How to nourish the liver and detoxify at home? Chinese medicine practitioners teach you 3 key points

The liver in traditional Chinese medicine is not the liver in western medicine

The “liver” mentioned in Western medicine is an actual organ that has the functions of storing blood, producing bile, coagulating blood, metabolizing fat and cholesterol…

The “liver” mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine has a wider scope. In addition to the functions mentioned above, it also includes the “liver meridian” and the “gallbladder meridian”. If there is a problem with the liver, the parts where these two meridians pass will also have problems. For example, if the “liver meridian” passes through the mammary gland, symptoms such as breast hyperplasia, premenstrual breast pain, and breast tumors will appear; if the “liver meridian” passes through the lower abdomen, there will be problems such as menstruation and dysmenorrhea; if the “gallbladder meridian” passes through the side of the head, it will cause migraines.

The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine mentions: “The liver controls blood and is responsible for the flow of qi and blood. The liver opens up to the eyes. The liver controls the tendons, and its beauty is in the nails.” This shows that the liver can affect the storage and regulation of blood, the secretion and metabolism of the digestive glands, and mood changes. It is also related to the opening and closing of the eyes, vision, muscle fascia, and nails.

Poor liver function and various health problems

From Chinese medicine’s discussion of the scope of the liver, we can learn that: liver and gallbladder diseases, blood diseases, emotional tension, anxiety, melancholy, irritability, loss of appetite, bloating, bloodshot eyes, sleep disorders, cramps, raised ridges, black lines, or depressions on the surface of the nails…are all problems caused by a bad liver.

The liver is the largest detoxification organ in the human body. If the liver’s detoxification function is not good, toxins will accumulate, which may lead to fatigue, nausea, poor appetite, itchy skin, dark spots, mania, insomnia, and breast tumors.

The liver is also an organ that metabolizes fat and cholesterol. If the metabolism deteriorates, xanthomas with cholesterol deposits may appear around the eyes, causing symptoms such as lipomas, pimples, acne, and folliculitis.

Furthermore, if bilirubin cannot be metabolized smoothly by the liver, it will accumulate and cause jaundice, which in turn can cause itching of the skin, yellowing of the skin, or yellowing of the whites of the eyes.