Many people often say that their liver fire is very strong, how to reduce liver fire; just like many people say that their spleen and stomach is not good, how to make up for the spleen and stomach is a psychological. Now this phenomenon is a bit of China's ancient Jin-Yuan period like the emergence of Zhu Danxi's "nourishing Yin school" and Li Dongyuan's "tonic earth school" . Why? Zhu Danxi advocates that the body's yang qi often have more than enough yin fluid, easy to appear virtual or real fire, so advocate nourishing yin to reduce the fire ; and Li Dongqi believe that the body's many diseases are caused by the spleen and stomach weakness, or spleen and stomach injuries, so The main idea is to tonify the spleen and stomach. We are now in this situation a little bit of this feeling, all day long either shouting their fire Qi Wang, or that their spleen and stomach is not good. Today we will talk about this liver fire is caused by what?
Many people say it is due to insomnia, work stress, or diet too spicy and so on, I personally think it is not right. Insomnia is upsetting, but insomnia or a spicy diet also affects the heart and digestion, so why not say that the heart is on fire and the spleen is on fire?
This is mainly down to the characteristics of the liver. In Chinese medicine theory, the liver is the main blood collection and the main drainage, the body Yin and Yang . How to understand it? Liver is mainly refers to the sparing of qi, the whole body of qi, in the liver sparing regulation, qi and smooth, blood normal operation; qi dysregulation, it is easy to lead to blood abnormalities, such as qi obstruction, the operation of the blood is blocked. Reversal of qi may lead to blood overflowing out of the blood vessels, for example, I heard that some people were so angry that they vomited blood, or that emotional excitement led to cerebral hemorrhage, and so on. When the liver blood or liver yin is insufficient, the liver yang is relatively easy to be over-excited, and the so-called "liver fire" appears.
The liver is also a dispersal of emotions, that is, the seven emotions and six desires, this is also thanks to the role of the liver to regulate the qi. The liver's role in regulating qi is also attributed to the liver's role in regulating the emotions. However, liver is a "like the wind and evil depression" organs, known as the "general of the official", do not like depression, like the smooth. The liver's qi is also the main up, that is, up; corresponding to the gallbladder's qi is down, they are so up and down to regulate the whole body qi.
When some problems occur within the body, it affects the liver's ability to vent the qi, and when the liver loses venting, it can become depressed or irritable. So when there is a problem with the liver itself, it may lead to an imbalance of qi throughout the body; it may also lead to the liver's detachment because of problems with the five viscera and six bowels. Therefore, if we look at whether the liver fire is strong or not, whether we want to clear the liver fire, not just because of the dry mouth and mouth bitter, upset and irritable, etc. on the use of some of the bitter and cold to reduce the fire of the drug, which is likely to lead to the liver fire not only did not reduce, but the liver fire more prosperous, while the spleen and stomach due to bitter and cold drugs and injuries. Sharing two cases of Mr. Liu Duzhou to show you, is not to think that you should clear the liver fire.
Li Moumou, usually often late at night to drink strong tea or coffee to refresh, night work, dizziness during the day, often atrophy. A long time, to the night of mental excitement, sleepless, upset, dry mouth and bitter mouth , serious enough to need to go out shouting a few times to feel comfortable . Western medicine diagnosed as neurasthenia, according to Chinese medicine, is not think liver fire to lower the fire? Look at his tongue, tongue light red without moss, pulse string fine. In the end, not give him clear liver fire, but clear heart fire nourish kidney water, used Huanglian Agaricus soup , three doses after no longer upset, bitter mouth, sleep peacefully.
Huang Moumou, quarrel because of marital discord, the occurrence of schizophrenia, babbling, restlessness, bad breath, bloating, constipation for a week, tongue yellow thick and dry, pulse slippery and powerful . This is not the liver fire, need to clear the liver fire? Mr. Liu gave him a Diuxin Tang (rhubarb, scutellaria baicalensis, rhizoma coptidis), which is a laxative, diarrheal treatment for heart and stomach heat, and he was back to normal after one week.
The above two are the real case of Mr. Liu, is not to find seemingly liver fire, in fact, not necessarily liver fire, or not necessarily to clear the liver fire. There are many, many more like this, we do not just because there is a dry mouth, bitter, upset on the liver fire. If you often have liver fire, not only is it easy to lead to mental depression, but also the stomach and intestines are particularly injured, and there may also be a manifestation of yang deficiency.
There may be a few times when the liver and qi is depressed, so we'll just use the method of detoxification to let the qi stretch out. If the qi is stagnant, the fire is stagnant, and not necessarily diarrhea, Li Dongyuan also created a formula called "Yang Dispersing Fire Soup", which is more appropriate for those who have some qi stagnation in the interior, where the yang qi can't come out, and who have been put under diarrhea a few times.
Next time you suspect that your liver fire is high and you need to diarrhea it, think about what the root problem is and whether you really need to diarrhea it!