We rely on the liver for detoxification and mood regulation, and the liver always bears silently and silently suffers from diseases - therefore, it is very important to know how to nourish the liver and protect the liver. It is not difficult to do a good job of basic diet and exercise, you only need to identify 3 types of food, supplemented by daily health exercises, to achieve liver health.
Among the five-color foods, green foods are mainly used in the liver meridian, which plays the role of clearing heat and detoxifying, soothing the liver and strengthening the liver. Common ones include mung beans, spinach, broccoli, cucumbers, loofahs, celery, green peppers, chrysanthemum, lettuce, camellia, rape, green beans, water spinach, bitter gourd, etc.
Clinically, people with strong liver fire, if it is a real fire, often have the characteristics of headache and bitter mouth, irritable mood, and easy impulsiveness, which is caused by liver fire inflammation, and should be mainly diarrhea. Whether it is medicinal therapy or dietary therapy, consider bitter cold or sweet cold products, such as prunella vulgaris, wild chrysanthemum, bitter gourd, mung bean, etc.
If the liver is deficient and the fire is vigorous, there are often dizziness, hot flashes and night sweats, soreness in the waist and knees, insomnia and dreams, and it should be supplemented. You can choose salty and cold foods, sweet and cold foods, medicines, such as raw land, watermelon, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the sour taste enters the liver, has the functions of astringency, astringency, antiperspiration, diarrhea, etc., can nourish the liver yin, nourish the liver and blood, can eat more black plum, pomegranate, hawthorn, orange, etc., can turn yin into jin, replenish yin blood, and reduce deficiency fire.
In addition, the pungent and sweet nature of food can help the yang to make fire, so people with strong liver fire should try to avoid eating spicy, fried, fatty, sweet, warm, and greasy food. Pay attention to drink more water, drink less sweet and sour drinks, and eat less spicy and fried foods.