Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and surprise" are the seven normal expressions of human emotions.
Mood is closely related to physical health, and people who are in a good mood every day tend to have a smile on their faces, a ruddy complexion, and rarely get sick. If the emotions are "great joy, anger, great worry, great fear, great sorrow, great surprise, and excessive thinking", Chinese medicine calls it the seven emotions excessively, which can lead to mental anxiety, irritability, restlessness, insomnia, dreams, dizziness, headache, dry mouth, bitter mouth, red face, constipation, etc.
Social, family, work, study, marriage, economic and other reasons affect our psychological and physiological state, when there is a strong negative emotion, it can lead to the normal excretion of the liver dysfunction, causing a series of disorders such as liver qi stagnation or liver stagnation and fire. In the face of people who are irritable, Chinese medicine has the following tips, you might as well try it!
01 / Psychological suggestion
When you feel irritable, it is advisable to use positive psychological cues to adjust. Tell yourself that your body is normal, even if there is any problem, now that medicine is very advanced, you will be fine soon, and tell yourself that difficulties will always pass, there will be a rainbow after the storm, and as long as you get through, good things will happen.
02 / Empathy
Change the bad mindset by distracting or changing the environment around it, and serve the purpose of relieving the body and mind. For example, change the home environment, go for a run or travel, enjoy the scenery along the way, meet new friends, learn new knowledge, add some relaxing and enjoyable activities, and make a detailed rest and recuperation plan.
03 / Music Adaptation
Appropriate music can play a calming role, relieve negative emotions, and can enhance immunity and improve health. Those who are irritable and irritable can choose to listen to music such as "Spring River Flower and Moonlight Night", "Jiangnan Silk and Bamboo Music", "Flowers and Full Moon", "Hundred Birds and Phoenix", etc., and those who have difficulty falling asleep can choose to listen to music such as "Three Alleys of Plum Blossoms", "Wild Goose in the Flat Sand", "Erquan Reflecting the Moon" and so on.
04 / Food, Chinese Medicine
If you see liver fire, that is, dry mouth and bitter mouth, irritability and irritability, you can eat more vegetables and fruits that have the effect of soothing the liver and diarrhea, such as bitter gourd, bitter herbs, bitter chrysanthemum, cabbage, cabbage, mung bean sprouts, soybean sprouts, strawberries, plums, green plums, goldenrod, rape, loofah, etc., or foods with the same origin as medicine and food, such as gardenia, chrysanthemum, chicory, dandelion, mint, cassia seed, etc.
You can also eat more vegetables and fruits that have the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, such as apples, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, carrots, shiitake mushrooms, chestnuts, etc., or foods with the same origin as medicine and food, such as yam, jujube, hawthorn, white lentils, white lentil flowers, sea buckthorn, chicken gold, sand kernels, poria cocos, coix seeds, lotus seeds, sour jujube kernels, longan, lilies, oysters, ejiao, etc.
05 / Soup
Chrysanthemum pear white fungus soup: remove the root induration of 30g of soaked white fungus, tear it into small pieces, and then put the white fungus into boiling water, change to extra low heat after boiling over high heat; boil on low heat until the gelatinous soup thickens, you can add water halfway; peel and cut 100g of pear into small pieces and put it in the pot, cook until the color becomes transparent; add 10g of chrysanthemum, make the soup completely submerged in chrysanthemum, cook until the flowers and leaves absorb water; and finally add rock sugar to drink according to personal taste. The soup can soothe the liver and relieve fire, nourish yin and moisten the lungs.
06 / Tea substitute
Four flower tea: wild chrysanthemum 3g, moon flower 3g, white plum blossom 3g, rose 3g, 1 time a day, 500ml of boiling water each time, brew 2~3 times repeatedly, take it frequently, can soothe the liver and relieve fire.
07 / Liver Anjin Zhao
(1) Spread the fingers of both hands apart and press the scalp with your fingertips to relax the scalp. (2) Spread your fingers apart, alternate your left and right hands, and comb your hair 50 times from front to back. (3) Butterfly pull through the liver meridian: sitting, legs bent, feet facing each other, hands grasp the toes, knees open to both sides, try to stick to the ground, back straight, knees rhythmically vibrate up and down. Do 1 time in the morning and 1 time in the evening for 5 minutes each time.
08 / Liver and Spleen Foot Bath
Fried Gardenia 6g, Peony Peel 6g, Bupleurum 6g, White Peony 9g, Tangerine Peel 6g, Xiangfu 6g, Citrus Citrus Shell 6g, Chuanxiong 6g, Yuanzhi 6g, Prunella vulgaris 6g. Seal the medicine in a cloth bag, add 1000ml of water, and boil for 30~40 minutes. Divide the liquid into 2 parts, 1 in the morning and 1 in the evening, mix them with warm water and soak your feet for 20 minutes each time.
Diabetic foot patients need to test the water temperature if they want to soak their feet, and control the water temperature to about 37°C. It should not be used by those with ulcers in the lower limbs.
Content Sources:
People's Medical Publishing House published "Chinese Medicine is Healthy to Eat Right - Using Chinese Medicine in This Way is Safer and More Effective"
Editor-in-Chief of the book:
Zhao Jie, an expert of the National Health Science Popularization Expert Database and chief pharmacist of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University
Author of this article:
Qiao Yi, Xijing Hospital, Air Force Military Medical University
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