What Chinese patent medicine should I take for liver qi deficiency?

The liver is one of the more important organs in the human body. Why don’t we show symptoms of poisoning after our body ingests some toxins? It is mainly because the liver helps us detoxify. The liver filters blood throughout our body every 3 minutes, so it is working non-stop and needs to be well protected. There are many common liver diseases in life, such as the so-called liver qi deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine. What Chinese medicine should I take for this disease?

Traditional Chinese medicine has a saying that "the liver cannot be replenished with qi". Although the symptoms are of deficiency, the treatment should still be to soothe the liver and nourish the blood. Therefore, Sini San, Chaihu Shugan San and Xiaoyao San are used as the basic prescriptions, and additions and subtractions are made to adjust the treatment. Codonopsis pilosula, stir-fried jujube seeds, raw astragalus, raw rehmannia, white peony root, poria, bupleurum, cornus officinalis, wolfberry, and licorice. The patient recovered after taking 4 doses of medicine.

TCM focuses on syndrome differentiation in treating diseases. The theory, methods, prescriptions and medicines of TCM are the mainstay throughout the process. Although traditional Chinese medicine has the theory of liver qi deficiency and liver yang deficiency, it believes that all liver diseases are real diseases, while the only virtual diseases are liver yin deficiency and liver blood deficiency. In addition, when treating liver yin deficiency, people often start from the principle of “Yi and Gui have the same origin”. Therefore, in clinical practice, bitter and cold herbs are often used to treat liver diseases, which often leads to weakness of liver qi and liver yang.

In gynecological diseases, irregular menstruation, rib pain, dysmenorrhea and dizziness are common. For this type of patients, we need to invigorate Qi and warm Yang. Only in this way can the theory of Zang-Xiang in traditional Chinese medicine be further improved. When treating liver diseases, we must also consider the pathogenesis of liver qi deficiency and liver yang deficiency, and use medicine to reach the affected area. Don't use it for too long, so as not to go to extremes.

What soup can nourish the liver?

1. Mushroom, green bean and asparagus soup

Ingredients: 100g straw mushrooms, 200g green beans, 150g asparagus, 1 liter chicken broth, 1 red pepper, 1 teaspoon salt, half a teaspoon pepper.

Method: Wash the vegetables, slice the straw mushrooms, cut the asparagus into sections, and cut the red pepper into small pieces for later use. Heat the chicken soup, add the straw mushrooms and green beans, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for 10 minutes. Add asparagus and diced red pepper and bring to a boil over high heat. Finally, add salt and pepper to taste.

Efficacy: Nourishes the liver and stomach, nourishes and strengthens the body, lengthens tendons and bones, brightens the complexion, darkens hair and brightens eyes, and promotes the production of body fluids and diuresis.

2. Tomato and Pork Liver Soup

Ingredients: 300 grams of pork liver, 150 grams of tomatoes, 50 milliliters of oil, and appropriate amounts of salt, soy sauce, sesame oil, pepper, MSG and chopped green onion.

Preparation method: Wash the pork liver, cut it into thin slices, marinate it with a small amount of soy sauce and mix it evenly; blanch it with boiling water, peel and remove the seeds, and cut it into cubes. Heat oil in a wok, add tomatoes and chopped green onions and stir-fry for a while, add salt, soy sauce and appropriate amount of boiling water, pour in pork liver after the soup boils, stew until cooked through, sprinkle with pepper and MSG, serve in a soup bowl, and drizzle with sesame oil.

Efficacy: Rich fragrance, red color, nourishes blood and liver.

3. Chinese wolfberry and Polygonatum odoratum soup

Ingredients: 15 grams of wolfberry, 10 grams of polygonatum, 100 grams of lean pork, 3 slices of ginger, a small amount of green onion, salt and cooking wine.

Method: Wash wolfberry and polygonatum, add 800 ml of water, and soak for 15 minutes. Boil over high heat for five minutes, add the whole piece of lean pork, boil over high heat for ten minutes, then turn to low heat and simmer for fifteen minutes. Add chopped green onion, salt and cooking wine. Take out the meat, cut it into pieces, eat the meat and drink the soup.

Efficacy: Nourishes the liver and improves eyesight.