Nourishing the liver is nourishing life: four signs remind you that there is something wrong with the liver.

After the Spring Festival, at the beginning of the new year, everything revived. As the saying goes, "a year's plan lies in spring, and a day's plan lies in the morning." Spring is the first of the four seasons and the most important time of the year. Only when spring grows well can summer flourish, autumn harvest and winter harvest.

But at the same time, the climate is changeable at this time. Sometimes the sun is shining and the spring breeze gets warmer; Sometimes it rains continuously and it's freezing, so many people call spring the season of "a hundred herbs sprout and all diseases break out".

Therefore, keeping in good health in spring is put on the agenda by everyone who has been lazy for a winter.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that liver belongs to wood and spring belongs to wood in the five elements, corresponding to liver. Therefore, the liver should be the first of the five internal organs, and spring is a good time to nourish the liver.

Before we know how to raise the liver, let's talk about what will happen to our body when the liver is "injured".

The most intuitive change is the decline of our sleep quality. When you have these symptoms while sleeping, you should be alert to whether the liver has been "slack".

Four signs of sleep indicate that the liver is not good.

Chinese medicine believes that "when people lie down, blood will return to the liver", which means that when people fall asleep, the whole body blood will return to the liver to detoxify.

People spend about one-third of their life in sleep. If they don't get enough sleep for a long time, it will lead to less blood reflux in the liver, decreased immunity and liver damage.

Symptoms 1: insomnia is easy to wake up.

In life, many people always sleep between dreams and waking. They will wake up when there is any movement, but they can't sleep after tossing and turning. The main problem is that they are full of anger.

The exuberance of liver fire affects the autonomic nerves on the surface of the liver, which makes people often lose sleep at night, have difficulty falling asleep or often wake up in the middle of the night, and often wake up at 1~3 in the morning.

Anger is caused by hyperactivity of liver fire, and can also be manifested as irritability, dry mouth and dry stool.

Sign 2: grind your teeth while sleeping.

Many people often dream and even talk in their sleep at night. Such people don't think too much, maybe there is something wrong with their liver.

The heart hides the soul, and the liver hides the soul. People lie in blood and return to the liver. In the sleep center, both the spirit and the liver and soul will be nourished by blood, so that the human body can enter a deep sleep. However, if the brain, liver and soul are not nourished by blood, they will be restless, and then they will dream more and gnash their teeth.

Symptom 3: Cramp in the calf.

There may be three reasons for calf cramps when sleeping: first, due to hyperlipidemia, blood oxygen supply is insufficient; Second, calcium deficiency; Third, there is something wrong with the liver.

Because "the liver dominates the muscle", when the liver function begins to weaken and toxins accumulate in the body, it will naturally affect the body's tendons and veins for a long time. Once affected, there will often be persistent calf cramps.

Symptom 4: Get up often at night.

The liver is the master of the digestive system, which not only has the function of relieving spleen and stomach, but also promotes bile secretion.

If there is something wrong with the liver, then the spleen and stomach will be out of balance and bile will not be secreted normally. Over time, it will cause absorption disorders and diarrhea. If you get up frequently when you sleep at night, you can't find the reason, maybe there is something wrong with your liver.

When we find that the liver has been "hurt" because of carelessness on weekdays, the first thing to do is to pay close attention to nourishing the liver!

The method of nourishing liver has been talked about by Dr. Glycyrrhiza many times, from eating and drinking to daily life, from moxibustion to exercise and so on. Among them, nourishing the liver by eating and drinking must be the most suitable for everyone.

However, there is a problem that needs our special attention: when nourishing the liver in spring, we must pay attention to the taste of food. Because there is a taste that can nourish the liver, and there is another taste that hurts the liver if you eat too much!

If you don't believe me, keep reading, and you will know what these two flavors mean and why ~

Blindly hurting the liver and blindly nourishing it.

The liver is an organ with important functions such as metabolism, detoxification, defense and blood coagulation, and it bears the important responsibility of "detoxifying and protecting the body". No matter what the human body eats, it is all ingested, and after a round of transformation and absorption, the residual toxins are discharged.

But the liver is fragile, and it is most likely to become "fat" (fatty liver) and "hard" (cirrhosis). If you don't do a good job of nourishing and protecting the liver at ordinary times, the accumulated toxins will bring great burden and hidden dangers to the body.

What I'm talking about here is "keeping acid to sweeten" and "reducing acid to sweeten". In the vernacular, in order to nourish the liver in spring, we should eat less sour and more sweet.

Friends who know something about TCM health preservation may wonder:

The five elements have five flavors, and the liver corresponds to acid. Why does it hurt the liver?

Didn't Chinese medicine say "acid tonifies the liver"?

Actually, everyone is right.

Huangdi Neijing said, "The wind of the East produces wood, and wood produces acid, and acid produces liver".

When the human body ingests sour food, it has astringent effect after entering the liver, which can limit the liver qi and prevent it from rising excessively, thus ensuring that the liver blood can be stored. Therefore, Chinese medicine has always said that "acid supplements the liver."

But the problem is that the liver is active in spring, but when the liver is prosperous, the liver qi should be born naturally. At this time, if you eat too much sour food, it will lead to excessive convergence of liver qi and excessive liver fire, which will affect the growth of liver qi, smooth veins and damage the spleen and stomach.

On the contrary, if you eat more sweet, it is good for nourishing and protecting the liver. There are two reasons:

First, sweets have always been nourishing and neutral, which can alleviate the symptoms of impatience, irritability, anxiety and poor vein caused by "liver bitterness" to a certain extent.

Second, in the view of Chinese medicine, spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood metaplasia; Spleen and stomach are full of qi, and people can prolong life. From the perspective of modern medicine, the regenerative capacity of hepatocytes is closely related to the nutritional status of the body.

Therefore, nourishing the liver and protecting the spleen and stomach is also very important. Sweet food can enter the spleen and nourish the stomach, which contributes to the biochemistry of qi and blood, thus protecting liver function.

Note: reducing acid is not to ban acid, but to eat less.

These two flavors of liver injury and nourishing can be summed up in four words-reducing acid and increasing sweetness, which is also the secret of nourishing liver in spring!

A cup of tea nourishes your liver in spring.

In addition, I would like to remind you that just because you are sleeping well now, you don't have acne, acne or sallow complexion, you don't think that your liver is fine. By the time something goes wrong, it will be too late.

The liver is easy to be grumpy in spring and needs gentle comfort most. And if you want to restore the health of the liver, at this time, you need a cup of tea to nourish the liver and reduce the fire-chrysanthemum medlar cassia seed liver protection tea.

Detoxification:

1. Burdock root: Dispel wind and heat, reduce swelling and detoxify.

2. chicory root: Clearing liver and benefiting gallbladder, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion, diuresis and detumescence.

Remove fat:

3. Fetal chrysanthemum: dispelling wind and clearing heat, calming the liver and improving eyesight.

4. Cassia seed: clearing liver and improving eyesight, diuretic and laxative.

Anti-inflammatory:

5. Mulberry leaves: dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing lung and moistening dryness, clearing liver and improving eyesight.

6. honeysuckle: clearing heat and detoxifying, cool and hot.

Repair and nourish:

7. medlar: nourishing liver and kidney and benefiting eyes.

8. Polygonatum sibiricum: Yiqi Yangyin, Jianpi Runfei, Yishen.

9. Mulberry: nourishing blood and nourishing yin, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness.

10. Poria cocos: it can moisten the body and promote water, benefit the spleen and stomach, and calm the heart and soothe the nerves.

1 1. Dandelion root: clearing liver and improving eyesight, promoting diuresis and relaxing bowels.

Overall efficacy: