Eating these seven vegetables in spring is the most nourishing for the liver! The key is that it's cheap, and you don't want to miss it

Nowadays, there are many people suffering from liver disease, how to nourish the liver and protect the liver in addition to receiving treatment?

In fact, the conditioning of any disease is inseparable from diet, exercise, daily life and rest, etc., among which the position of diet is very important, what should patients with liver disease eat?

To nourish the liver and protect the liver, pick these seven vegetables.

 

Shepherd's cabbage: detoxify and flatten the liver, reduce swelling and improve water

Capsule's cabbage is not only a delicious vegetable, but also has a wide range of medicinal properties, and is known as "licorice in vegetables". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that shepherd's cabbage is sweet and cool, and it belongs to the liver, spleen, and lung meridians, and has the effects of cooling the liver and brightening the eyes, diluting dampness and drenching, lowering blood pressure and stopping bleeding.

The general shepherd's cabbage is divided into two varieties, one is the plate-leaved shepherd's cabbage, also called the large-leaved shepherd's cabbage, which has wide leaves, light color, high yield, but low nutritional value and medicinal value; The other is the flowering leaf shepherd's cabbage, also called the hundred-legged shepherd's cabbage, this kind of camelina leaf edge is deep in the gap, the color is green, the yield is low, the quality is good, not only the fragrance is rich, the taste is delicious, and the medicinal value is high.

Pumpkin: Detoxifies and invigorates qi and improves liver function

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pumpkin is warm in nature, sweet in taste, returns to the spleen and stomach meridians, and has the effects of tonifying and invigorating qi, reducing inflammation and relieving pain, detoxifying and killing insects. Pumpkins also have a high medicinal value. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it "replenishes the middle and benefits the qi".

Pumpkin, commonly known as rice melon, has a long history of cultivation in China. Because of its characteristics of long vines, fruitfulness and numerous melon seeds, it has become a symbol of many children and grandchildren and prosperous families in ancient times. "The Book of Songs, Daya, Mian" cloud: "Mianmian melon, the first birth of the people, from the soil." Later generations have the auspicious pattern of "melon and melon", painting melons and butterflies (or melon seeds) to congratulate the descendants on prosperity and longevity. Therefore, the folk also have the custom of "stealing melons and giving seeds" and "eating melons to get seeds".

Yam: liver and kidney double supplement

Yam is a kind of food with the same origin as medicine and food, it can be used as medicine, can also be used as a vegetable, and is very beneficial to the human body.

Yam is warm and sweet in taste, and has the effects of tonifying the spleen and invigorating qi, nourishing blood and soothing the nerves, generating jin liquid, antidote to poison, and alleviating medicinal properties. Traditional Chinese medicine studies have shown that yam contains a certain type of special compound that can inhibit the activity of hepatitis virus.

Yam has the function of protecting the liver and enhancing immunity, because some patients with chronic liver disease have relatively low protein in the body, and yam is rich in amino acids, which are conducive to protein synthesis, can prevent low protein symptoms, and achieve the purpose of strengthening the spleen and liver. Therefore, for patients with chronic liver disease, they can eat more fresh yams on weekdays to protect their liver.

Celery: clears liver fever and lowers blood pressure

The reason why celery can nourish the liver, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine: celery is sweet, cold, into the lungs, stomach, liver meridian, it has the effect of nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, moistening yin and dryness, clearing fire and removing annoyance, diluting water and reducing swelling, can nourish the liver and protect the liver, and has an adjuvant treatment effect on hypertension, neurasthenia, edema and other diseases.

A person who often "stirs up liver fire" can try to eat more celery to extinguish the liver fire.

Men often eat celery to clear away heat and detoxify, which is beneficial to the prevention of fatty liver. Middle-aged and elderly people eating celery in moderation can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, moisten the intestines and laxative, and also calm the liver and lower blood pressure.

Leeks: Eating them in spring can help liver qi rise

In spring, everything recovers, and the yang energy in nature is the heaviest, so it is just the right time to nourish the liver. In addition to ensuring adequate sleep, eating more leeks in the daily diet has a good effect on nourishing the liver.

The effect of nourishing the liver in spring is the best. Because at this time, all things are recovering, and the yang energy in nature is also the most vigorous, and nourishing the liver at this time is the time to borrow the sky. How to raise it? The best way to do this is, of course, sleep, which we have already talked about before, so I won't talk about it here. In addition to this, we can also nourish the liver with the help of food. Among the many foods, the most effective is spring leeks.

Why can leeks nourish the liver? Leeks have the reputation of "Yang Grass" and "Longevity Grass" in traditional Chinese medicine, which is the most suitable for the growth of human yang energy. Leeks can be divided into spring leeks, summer leeks, and autumn leeks. Among them, spring leeks are the best, followed by late autumn, and the worst in summer. Du Fu once wrote a famous poem: "The night rain cuts spring leeks, and the yellow sorghum in the new cooking" is said to be the fragrance of leeks in spring. Spring leeks conform to the germination opportunity of spring, absorb the essence of heaven and earth, and the effect of nourishing liver and yang is the best.

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" believes that leeks are fragrant in spring, spicy in summer, bitter in autumn, and sweet in winter, so spring leeks not only have the best effect on nourishing liver yang, but also have the best taste. The medicinal properties of leeks have always been highly regarded by doctors. "Materia Medica" believes that leeks can warm the middle and lower the qi, replenish the deficiency, and reconcile the viscera. Li Shizhen also believes that its "leaves are hot and the roots are warm, the function is the same, the raw is bitter and scatters blood, and the cooked is sweet and replenishes the middle, which is the vegetable of the liver", which means that leeks are the best vegetables to nourish the liver. In the cold of spring, leeks can not only aphrodisiac and replenish deficiency, but also dispel yin and dispel cold, and enhance the spleen and stomach qi of the human body. The spleen and stomach are the foundation of nurture, the source of qi and blood biochemistry.

Zhang Zhongjing mentioned in "Jin Kui Yao": "If the husband treats the disease before the disease, he sees the disease of the liver, knows the liver and transmits the spleen, and the spleen should be the first to be realized,...... The middle workers do not know the legend, see the disease of the liver, do not understand the spleen, only cure the liver. This means that a skilled healer sees liver disease and knows that it will affect the spleen and stomach, so the treatment will often focus on regulating the spleen and stomach. However, doctors with poor medical skills only know how to treat the liver when they see liver disease, and do not know how to start from regulating the spleen and stomach. Therefore, a strong spleen and stomach is also beneficial to the normal function of the liver.

Cabbage: moistens the intestines and detoxifies, reduces the burden on the liver

Chinese cabbage, everyone is more familiar with, Chinese cabbage is a kind of vegetable that everyone usually eats, also called "cabbage", you can fry and eat, you can also eat hot pot, how to eat are nutritious, and often eat Chinese cabbage also has a certain health effect, can effectively relieve the intestines, eliminate food and stomach, and can also reduce the level of cholesterol in the human body.

In addition to being rich in nutrients, Chinese cabbage also has high medicinal properties. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cabbage is slightly cold and sweet, has the functions of nourishing the stomach, removing annoyance and quenching thirst, diuretic and laxative, clearing heat and detoxifying, etc., and is a good vegetable for supplementing nutrition, purifying blood, dredging the stomach, preventing diseases, and promoting metabolism, which is suitable for the public to eat. Folk are known as "fish make fire, meat produces phlegm, cabbage and tofu keep safe".

Cabbage is slightly cold, and has the effect of clearing heat and removing annoyance, quenching thirst and diuresis, clearing the stomach and intestines, and clearing lung heat. If you want to clear away heat and dampness, water and gallbladder reliever, you can eat more foods such as Chinese cabbage that clear heat and water. In this way, the therapeutic effect is achieved.

Spinach: soothe the liver and regulate qi

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that spinach is sweet in taste, cool in nature, cool blood and stop bleeding, nourish blood and moisturize the skin, reduce yin and moisten dryness, lower qi and intestines, dredge blood and veins, and is rich in iron, preventing and treating iron deficiency anemia and playing a role in tonifying liver and blood.

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that spinach "opens the blood veins, opens the chest and diaphragm; In the lower atmosphere, it quenches thirst and moistens dryness, and it is very good".

The book also records that "Confucianism" clouds, mortals who have been sick for a long time and have hemorrhoids should often eat spinach, sunflower and the like, slippery to nourish the knots, natural Tongli.

According to the "Diet Recipe of Living with Rest", spinach is "sweet and cool...... Open the chest and diaphragm, clear the stomach and intestines, invigorate blood and moisturize the skin". According to the record of "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica", spinach can "benefit the five internal organs, clear the stomach and intestines, and detoxify alcohol".

"Lu Chuan's Materia Medica" said that after eating spinach, it can "divide human blood, produce blood, invigorate blood, stop bleeding, remove stasis, intestinal bleeding, and scurvy". The "Compendium of Medical Forestry" also believes that spinach can "collect yin and blood".