Mr. Cheng Liangbin, director of the Department of Liver Diseases and second-level professor of Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said: The plan of the year lies in spring, and spring is the season of growth; Chinese medicine believes that spring qi passes through the liver, "a hundred diseases are treated from the liver", so spring to nourish the liver can achieve the health effect of doubling the effort with half the effort.
Protect the "General's Officer"
Professor Cheng Liangbin said that Lichun health care should conform to the characteristics of spring yang qi and the birth of all things, pay attention to the protection of yang, and gradually transition from "autumn and winter yin" to "spring and summer yang". He introduced that the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classics pointed out that "the liver, the officer of the general, is out of the mind." That is to say, the liver can play the role of a general in the body, and the saying that "a hundred diseases are treated from the liver" also comes from this.
In fact, the liver mentioned in Chinese medicine, as one of the "five organs", not only refers to the physical liver in the eyes of Western medicine, but also contains a functional system closely related to the function of the liver, with two major functions: main drainage and main blood storage. The main drain allows people to circulate qi and blood, and the emotions are smooth; the main blood can store blood, regulate blood volume, etc.
Eat more warm foods
"After the spring, the diet should be far away from the fat and sweet taste." Professor Cheng Liangbin explained: After most of the Spring Festival, you can gradually eat less high-oil, high-fat, high-salt, high-sugar big fish and meat, as well as raw, cold, spicy and other heavy flavors, and slowly turn to eating some warm foods to enrich the yang qi and enhance the body's resistance. These warm foods are characterized by slightly sweet, less acid, such as dates, yams and other slightly sweet foods, which have the effect of nourishing yang, while sour foods have the effect of nourishing yin, which is not required for spring. He recommends eating more vegetables in the spring, such as: leeks, ground vegetables, bean sprouts, spring shoots, onions, ginger, garlic and so on. "Onions and leeks are the best products of spring yang and liver cultivation recommended by Chinese medicine."
"Spring cover" should be thin and thick
Spring blossoms, human vitality recovery, should participate in more outdoor sports, spit out the old and new. Professor Cheng Liangbin recommends: When the temperature rises, you can choose gentle and moderate, close to nature sports, such as walking, square dance, tai chi, etc., it is not appropriate to do those sweaty and depleting yang exercises. Professor Cheng Liangbin has long maintained the habit of walking to work and walking 10,000 steps a day.
"Spring cover" has its scientific basis, Professor Cheng Liangbin reminded that the early spring climate fluctuations, do not take off winter clothes prematurely, beauty-loving women do not wear skirts too early, "cold from the foot", you can appropriately "thin up and down thick" pay attention to ankles, knees and abdomen to keep warm, otherwise it is easy to lead to arthritis and various gynecological diseases.
Nourishing the liver is expensive in not staying up late
The first thing to nourish the liver is to pay attention to rest and avoid overwork. Rest increases liver blood flow and conserves the liver. The liver main hides blood, and the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic says that "people lie down to the liver", and rest can increase the blood flow of the liver. "Modern people's compulsive staying up late is very harmful to the liver." Professor Cheng Liangbin said. He reminded those "night owls" to fall asleep before the "child time" at the latest, that is, before 23:00, so as to "go to bed early and get up early". Chinese medicine also pointed out that "the liver is open to the eye, long-term vision hurts the liver", staying up late to watch TV and computer brushing mobile phones is also related to the dry and sore eyes caused by insufficient liver blood, blurred vision.
Flirting Zhizhi "Anger Hurts the Liver"
Liver health has a lot to do with emotions, and the old saying "anger hurts the liver" is contained in the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic.
After the spring, we should pay attention to the health of emotions, learn to control anger, neither lose self-control anger, nor self-suppress "sulking", be good at correct attribution, and maintain a calm, optimistic and accessible mentality. Professor Cheng Liangbin said: Maintaining a good mood every day is his first health secret.
Source: Wuhan Evening News