Traditional Chinese Medicine teaches you how to identify toxins in your body!

Throughout the year, the body has accumulated a lot of toxins. It is time to detoxify! Detoxification starts from our internal organs. So how do we know whether our internal organs need detoxification?

Ways to check if your liver is toxic:

1. There are raised ridges or depressions on the surface of the nails. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "the liver governs the tendons" and nails are part of the "tendons", so when toxins accumulate in the liver, there will be obvious signals on the nails.

2. Breast hyperplasia occurs, and premenstrual breast pain increases significantly. The mammary gland is a fortress on the route of the liver meridian. Once there is "poison" in the liver meridian, breast hyperplasia will occur immediately. Especially when menstrual blood is about to be discharged, it will become obviously swollen and painful due to the fullness of qi and blood.

3. Easily depressed. The liver is the organ in the body that regulates emotions. Once the toxins in the liver cannot be discharged in time, the flow of qi will be blocked, which will cause obvious negative emotions.

4. Migraine, acne on both sides of the face, and dysmenorrhea. The two sides of the face and the lower abdomen are the "three-acre land" of the Liver Meridian and its partner, the Gallbladder Meridian. Once the liver's detoxification is not smooth, the backyard will catch fire first.

How to check if your heart is toxic:

1. Tongue ulcers. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the tongue and the heart have the closest relationship, so when ulcers appear on the tongue, it is usually considered to be due to internal heat in the heart, or fire poison.

2. Acne on the forehead. The forehead is a territory under the jurisdiction of the heart. When the heart fire is strong and becomes fire poison, this territory will also boil, and many pimples will appear one after another.

3. Insomnia and palpitations. The heart is working non-stop. When the fire poison stays in the heart and cannot be eliminated, sleep will not be peaceful.

4. Chest tightness or stabbing pain. Blood stasis in the heart is also a kind of toxin, just like a traffic jam on the road. Mild symptoms include chest tightness, while severe symptoms include tingling.

How to detoxify your heart:

1. Eat bitter food to detoxify.

The first choice is lotus seed core, which tastes bitter and can disperse heart fire. Although it is cold in nature, it will not damage the body's yang energy, so it has always been considered the best food for dissolving heart heat and toxins. You can make tea with lotus seed cores. You might as well add some bamboo leaves or raw licorice to enhance the detoxification effect of the lotus seed cores.

2. Press the key points for detoxification of the heart.

This refers to Shaofu point, which is located in the palm of the hand, between the 4th and 5th metacarpal bones, between the tips of the little finger and ring finger when making a fist. You may press this point with some force, alternating between your left and right hands.

3. Mung beans are diuretic and detoxifying.

Mung beans can dissolve and excrete toxins from the heart through diuretic and heat-clearing methods, but mung beans should be eaten in liquid form, such as mung bean milk or mung bean soup. The effect of mung bean cake will be worse.

Best time to detoxify your heart

11:00-1:00 noon is the time when the heart is strongest. You can eat some heart-protecting and detoxifying foods, such as Poria cocos, nuts, soybeans, black sesame seeds, jujubes, lotus seeds, etc.

How to check if the spleen is toxic:

1. Pigmentation spots appear on the face. Women with freckles usually have weaker digestive systems.

2. Excessive vaginal discharge. The spleen is responsible for removing moisture from the body. If there is too much moisture and it exceeds the capacity of the spleen, there will be excessive moisture in the body, and increased vaginal discharge is one of the manifestations.

3. Fat accumulation. Fat has another name in traditional Chinese medicine: phlegm and dampness. It is caused by poor digestive function of the spleen, which cannot excrete waste and toxins from the body in time. Effective weight loss must focus on restoring the normal metabolism of phlegm and dampness in the spleen and stomach, otherwise it will rebound.

4. Obvious bad breath, acne or ulcers around the lips. The area around the lips belongs to the spleen. When the toxins in the spleen cannot be excreted from the body, the accumulated toxins will look for opportunities to burst out from these places.

How to detoxify the spleen more smoothly:

1. Eating sour food helps the spleen detoxify.

For example, black plums and vinegar are the best foods to dissolve toxins in food. They can enhance the digestive function of the stomach and intestines, and excrete toxins in food from the body in the shortest time. At the same time, sour foods also have the effect of strengthening the spleen and can serve as a good "anti-toxic food".

2. Press the key points for spleen detoxification.

This refers to Shangqiu point, which is located in the depression below the front of the inner ankle. Press and rub the point with your fingers, maintaining a feeling of soreness and heaviness. Do it for about 3 minutes each time, alternating between the two feet.

3. Take a walk after dinner.

Exercise can help the spleen and stomach digest and speed up the excretion of toxins, but it requires long-term persistence to achieve better results.

Best time for spleen detoxification

After meals is the time when toxins are most likely to be produced. If food cannot be digested or absorbed in time, a lot of toxins will accumulate. In addition to taking a walk after a meal, you can also eat a piece of fruit one hour after a meal to help strengthen the spleen and detoxify, because sweet taste can strengthen the spleen.

How to check if your lungs are toxic:

1. The skin is rusty and dull. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lungs control the skin of the entire body. Whether the skin is moisturized and fair depends on the good function of the lungs. When there are more toxins in the lungs, the toxins will be deposited on the skin through the action of the lungs, making the skin look dull.

2. Constipation. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lungs and large intestine form a system. When there are toxins in the lungs above, there will be abnormal congestion in the intestines below, resulting in constipation.

3. Sentimental and easily sad. Toxins in the lungs will interfere with the circulation of qi and blood in the lungs, making it impossible for the lungs to relieve the stuffiness in the chest normally, causing people to become depressed and sentimental.