One point, easy to lose temper, irritable and irritable, often quarrel with others, know to control but like a gas canister, a little explosion, what is going on?
From the perspective of Traditional Chinese medicine, this condition may be caused by hepatic depression and stagnation
◆ What is hepatic stagnation?
Hepatic qi stagnation refers to the pathological changes caused by liver loss and leakage, stagnation of qi machine, emotional depression, and poor qi and blood. The liver has a draining effect, and it is pleasant and depressed. If the liver is leaked or emotional depression is uncomfortable, it can cause liver qi depression.
Clinical manifestations can be insomnia, anxiety, depression, mood swings, flank pain, chest tightness, swelling, belching, pharyngeal foreign body sensation, women's menstrual irregularities and other symptoms.
◆ The harm of liver qi stagnation
The liver likes to be depressed, often angry and angry, mostly because the liver qi stagnation causes the circulation of qi and blood around the body, and other internal organs are disturbed, resulting in the onset of diseases.
In addition to the above symptoms, hepatic stagnation may also occur in the following conditions:
Liver qi to the stomach: liver loss and drainage, transverse offense stomach, stomach loss and descent. Clinically, it is manifested as chest and stomach tenderness, swelling and pain, mainly fullness, stomach pain, vomiting, hiccups, stomach pain, such as the common clinical symptoms of chronic gastritis, stomach and duodenal ulcers, gastrointestinal neurosis, cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis and other diseases.
Hepatic fire inflammation: liver qi is depressed, depressed and fire, liver through qi fire inverted. Clinical manifestations are dizziness and swelling pain, tinnitus, redness, redness and pain, irritability and irritability, upset sleeplessness or dreams, dry mouth, constipation, short yellow urine, or burning pain in the ribs, blood vomiting, women's menstrual flow, early and so on. Diseases such as conjunctivitis, cholecystitis, and hypertension are mostly caused by hepatic inflammatory inflammation.
Hepatic depression and blood stasis: liver qi is depressed, blood stasis is in the liver, swelling or tingling in both flanks, or there are lumps under the flanks and abdomen, emotional depression, purple and dark tongue or spots. Women have dark blood clots during menstruation and painful breasts before menstruation.
Hepatic depression and spleen deficiency: symptoms based on weakened digestive function, such as lack of food, abdominal distention, limb fatigue, bowel sound loss, and tenderness and pain.
◆ Traditional Chinese medicine regulates liver and qi
Herbal conditioning
According to the personal constitution, Chinese medicine is based on personal physique, looking and asking questions, dialectical prescriptions, to solve the patient's insomnia, anxiety, depression, emotional fluctuations, flank pain, chest tightness, swelling, belching, pharyngeal foreign body sensation, women's menstrual irregularities and other symptoms.
Acupuncture therapy
Acupuncture therapy has the effect of reconciling camp health, balancing yin and yang, and soothing liver qi, which can effectively relieve liver qi and alleviate the symptoms of chest tightness, impatience and irritability. At the same time, acupuncture has the effect of calming the mind and calming the mind, which can effectively help sleep and improve sleep quality.
Acupuncture point compressions
(1) Too chong
Positioning: in the posterior depression of the dorsal, first metatarsal space.
Effect: Calms the liver and breathes, clears heat and dampness, relieves pain.
(2) Liver Yu
Positioning: Under the 9th thoracic spinous process, 1.5 inches next to the posterior midline.
Efficacy: Liver and choleretic, rational qi and clear eyes.
(3) Taixi
Positioning: in the depression between the inside of the foot, the back of the medial malleolus and the Achilles tendon.
Effect: Nourish yin and kidney, aphrodisiac and waist.
Exercise - Push the liver meridian without trouble
(1) Push the thighs: sit on the bed, press the root of the thighs, along the position of the liver meridian on the inner thigh, the left leg is twisted and flattened; the right leg is straight forward, the hands are overlapped, repeat the push, push forward slightly to the knee joint, forty or fifty times. Then switch to the other leg and operate in the same way.
(2) Push the calf: After pushing the thigh, push up and down along the inner bone surface of the calf, and push it forty or fifty times with the degree of soreness.
(3) Push the back of the foot: starting from the ankle, along the first two toes of the foot, pushing from top to bottom, pushing forty or fifty times.
(4) Kneading the ribs: along the lower edge of the ribs, near the period of the door point, the ring kneading, kneading forty or fifty times.
Healthy diet
Gastrodia fish head soup
Ingredients: 15g of tianma, 15g of goji berries, 10g of jujube, 1 fish head, 3 slices of ginger, salt, cooking wine, tofu to taste.
Method: Prepare the ingredients, wash the fish head and drain the water; put the jujube and tianma into the clay pot and add two bowls of water to boil and then turn to low heat and cook for 40 minutes; when the tianma water is almost cooked, put in the skillet with vegetable oil and ginger slices, add the fish head on both sides and fry until golden brown, add three bowls of water to boil, cook for ten minutes until the soup is white, add the cut into small pieces of tofu; after boiling again, put in a large clay pot and cook in the jujube tianma water for 20 minutes, then sprinkle the goji berries and add a little salt.
Efficacy: Specializes in the treatment of neurasthenia, dizziness and headache, calming the nerves, and nourishing the liver.
Cassia tea
Ingredients: 10 g of goji berries, 3 g of chrysanthemums, 20 g of cassia seeds.
Directions: Place in a larger lidded cup, brew with boiling water, cover and steep for 15 minutes before starting to drink. It can generally be brewed 3 to 5 times.
Efficacy: Lower blood pressure and lipids, clear liver and eyesight. Relieves dry eyes, eye fatigue, blurred vision, etc.
Liver soup
Ingredients: 100 g of pork liver, 100 g of cabbage, 100 g of spinach, 20 g of goji berries, 3 slices of ginger.
Method: Spinach, cabbage blanched water for reserve; pork liver slices, salted, hanging water starch paste; boiled in boiling water and boiled spinach, cabbage, goji berries and other foods, and finally put the pork liver to cook.
Effect: Thin the liver and nourish the liver, replenish the blood and eyesight.
Rose brown sugar water
Ingredients: 5 g rosettes, brown sugar to taste.
Directions: Add water and cook for 30 minutes before drinking.
Effect: Rose has the effect of relieving depression, calming and calming the spirit, nourishing blood and scattering, and softening the liver and regulating menstruation. Suitable for people with high work pressure, it can regulate mood and keep the complexion healthy and rosy. ■
【Source: Foshan Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Guidance Doctor: Zhao Minhong, Chinese Medicine Physician of Foshan Maternal and Child Health Hospital】