Liver belongs to the five internal organs, which is an quite import organ of our body. As the five elements theory says, liver is similar as wood. So just as tree’s growing continuously, or as leaves stretch its body, the point of protect liver is to make it stretch. But what is stretch to liver? It means we should go along with it. For another example, if take liver as a person, we should make him happy and do not infuriate him. So do not often be angry in daily life.
Eye is just as the gate of liver. So if liver is in bad condition, eyes will feel uncomfortable too. So when you feel your eyesight is worse than before, you should pay attention to your liver health.
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Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon said that take the five cereals as tonify food. It means that the five cereals is the base of diet and regimen. In Chinese medicine has the same saying too.
Millet and Spleen
Millet is the first of the five cereals. It has good effect on tonifying spleen and stomach. The rice bran oil which is the on the top of millet is essence, eat it instead of drop it away. Millet is good for weak people. It can tonify middle-jiao and Qi, prolong life span. Read more…
Autumn begins is a of the 24 solar terms of China. It means autumn is coming and weather turn cold after that day. At this time we should remember the rule of more acid and less spicy to protect our liver.
Nutritionist tells us that when autumn begins, the weather turn cold, consume of body decrease and appetite start to enhance. So autumn begins is the proper time for replenish. People can adjust their diet scientificly, and the principle for it is more acid and less spicy.
Su Wen said that lung is an organ related to autumn, it is convergent. Eat too quickly can Read more…
Our Liver and gallbladder is especially weak when spring is come. Even some tiny troubles may disturb us in a serious way. So if we would like our liver and gallbladder always in a good condition and always keep healthy, we should protect them from any chemical materials of the surroundings.
The best choice is eat less animal oil and fried food such as chips and so on.
Keep away from bad oil, do not buy them though it can save your money.
Eat one or two handful of nuts everyday is good.
And another suggestion is use olive oil or oil of nuts and seeds. These oils can make your body more flexible and healthy. If your liver is in good condition and have good function, your ligament, muscle tendon and joint will not be easy to freeze too.
Our human body can generate more than 75 hormones. These hormones play an important role in our body. Women in a higher level of hormone looks much younger than women who are in a lower level. From 25 years old, the generation of hormones of our body decrease at 15% every decade. As its decreased, organs and organisms get older and atrophic. Our skin turn dim and our spirit is weary. At the year of 60, it is only 1/5 of former secretory volume.
Lack of hormone can bring on many disorders of woman, such as insomnia, headache, irregular menses, skin aging, fidget, chest distress and so on. So how to relieve the deficiency of hormone? Nutrition of Chinese medicine consider human as a whole organism. The five organs are relevant to five elements, five tastes and five colours. They are mutual generation and restriction. Food with different colors are associated with different organs inside body, so appropriate diet is helpful to hormone exudation. Read more…
Experts suggest that if you want to keep your kidney in good health, you should wash your feet at nine o’clock in the evening.
Chinese medicine consider that each time has its own effect on people’s health. So nine o’clock in the evening is the moment that kidney meridian, blood and energy is weak. So washing your feet at this time is good to stimulate circulation. Wash your feet with hot water can stimulate your energy.
Meanwhile, it can make you comfortable and reflex after a busy day. Read more…
Chinese medicine consider that oat is mild, tastes sweet. It is good to liver and stomach, and it can cure constipation. Especially for olders, it can improve the symptom of yin deficiency and dryness of the intestine.
Black sesame is mild, tastes sweet too. It is good to liver and kidney (kidney defined in Chinese medicine). It can also make the muscle strong, and make marrow grow. It is especially good at fighting against constipation.
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Chinese medicine consider that carrot do good to eyes and heart because it is full of beta-carotene. So people who have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases can eat more carrots in order to invigorate vital energy and promote blood flow.
Chinese white radish can invigorate vital energy and guid qi downward.
Green turnip can do good to liver and make mood stable, reducing fever, and it can do good to spleen and eliminate phlegm because it is full of amylase, protein, vitamin K and microelement such like that.
Summer radish, which is also called rose-heart radish, a small pink radish, is good to diuresis and promote digestion.
As the differences of each radish, we should choose the proper one for our health, eatting more radish is much better than taking medicine, is not it?
Lichee is a kind of delicious fruit in summer. Once a famous poet said, if I can eat 300 lichees everyday I will go nowhere forever.
Lichee belongs to meridian of spleen and liver, it can generate liquid and blood of the body, antidiarrhea, make body and organ warm, make engergy going more smooth and so on. So it can cure anaemia, diarrhea, deficiency of vital energy, gastric cold, hiccup and so on. All these above can be seen in Compendium of Materia Medica.
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Chinese medicine consider that apples with different colors have different effects.
Red apple can protect heart and vessel. It can reduce the content of lipid, which is bad to vessel and heart. It can intenerate vessel of elder people. So people who is in old age can eat more red apples to keep healthy and prolong life span.
Green apple do good to liver. It has the fuction of detoxifcation of inner body. It can also fight against depression, so people with a terrible mood can eat more of it. In addition, green apple can Read more…
