How to soothe the liver, regulate qi and open up blood vessels

Many people are unaware of the symptoms of liver-qi stagnation, which leads many people to confuse liver-qi stagnation with other diseases. In fact, the main symptoms of liver qi stagnation are nausea, vomiting, and poor appetite. Women's problems generally include abnormal sensation in the breasts, menstrual disorders, severe dysmenorrhea, etc. The medicines that Danqi students buy in the book are generally white peony root, tangerine peel, and curcuma. Some recipes made with these herbs can play a role in regulating the body. These are introduced in detail below.

Foods that soothe the liver, regulate qi and open up blood vessels

1. Curcuma

Wash, soak, slice and dry. Promote blood circulation and relieve pain, promote qi circulation and relieve depression, clear the heart and cool blood, promote bile secretion and relieve jaundice. It is used for stabbing pain in the chest and flanks, chest obstruction and heart pain, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, breast pain, coma due to febrile disease, epilepsy, vomiting and bleeding due to blood heat, jaundice and red urine.

Clinical precautions: When using the method of soothing the liver and regulating qi, attention should be paid to understanding the main symptoms of depression. Long-term use of dispersing products can easily damage Qi and Yin. Therefore, clinically, patients with blood deficiency and Qi deficiency must use them together with blood-nourishing and Qi-invigorating drugs.

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

3. Radish: It is 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. Boil Ophiopogon japonicus, Schisandra chinensis, Lycium barbarum and lily in water to nourish yin and reduce fire. 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.

8. 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. Eat more black beans with green cores, which are said to nourish the liver.