How to treat liver depression and blood stasis

Liver depression and blood stasis are mostly caused by frequent anger. In fact, we should try to avoid eating when we are angry, because at this time our liver and stomach will produce some gas. If we eat some food, it is easy to cause hiccups. This phenomenon is particularly likely to cause liver depression and blood stasis if it occurs for a long time. So how to regulate liver depression and blood stasis?

1. Symptoms: Liver depression and qi stagnation, qi stagnation and blood stasis, qi and blood deficiency.

2. Traditional Chinese Medicine conditioning: Under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine, start with traditional Chinese medicine conditioning to relieve liver qi. You can take Chaihu Shugan Powder orally, or take Guyuan Cake, Shugan Jianwei Pills, Xiaoyao Pills or Jiawei Xiaoyao Pills; under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine, massage the acupoints of the liver meridian from Xingjian to Taichong. In addition to taking Chinese medicine and Chinese massage, strengthening physical exercise is also the key to relieving liver qi.

3. Food conditioning: First of all, start with nourishing the spleen and stomach, eat less cold food, eat more yam, millet, water chestnut, etc., don’t eat too much meat and fish, and don’t overeat, it’s best to keep yourself 70% to 80% full; secondly, replenish qi and blood, foods include wolfberry, jujube, longan, walnut, black sesame, etc. While replenishing blood (be careful not to eat too much, otherwise you will get angry), pay attention to replenishing qi.

4. Strengthening physical exercise and adjusting one's emotions will help the patient's recovery. It is recommended to increase physical exercise appropriately, learn to strengthen self-control, take warm baths frequently, eat walnuts and black sesame seeds regularly, communicate more with friends and relatives, and quit smoking and drink less.

If you achieve the second, third, and fourth items above, your symptoms of liver depression, qi stagnation, qi stagnation, blood stasis, and qi and blood deficiency will improve.

The liver is the largest digestive and metabolic organ in the human body. If liver qi is severely stagnant, it will cause damage to the liver.

Patients with liver-qi stagnation can eat more foods that can soothe the liver and regulate qi, and reduce liver fire in their daily diet. Here are some foods that have a good regulating effect on liver-qi stagnation. Foods that can reduce liver fire include soybeans, cabbage, loofah, rapeseed, hawthorn, green sprouts, enoki mushrooms, etc.; foods that soothe the liver and regulate qi include cabbage, celery, bananas, tomatoes, chestnuts, carrots, pumpkin, yam, etc.

In addition to the two types of food introduced above, patients with liver qi stagnation can also eat some positive foods, such as leeks, yam, etc., and some fungal foods, such as mushrooms, white fungus and other foods.

People with liver depression and qi stagnation should avoid eating raw, cold, fried, or difficult-to-digest foods. In terms of diet, you can eat more foods that have the effect of soothing the liver and regulating qi, such as celery, basil, tomatoes, radishes, oranges, grapefruits, tangerines, citrons, bergamots, etc. If you have blood stasis, you can eat more black fungus, lotus root, arrowhead, vinegar, radish, etc., which have the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.