Chinese medicine for regulating the liver and qi

In life, if we want to soothe the liver and regulate qi, we should start with diet. Food choices include lotus root, radish, hawthorn, rose, etc. These ingredients can quickly strengthen the spleen and regulate qi. We also need to eat a light diet and exercise appropriately to relieve the symptoms of abdominal distension. For patients with indigestion and weak spleen and stomach, we can eat more of the foods introduced in the article in our daily life.

food

Lotus root: Lotus root can promote ventilation, strengthen the spleen and stomach and relieve gas.

Radish: good at relieving qi and strengthening the stomach, and eliminating turbid and cold phlegm. Green radish has the best therapeutic effect, followed by red radish. If you have a cold stomach, you can add pork ribs, beef, etc. to stew radish soup.

Hawthorn: good at relieving qi and promoting blood circulation, digesting food and eliminating accumulation. But it should be consumed in moderation and used with caution in cases of excessive stomach acid. If you have a blood stasis constitution, you can boil hawthorn and brown sugar water to replenish blood and relieve depression.

Rose: Rose has the function of nourishing the liver, regulating qi, calming the mind and soothing the nerves. You can use rose to make tea.

Albizia Julibrissin: Relieves depression and calms the mind. Used for restlessness, depression and insomnia.

Boil Ophiopogon japonicus, Schisandra chinensis, Lycium barbarum and lily in water to nourish yin and reduce heat. It is good to cook wolfberry into porridge and stir-fry fresh lilies.

Green tea made from honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, and fried cassia seeds can reduce internal heat and also have the effect of slightly soothing the liver and regulating qi.

Boil black plums and rock sugar in water to nourish yin. You can drink it often in summer and it has a very good effect.

Soaking roses in water can invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, but the effect is general. If used as daily necessities to remove blood stasis, they are rarely effective.

Among the seasons, the liver corresponds to spring, and spring is the best season to nourish the liver. A Taiwanese Chinese medicine practitioner advocates eating more black beans with green cores, saying that they can nourish the liver.

Among the five colors, the liver corresponds to green, so eating more green vegetables is also good for the liver.

method

If you have breast hyperplasia, you can use the back of a comb to scrape the soles of your feet from bottom to top, scrape each side a hundred times every night after soaking your feet. If breast hyperplasia is more serious, you can scrape it a few more times.

You can start from scraping the ribs, from the armpits all the way to the waist; you can also rub the ribs with your hands and move downwards.

Massage

1. Breathing Club

Method: Overlap your palms and place them on the Tanzhong point between the breasts (this point is the place where the body's vital energy gathers), and rub up and down 30 times.

Function: Soothes and regulates Qi, stimulates the thymus gland, and enhances the immune mechanism.

2. Wide chest method

method:

1. Sit down, place your right palm on top of your right breast, pat it with moderate force and gradually move it horizontally to the other side, repeat 10 times.

2. Cross your palms and place them on your breasts, rub them horizontally 20 times.

3. Place the base of your palms under your armpits, and rub back and forth from the upper waist down to the ilium until it becomes warm.

Function: Relax the chest, regulate qi, and unblock the qi flow throughout the body.

3. Sparse intercostal

Method: Sit down and place both palms horizontally under the armpits with fingers spread out, with the distance between fingers equal to the width of the gap between the ribs. First, push the right palm to the left to the sternum, and then push the left palm to the right to the sternum. From top to bottom, push alternately to the horizontal line of the navel. Repeat 10 times. Note that your fingers should be close to the ribs and the force should be even, until you feel warmth in the chest and ribs.

Function: Regulate Qi and soothe the liver.

4. Take the psoas muscle

Method: Sit down, place the base of your hands on the waist muscles on both sides, and pinch the waist muscles from top to bottom to the iliac area, repeating this operation 10 times.

Function: It can strengthen the spleen and replenish qi.

5. Rub the side abdomen

method:

Sit or lie on your back, place your palms under your ribs, and at the same time push and rub your lower abdomen diagonally towards the pubic bone, repeating this motion 20 times.

Function: Strengthens the spleen and promotes qi circulation.

6. Regulate the triple energizer

method:

Sit or lie on your back, cross the four fingers of both hands, place them horizontally on the Tanzhong point, press the base of both palms on the inner side of both breasts, and push from top to bottom with a little force to the groin, and push 20 times in total.

Function: Clear the triple energizer, regulate qi and nourish the liver.

7. Yangling

Method: Sit down, place the thumbs of both hands on the Yanglingquan points (the meeting points of the human tendons) on both sides, and use the other four fingers to assist. First, press and rub the points for 1 minute, then forcefully pluck the tendons at the points horizontally 3-5 times, until you feel a radiating sensation of numbness and soreness.

Function: Soothe the liver and gallbladder, regulate the meridian qi.

8. Boost your spirit

method:

1. Sit down and pinch the left pectoralis major muscle from under the armpit with your right hand 10 times, then change hands and do the same.

2. Cross your fingers and hold the back of your head. Keep your elbows level and swing backwards as hard as you can while inhaling and exhaling as you swing forward. Inhale and exhale, perform this operation 10 times.

Function: Regulates qi and relieves chest tightness, invigorates the yang energy in the chest.

9. Use your eyes

method:

Look straight with your head and waist straight. Slowly rotate your eyeballs 10 times in a clockwise direction. Then stare at them for a moment, and then repeat in a counterclockwise direction.

Function: It can make the eyes look around more flexible and energetic.

10. Sighing method

method:

Relax your whole body, take a deep breath, then exhale as much as possible, making a "hush" sound while exhaling and staring as hard as you can. Repeat 10 times.

Function: It can harmonize the internal organs, soothe the liver and regulate qi.