In the Yellow Emperor Neijing Su Qing. The Great Treatise on the Four Qis emphasizes the importance of spring health: in the spring and March, this is called chen. Heaven and earth are born, all things are proud, lie down at night and get up early, walk in the court, be slowed down, so that Zhisheng will be born; born and do not kill, give and do not take, reward and do not punish, this spring should be, the way of health is also. The opposite hurts the liver, the summer is cold, and the elderly are few.
Spring is the period when all things are revived and the yang qi of the human body rises, at this time the liver qi also begins to flourish, draining the turbid qi and flowing the blood. Traditional Chinese medicine theory believes that spring should be in the liver, summer should be in the heart, long summer should be in the spleen, autumn should be in the lungs, and winter should be in the kidneys. The five organs of the human body correspond to the four seasons, and the five organs also have the same four season cycles of spring, summer, autumn harvest and winter Tibet like nature.
Chinese medicine is known as "spring and summer yang", and the spring temperature is cold and warm, easy to "evil qi" into the body, so it is necessary to protect the yang; at the same time, spring yang, focusing on liver nourishment.
How to nourish the liver?
"The liver is the main spring, the liver is bitter and urgent, the urgent food is sweet to slow down, the liver wants to disperse, the urgent food is scattered, the spice is supplemented, and the acid diarrhea is diarrhea."
Take it easy.
If the yang of the liver is too strong, there is heat, and if the yin of the liver is too strong, there is depression.
Because the liver qi can not be smoothly drained into the symptoms of depression, the rapid food sweet taste is slow, through the clouds:
"Spicy and sweet divergence is yang", the taste is yin, the sweet taste is yang, so the sweet taste is the yang in the yin, and the depression is caused by the yang qi being cold and depressed, so the sweet taste can alleviate the liver qi stasis caused by the cold.
Clinical people like to eat sweets when they are very depressed, and the mood will be better after eating, especially some female patients, and some patients eat a lot of sweets whenever they are depressed, which will increase the moisture in the body and make the spleen and stomach trapped.
Although sweet taste can alleviate the symptoms of depression, but is not the fundamental way to solve the liver bitterness, for such cases, you can eat some sweet food appropriately, more importantly, to find the cause of liver qi stagnation, as the saying goes: "the bell also needs to be tied to the bell person", only by fundamentally solving the problem of liver qi obstruction, the phenomenon of liver pain and urgency can be fundamentally solved.
The sour taste into the liver has the astringent nature, which is not conducive to the growth of yang qi and the drainage of liver qi, and is enough to affect the transport function of the spleen and stomach, so it is necessary to eat less acid in the spring.
Spring health can eat some warm foods, which help to enhance yang qi.
At the same time as replenishing the yang, it is necessary to take into account the principle of replenishing the yang and not hurting the yin.
In spring, you can eat more peaceful hot guiyuan, millet, yam, poria, lotus seeds, coix seeds and so on.
In the spring, it is easy to have spleen and stomach weakness, so it is best to eat less sour and spicy, and it is more appropriate to be slightly sweet, such as yam, lily, fungus and so on.
Recommend several health teas:
Liver Flower Tea
6 grams of astragalus, 3 grams of roses, 3 grams of bergamot tablets, mixed into flower tea, brewed during the day.
It can alleviate symptoms such as fatigue and drowsiness, weak spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, and self-sweating, and play a role in unimpeded qi and liver nourishment.
Goji berry tea
Take 10 grams of goji berries and brew them with hot water.
This tea is suitable for liver and kidney deficiency, post-illness weakness, and elderly people with physical decline. It is especially suitable for eye fatigue caused by long-term use of computers.