The Spring Festival is an important traditional festival in China, and every household will hold various celebrations. However, with the development of society, the phenomenon of excessive drinking by some people is also becoming more and more common, especially during the Spring Festival. They often sang every night, and they were very lively and drunk, which caused a lot of damage to the liver.
During the Spring Festival, people tend to attend various gatherings one after another, and the banquet is full of wine. Some people have to drink once a day, or even more than one day, in order to socialize. In this case, the liver needs to be constantly treated for hangover, and prolonged overload can lead to impaired liver function and even serious liver disease.
Drinking alcohol and staying up late are harmful to the liver.
Drink. After drinking, alcohol is mainly metabolized in the liver, if excessive drinking, it may increase the burden on the liver, and in the process of decomposing alcohol, the metabolite acetaldehyde will be produced, which will damage liver function to a certain extent, resulting in a decline in liver function.
For those who have been heavy drinkers all year round, excessive drinking during the Chinese New Year period is even worse. Their livers are already in a sub-healthy state, and the excessive alcohol consumption during the Spring Festival has greatly increased the burden on the liver. As a result, the risk of liver disease increases significantly. Not only that, long-term alcohol consumption will cause fat infiltration in the liver, and the fat content will gradually increase, forming an alcoholic liver. With the further development of alcoholic liver, there will be different degrees of fibrosis in the liver, and if it is not actively corrected and improved, it will eventually lead to the formation of pseudolobules, cirrhosis, and portal hypertension.
Stay up late. During the Chinese New Year, family and friends gather, staying up late is now common like eating, and young people suffer greatly. You must know that staying up late can cause great damage to the liver.
The liver is the largest detoxification organ in the human body, which has the functions of secreting bile, metabolism, detoxification, and blood coagulation. In traditional Chinese medicine, 1 o'clock to 3 o'clock is the order of the liver meridian, and the liver should be detoxified at this time, but normal detoxification should be carried out in deep sleep. If the patient stays up late and does not fall asleep between 1 and 3 o'clock, it will increase the burden on the liver, so that the liver cannot remove toxins from the body, and fresh qi and blood cannot be generated, and the liver cannot be nourished. At the same time, the liver is unable to eliminate toxins from the body, which will lead to the accumulation of toxins in the liver, damaging the cells of the liver, so that the liver cells that are damaged during the day cannot repair themselves. So staying up late can harm the liver and affect liver function.
How can it be remedied? I've stayed up all night, I've drunk wine, and my liver is hurting, so how can I help it recuperate now?
For people who drink too much, they should focus on dispelling dampness, because wine is damp and hot, you can eat more barley and other foods that have the effect of dispelling dampness, and you can also go to the pharmacy to buy kudzu soaked water to relieve hangover, and the effect of honey is also not bad, it can be quickly decomposed and absorbed by the human body to generate liver glycogen, and liver glycogen has a certain hepatoprotective effect.
There are also two simple and easy massage methods that can also protect the liver. The first method is to press and knead the tendons - straighten the soles of the feet, there will be a hard tendon protruding, this is the tendon, this tendon belongs to the liver meridian, and kneading for ten minutes every night can improve liver function. The second method is to massage the Taichong acupoint, in the instep of the foot.
Between the first and second phalanges, rubbing 30 times a day can also make the liver healthier.