The best way to nourish your liver

Liver care is very important. We need to protect the liver reasonably in our daily life. Only a healthy liver can ensure a healthy life. If there is a problem with the liver, it will also lead to a disorder in a person's life functions. Frequent drinking, not paying attention to diet, and staying up late for a long time are the main factors that lead to liver problems. They need to be properly adjusted in daily life.

Before bed

It is most important to fall asleep at 11pm. What is particularly important is not what you eat, but when you sleep. Don’t go to bed late. If you fall asleep at 11 o’clock at night, many minor problems can be cured by sleeping yourself away. Friends who have trouble sleeping can try to improve it from the following aspects:

Keep massaging: Rub Yongquan, Zusanli and Taichong before going to bed. Keep massaging, it is really effective.

Soaking your feet in hot water: There are three principles for soaking your feet. First, the water should almost cover the knees. Second, the water temperature should be hot enough and tolerable. Third, you should soak until your body sweats slightly, so that the blood in the whole body can circulate up and down. However, too much is not good enough. Please use a reasonable scale when soaking your feet.

Don't play with your phone. Nowadays, many young people like to play with their mobile phones before going to bed, and they play for one or two hours. The more they play with their mobile phones, the more they can't sleep. However, excessive use of mobile phones can cause fatigue and damage the liver.

Don't eat late-night snacks. Many people feel hungry when it is almost ten o'clock. Eating a midnight snack before going to bed will cause indigestion and make them feel uncomfortable in their stomach when they wake up in the morning. Secondly, it will increase the burden on the liver and is not good for the stomach and intestines.

If you already have liver disease, you should sit quietly with your eyes closed and relax after eating. Closing your eyes and resting can nourish yin and remove dryness, especially closing your eyes for 20 minutes after a meal, which can protect the liver and aid food. You should close your eyes and rest even more after a meal.

After people finish their meals (especially lunch, because people usually eat more at lunch), the blood in the body is concentrated in the digestive tract to participate in the digestion of food.

In general, you should sit quietly for 10 to 30 minutes after a meal before engaging in other activities to protect your liver and avoid worsening of liver disease.

Liver care methods

A push will open up the liver meridian. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the liver is responsible for the regulation of qi. Once the liver qi is unblocked, all meridians will be unblocked. However, the liver qi is most easily affected by emotions. Unhappiness can easily lead to liver depression. Once the liver qi is depressed, people will become even more unhappy. To open the liver meridian, the key is to push.

Push the feet: first the left foot and then the right foot, push from the instep along the seams towards the toes, use a little force until you feel sore, do this fifty times for each foot.

Leg push: Sit down, bend your legs and flatten your knees. Cross your palms and press them on the inside of the left thigh. Use a little force to push forward to the knee, first left then right, 50 times each.

Push the ribs: Make fists with both hands, bend elbows, and use a little force on the elbow joints to clamp the ribs. Then straighten and bend your arms, so that the upper arms can repeatedly rub the ribs until they become hot.

Singing is a good way to let off steam. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that: "The liver is anger in the mind and shouting in the voice." When we feel the liver qi is uncomfortable, we want to shout loudly. Why? Because shouting can relieve the liver qi and make us feel more comfortable. If we sing at this time, it is equivalent to relieving the depression in our hearts. If you have a poor appetite, singing happily will definitely help you feel your appetite improve. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "the spleen is the mind in terms of intention and the voice in terms of song". Therefore, singing can also relieve the stagnation of earth and make the spleen and stomach qi flow smoothly. In addition, when we sing, we will speed up our breathing rhythmically, which will speed up the breathing through the lungs, increase the circulation of Qi and blood, and increase the chance of restoring positive energy.