If you are tired, you must first nourish the liver, these 5 acupuncture points are the most nourishing liver, and it will be effective if you touch it!
In modern life, many people always feel "surrounded" by a lingering sense of exhaustion. In particular, some middle-aged and elderly people who are under high work pressure, have long-term mental tension or are elderly, can have fatigue, dry mouth, poor appetite, and severe body aches, sleepless nights, and even temper irritability.
In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, most of these symptoms are inseparable from the human liver.
On the one hand, "the main tendons of the liver, the tendons of the muscles", here the "tendons" refer to the tendons and ligaments of the whole body, which are closely related to people's physical strength and mobility. The classic of traditional Chinese medicine "Su Wen Meridian Treatise" believes that "food qi enters the stomach, disperses essence in the liver, and lewd qi in the tendons", indicating that the qi and blood of the liver can nourish the tendons, and the liver disperses the essence and qi to the tendons and plays a nourishing role. If the liver function is normal and the liver blood is full, the human body will be strong and strong, the body will be relaxed and flexible, have good tolerance, and it is easy to recover energy after exertion. When the liver is deficient in blood and yin, the tendons will lose their "nutrients" and become overwhelmed, resulting in fatigue, decreased physical strength and other discomforts, and even affect the functions of other organs.
On the other hand, the liver also undertakes the body's "excretion" function, and by adjusting the lifting of the body's qi, the organs can perform their duties, coordinate their actions, and maintain normal functions to cope with various external "blows". Excessive mental stress or long-term depression and depression that exceed the liver's ability to regulate will lead to liver loss and poor qi, causing a series of "sub-health" symptoms such as mental fatigue, dizziness, and decreased physical regulation ability and immunity.
Therefore, liver protection is very important to maintain a healthy body and abundant energy. In daily life, first of all, maintain a balanced diet and eat less greasy and spicy foods. In particular, it is important to quit smoking and limit alcohol, which needs to be broken down by the liver, and excessive alcohol consumption can cause irreversible damage to the liver. Secondly, you must learn to control your anger, get angry and hurt your "liver qi", try to make yourself calm, optimistic and cheerful, even if you are really angry, it is best not to exceed three minutes. Finally, the body has to move. Aerobic exercises such as walking, jogging, brisk walking, and cycling can help burn calories in the body, control weight gain, and "reduce the burden" on the liver.
These 5 acupuncture points are the best at nourishing and protecting the liver
The liver is the main organ of human metabolism, diet, sleep, stress, etc. will affect the health of the liver, traditional Chinese medicine believes that massage related acupuncture points can play a role in nourishing the liver, let's take a look at the main 5 acupuncture points of the liver.
1. Taixi Cave
The Taixi point is located on the inside of the foot, in the depression between the back of the medial malleolus and the tendon of the heel bone. That is, in the depression between the medial malleolus and the Achilles tendon of the foot. Double-measured symmetry, that is, two. This health point is the original point of the kidney, which is the storehouse of the kidney's vitality. The liver belongs to wood, the kidney belongs to water, and trees need water to grow healthily, so to nourish the liver, it must nourish yin. Using Taixi to mobilize the function of the kidneys can better "nourish the water and culvert trees".
2. Dadun Cave
The Datun point is located next to the toenail gap on the inside of the big toe. "Dun" means thick, and "Da Dun" means particularly thick. Dadun Cave is also a well, and "well" means source. On the marginal edge of the toenail of the hallux is the second toe and there is the "Datun" point.
The Da Dun acupoint can be taken in a sitting or supine position, and the Da Dun acupoint is located about 2 mm from the edge of the nail root of the big toe (on the side of the second toe). "Da Dun acupoint" can be massaged, can also be moxa burning, can achieve the effect of clearing the liver and eyes, can make your mind clear, refreshed.
3. Taichong acupoint
The Taichong acupoint is located on the dorsal side of the foot, in the depression before the junction of the first and second metatarsals. Taichong acupoint is one of the important acupoints on the yin and liver meridians of the human body, and is the original acupoint of the liver meridian, which is about equivalent to the warehouse where the vitality of the liver meridian is stored.
4. Liver Yu acupoint
The Liver Yu acupoint is located on the back, under the spinous process of the 9th thoracic vertebra, 1.5 inches apart, it is the back Yu point of the liver, and it is the "water pool" formed by the convergence of the liver's vitality in the back of the body. The combination of Liver Yu and Taichong belongs to the "Yu Yuan Acupoint" method in traditional Chinese medicine, which can replenish the liver yin and nourish the liver and soften the liver. It is taken in a prone position, under the spinous process of the ninth thoracic vertebra, and the acupoint is opened 1.5 inches next to the tendon contraction (Du Mai).
5. Interline acupoints
The "inter-row point" is located between the big toe and the second toe. It is a fire hole, the liver belongs to wood, wood makes fire, if your liver fire is too strong, pour out its heart fire. And the "Xingjian acupoint" is an acupuncture point that expels the heart fire. The liver is full of fire, rub more "interline acupoints", and you can spread the heart fire from here.
