Foods for the liver

Garlic

Garlic helps the liver activate a variety of toxin-eliminating enzymes, and it contains a lot of allicin and selenium, which play a big role in the detoxification process.

Grapefruit

Because this fruit is rich in vitamin C, which is a powerful antioxidant, eating grapefruit can remove carcinogens and toxins from the liver.

Beets

Beets are rich in bioflavonoids, which can improve overall liver function.

Lettuce

Leafy greens such as lettuce and spinach can neutralize metal substances in food, as well as chemicals and pesticide residues, which have a protective effect on the liver.

Green tea

Green tea is rich in plant antioxidants - catechol, which can effectively improve liver function.

Avocados

Eating more avocados on a regular basis helps the body produce an antioxidant called glutathione, which helps the liver filter out harmful substances.

Cruciferous vegetables

Cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli and Brussels sprouts, provide the body with a high amount of carrageenosides, which in turn helps the body to produce digestive enzymes.

Lemons

Citrus fruits, such as lemons, are very rich in vitamin C. Also, it helps the body to clear toxic substances and aids in digestion.

Turmeric

Turmeric is often used as a seasoning, it can help the body to digest fats and stimulate the secretion of bile, in addition, it has a natural detoxification function for the liver.

Walnuts

Walnuts are rich in glutathione and omega-3 fatty acids, both of which can protect the liver by removing harmful substances from it.

Ways to protect the liver

Adjusting sleeping position

Side sleeping is the usual sleeping position for many people, and it is easy to turn to side sleeping when lying on the back. Because the liver meridian is on both sides of the body, when you sleep on your side, whether you are lying on your left or right side, you can nourish your liver qi. Because people in the side lying, blood naturally to the liver meridian to go, "the liver main blood", blood to the liver meridian, the human body will be able to sleep quietly and start a day of blood production function.

Appropriate exercise

Maintain a moderate amount of exercise every day, and gradually control the amount of exercise according to the different conditions of individual liver function. At the beginning of exercise, jogging can be done without affecting the comfort of the body, and the jogging time can be controlled by the fatigue level.

Adjusting your work routine

The liver also needs to rest. Find a way to go to bed before 11 p.m. and get up early rather than stay up late. It's also recommended that working people eat more liver-boosting foods, such as leeks, Buddha's hand, papaya, shellfish and fungus.

Push the liver meridian

Sitting on the bed, right leg straight forward, left leg bent flat, hands folded, pressed at the root of the thighs, along the inner thighs of the liver meridian position, a little harder to push forward to the knee joints of the, and repeatedly pushed, forty-five times, and then change the other leg of the same technique. Can be through the clothes, if it is on the skin then apply some moisturizing oil, the effect is better. Push a push every night, dredge the liver, activate blood circulation, remove blood stasis, go to the liver fire, maintenance of gynecology, improve facial color.

There are three meridians on the inner side of the thighs, the liver meridian in the center, the spleen meridian near the front, and the kidney meridian near the back. When you sit down, bend your knees and face upwards with your inner thighs, the one in the center is the liver meridian, and to push the middle is to push the liver meridian, but of course to push it a little bit to the spleen meridian or the kidney meridian, and that doesn't matter either.

Massage

Hand over hand, rubbing the danzhong point between the two breasts, up and down round trip for 30 times, can relax the qi, stimulate the thymus gland, enhance immunity. Or you can also two fists loose grip, pounding the two upper calves of the foot Sanli points, can tonify the kidney and strong liver, solid protection of the spleen and stomach.