Traditional Chinese medicine says that the liver is the innate foundation of women, and its ability to store blood and relieve stress are all functions that women rely heavily on.
Modern medical research has also shown that the rich blood treasures in the liver lobules not only store blood but also regulate blood volume, supporting the theory of traditional Chinese medicine that the liver stores blood, and also maintaining blood sugar balance.
Traditional Chinese medicine also says that anger can harm the liver, and both anger and anger can have a negative impact on liver function, causing damage and affecting the liver's ability to store blood and relieve stress.
The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon has long held the view that "anger leads to qi rising". When a person is in a state of anger, the angry emotions can cause the "qi" in the body to lose balance, go against chaos, and rush up to the brain, causing dizziness, dizziness, flank swelling and pain, and even symptoms such as tinnitus, redness of the eyes, and fainting, disrupting the normal functioning of the liver.
Moreover, anger can also reduce the liver's detoxification ability, inhibit the secretion of bile, and reduce the digestion and absorption of fat, leading to the saying in traditional Chinese medicine that "anger is like taking poison.".
Anger is already so sad, but many people don't know that there is another emotion that is more damaging to the liver than anger. Women's endocrine disorders, dysmenorrhea, breast disease, and so on are all related to it.
What hurts the liver even more than anger is to swallow one's anger
Why is swallowing anger more damaging to the liver?
All of this is because the liver has the most important thing, liver qi.
Liver qi, we can understand it as the essence and function of the liver, characterized by passion and courage. It likes to be free and release to its heart's content, but what it hates the most is oppression and blockage.
For example, if a person has qi, swallows it and cannot release it, their liver qi is also blocked, resulting in liver depression and qi stagnation.
It's like a can of soda. If you keep shaking it, the air inside will surge, but it's blocked by the lid, so it accumulates more and more, as if it's about to be fried.
When liver qi is blocked, it is a similar situation. The chest will feel suffocated and indescribable discomfort, ranging from mild to severe depression. Holding it back can be harmful and have a greater impact on the liver than anger.
1. Suppressing endocrine disorders
Women are most afraid of endocrine disorders, which can affect their ovulation, conception, complexion, skin, and other factors.
What is endocrine disorders related to? Mainly the ovaries, and the location of the ovaries - the lower abdomen - happens to intersect with the liver meridian.
Therefore, once a person is feeling depressed and their liver qi is depressed, the qi and blood in the ovaries will inevitably be affected, interfering with their nest function and endocrine system. As a result, ovulation, conception, menstrual period, and so on will all suffer, including dysmenorrhea, infertility, and so on. It is not surprising.
2. Suffering from breast disease
Breast disease is a major problem that troubles countless contemporary women, and most of the reasons for this may also be due to the location of the female breast, which happens to encounter the liver meridian.
The mammary gland is already an area where qi and blood are concentrated. In addition, nowadays, with a fast pace of life and high work pressure, women are more prone to liver qi stagnation, qi stagnation, and blood stasis. Naturally, it is easy to cause women's breast pain, breast hyperplasia, breast nodules, etc., including breast cancer, which has become the largest cancer in women, and it is not unreasonable.
3. Suffering from stomach problems
Although the liver meridian is inferior to the stomach, don't forget that traditional Chinese medicine also has the theory of the Five Elements.
In the Five Elements, the liver, wood, spleen, and earth complement each other, and once the liver qi is stagnant, the function of the spleen and stomach becomes weakened. It's like being angry makes a person lose their appetite and their digestive ability deteriorate.
Improve gas dissipation ability
In summary, the harm to the liver caused by swallowing one's breath far exceeds our imagination. More importantly, in real life, the situation of swallowing one's anger is far more common.
In life, your family, friends, roommates, colleagues, leaders, including strangers you have never met before. In the process of getting along, it is inevitable for everyone to do some things that make each other unhappy or even angry.
Most of the time, in order to maintain family or work harmony, people cannot fully vent their emotions. As a result, your liver meridian, ovaries, and mammary glands will often be injured due to liver depression and qi stagnation. What should we do?
We see some people who can be angry for a long time and never forget it. Some people, after getting angry in the front and back, quickly forget and have no heart or lungs.
So, to relieve liver depression and qi stagnation, it is still up to us. Your physical condition determines whether you have an open-minded mood and whether you can quickly calm down.
4 calming acupoints, making you no longer "swallow your breath"
When you are in a bad mood, experiencing headaches, dizziness, chest tightness, insomnia, etc., warming the head of the head can help to expel gas.
Because there is a Baihui acupoint on the top of the head, which is specifically designed to regulate people's emotions and refresh their minds.
2. Tanzhong acupoint
When feeling down, rubbing your chest often makes you feel much more comfortable, all because there is a Tanzhong acupoint here.Shan Zhong, also known as "Shang Qi Hai", can reach the inside and outside of the body, regulate Qi and broaden the chest, and is an important acupoint for regulating Qi diseases. Usually under high work pressure and physical and mental exhaustion, one can massage and relieve physical and mental stress.
3. Zusanli
The so-called Zusanli refers to "rational, rational, and rational".Both the liver and stomach belong to the middle energizer. Pressing and kneading the Zusanli not only nourishes the stomach, but also benefits the liver.
And the spleen and stomach are the source of qi and blood transformation. A good spleen and stomach requires sufficient liver blood and strong liver qi, making it easy to break through constraints.
So regularly massaging Zusanli can not only nourish the spleen and stomach, but also soothe the liver and reduce qi, and nourish the liver.
4. Taichong acupoint
Taichong acupoint is one of the important acupoints on the liver meridian of the foot jueyin in the human body, and is the original acupoint of the liver meridian.When a person is angry, the original acupoint of the liver meridian, Taichong, will show some signals, manifested as changes in temperature or color, tenderness, greater sensitivity to the outside world, and even abnormal tension in its soft tissue.
Traditional Chinese medicine says that Qi flows through the liver meridian, and Tai Chong is an important regulator of liver meridian Qi and blood. Pressing and kneading Tai Chong to regulate emotions should not be too effective.
Kind reminder: Information is for reference and learning only, and is not used as a basis for medical diagnosis. If necessary, please use under the guidance of a physician.
