We usually pay attention to tonifying the kidney, tonifying the spleen, and rarely paying attention to the health of the liver, which leads to many people having insufficient liver and blood.
Recently I met a 50-year-old female friend. She mainly wanted to see her insomnia, and she reported that she usually had difficulty falling asleep, and she kept dreaming after falling asleep. The mood is a little irritable, and at the same time, it is also accompanied by dry eyes, blurred vision, fatigue and fatigue, heavy limbs, soreness in the waist and knees, numbness in the hands and feet, and a dull pain in the flank area. I observed her complexion and tongue, and found that she was relatively dry with fine lines, pale and bloodless, and her tongue was light, with little moss, and her tongue was not moist. Combined with these manifestations, I judged that she was mainly due to liver blood insufficiency.
She accounted for all the five major manifestations of liver blood insufficiency. Let's take a look at the first one, Chinese medicine believes that the liver stores blood, and blood has a nourishing effect. If the liver and blood are deficient and the skin is not nourished, it will become dry and colorless. Then there is the problem of dry eyes and blurred vision, and the liver is open to the eyes, which means that the essence and qi of the liver pass through the eyes, and the eyesight mainly depends on the nourishment of liver blood, so when the liver blood is insufficient, it will affect the eyes. In addition, the main tendons of the liver, which govern the tendons and ligaments of the body, and the lack of liver blood can easily lead to the loss of nutrients in the meridians, so there will be numbness in the hands and feet. The liver meridian travels through the two hypochondriacs, so when the liver blood is insufficient, the operation of the liver meridian will also be abnormal, resulting in the situation of pain if it is not honorable, which is reflected in the body is the faint pain of the two hypochondriacs. Finally, there is the problem of sleep, there is a saying in Chinese medicine that when people lie down, the blood returns to the liver, that is to say, when people are resting, the blood is returned to the liver, and the liver blood can yang the heart and liver soul, so as to enter deep sleep. Then now that her liver and blood are insufficient, her mind and liver and soul are not nourished by blood, and she will be restless, causing a dreamy situation.
So for her situation, we have two ways here.
The first strengthens the spleen and stomach. The spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow, and they can transport the subtlety of the water valley. So where does our liver blood come from?It is from the subtleties of these water valleys that the food absorbs these nutrients through the movement of the spleen and stomach, and then transforms into qi and blood. If the qi and blood are strong, the blood can be hidden in the liver, and the liver blood will be sufficient to sleep peacefully. If the spleen and stomach are weak, the metaplasia of qi and blood is insufficient, and the liver blood cannot be generated, so at this time, we need to use some methods to strengthen the spleen and stomach and nourish the blood.
The second one can start with the kidneys. The kidneys are the foundation of innateness. If the kidney essence is insufficient, the liver will consume a large amount of yin blood to fill the kidney essence, which will also consume a large amount of liver and blood deficiency. Therefore, while replenishing the liver and blood, we should also take into account the tonic kidney essence. When the function of kidney essence and qi and blood is sufficient, our liver and blood will be replenished, so that the liver and kidney can be replenished at the same time, and the spleen and stomach can be better nourished by the liver and blood.
So after she used my plan, she told me when we met for the second time that this time my sleep was finally better, and I stopped dreaming, and my complexion also came up, like some dry eyes, blurred vision, and pain.
The liver is an important organ of the human body, which not only stores blood, but also manages the excretion of the body, and is responsible for removing toxins and garbage from the body. If something goes wrong with the liver, other organs in the body will also be affected, so it's important to take care of the liver.