This method can directly stimulate the liver and gallbladder , thereby achieving the effect of relieving the liver and regulating qi and regulating the qi.
Content source: Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine National Medical Hall WeChat public account
Organized and edited by: Journal of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
Correspondent: Sun Lei Qin Shasha Li Jinhuan Wang Jingjing Dong Wei
