As one of the five important organs of our body and the only detoxification organ in our body, the liver has a great impact on our digestive and physical and mental health.
If you feel chest tightness and discomfort from time to time recently, often have cramps in your calf, are prone to irritability, and have insomnia and dreams at night, then you should pay attention. This is very likely that there is a problem with your liver function.
In life, people are prone to accidentally hurting their liver without knowing it. Today, let’s talk about the major minefields of that hurt the liver. Let’s see how many of you have been hit?
Wrong eating habits
■ Overeating. Eating too much food in will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. Long-term consumption of high-fat and high-protein foods will induce fatty liver, so we should avoid overeating.
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■Don’t eat breakfast. Not eating breakfast is more likely to cause liver problems. After sleeping for a night, the food in your stomach is basically consumed. Eating breakfast can prolong our feeling of fullness, neutralize stomach acid and protect the liver.
Taking medicine randomly can damage the liver
Nowadays, living standards have improved. Many middle-aged and elderly people like to stock some health products . In fact, what Wei Yijun wants to say is that it is completely unnecessary because it is a medicine that is three parts poisonous.
In addition, many people believe that traditional Chinese medicine is more nourishing than Western medicine, and its medicinal properties are relatively mild. In fact, the pharmacological activity of traditional Chinese herbs is very complex. Many Chinese medicines are hepatotoxic. If you eat , if you eat too much, you will become sick without illness, and you will truly "moan without illness".
Anger hurts the liver
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that seven emotions and six desires will harm the human body in excessive situations, especially when people get angry when they get angry qi is reversed, and blood flows with the qi, so it hurts the liver.
According to some research data, diseases that exceed 85% are related to the psychological factors of , which is actually 7 liver qi stagnation .
such as thyroid nodules , breast nodules , digestive system tumors, most of the tumors in women are mostly related to liver qi stagnation.
Staying up late to hurt the liver
In traditional Chinese medicine theory, the liver is responsible for storing blood, and the liver is responsible for venting and dispersing, so blood is an important material basis for the liver to perform normal functions. When sleeping at night, blood should return to the liver to rest and reserve so that the liver can perform normal functions.
If you stay up late, your blood will not return to your liver normally. In the long run, blood will be depleted .
If people do not rest at night, liver cannot normally perform the function of dispersing and detoxifying, , so it will cause great harm to the body.
already knows that the four things mentioned above will cause great harm to the liver, and you will stay away from it from now on!
So in daily life activities, how should we nourish the liver? Traditional Chinese medicine will give you tips~
daily liver care tips
01 To nourish the liver, eat more green
Traditional Chinese medicine theory says that the liver is responsible for venting and venting. green enters the liver, and eating more green food can not only eliminate fatigue and relieve liver depression , but also relieve internal toxicity of the liver.
spinach that promotes blood circulation and nourishes liver blood; asparagus that repairs liver function and prevents liver steatosis; leek that can regulate liver qi and helps liver qi rise and rise, are all good "liver-nourishing holy products".
02 Choose the right tea drink to protect the liver better
Drinking tea is one of the easiest ways to protect the liver.
If you liver yin is insufficient (dry eyes, blurred vision) - Drink red date wolfberry , which not only nourishes liver blood, but also moistens liver yin ;
If you liver fire is strong (red, swollen and painful eyes) - you can drink summer chrysanthemum tea or chrysanthemum tea , clears liver heat and removes liver fire is a great choice.
03 Massage and tap the liver meridian
liver meridian, that is, foot Jueyin liver meridian , there are 14 acupoints on one side of the inner side of the person’s thigh.
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usually get up every morning, can use your hands to knock back and forth along the inner thigh to see where the pain is more painful, which means that " liver poison " may be hidden.
In addition, massage Sanyinjiao, Taichong acupoint , etc. can also help treat chronic hepatitis, weak liver function and other diseases.
04 Keep a happy mood and protect your liver
Life is often unsatisfactory. In the face of dissatisfaction and shortcomings in life, we must learn to let go and avoid violent emotional fluctuations in order to make our body and mind healthy.
At the same time, maintain a certain amount of exercise every day. If the liver qi is strong, the mood will be more pleasant.
The liver is a very important digestive organ in the human body. If the liver is damaged, the consequences will be very serious. liver damage to is the most serious consequence of liver failure, and and the mortality rate of liver failure is very high.
So readers and friends must treat their liver well in daily life and don’t do things that hurt the liver anymore!
