A famous traditional Chinese medicine practitioner once said that if you can flexibly apply this treatment method, most internal medicine diseases in clinical practice can be treated. I asked, what method is so powerful? He smiled and said, "Soothing the liver method.".
Later on, I began to pay attention and found that many famous doctors use this method to treat diseases, and the cure rate is quite high. In fact, upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that many diseases nowadays are related to emotions.
Diseases of the human body often arise from depression
The liver is most closely related to a person's emotions and thoughts.
In the Inner Canon, it is said that "the liver is the official of a general, and there is no need to plan." This means that the liver is compared to a powerful and upright general who must make many plans to deal with enemy situations - in order to deal with many things in life, especially many unpleasant things, people also need to make many plans, and this is closely related to the liver.
Inadequate liver qi leads to stagnation of qi and blood!
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the liver governs the release of fluids, which refers to the release of fluids and the release of excretions. The smooth flow and guidance of Qi throughout the human body rely on the liver. If the liver's function is disrupted, Qi cannot be effectively guided.
On the contrary, if one is angry for a long time, the body's qi cannot rise, fall, flow out, and enter normally, and the liver's dredging function is suppressed, leading to problems
It's like soldiers coming out every day to cause trouble in the military camp, can the general still work normally?
You can carefully recall the changes that occur in your body when you are angry or angry, such as blushing, congested eyes, increased breathing and heartbeat, and elevated blood pressure. In severe cases, many women may experience breast or liver pain.
If this frustration dissipates quickly, the body will quickly return to normal because it has a self-regulation function.
If a person is in a state of depression or tension for a long time, their body's qi, blood, and body fluids will not flow smoothly, leading to qi stagnation, blood stasis, phlegm dampness, and so on.
The symptoms of congestion vary depending on the location, but there is a commonality that it is mainly characterized by bloating and pain, which worsens with emotional changes.
Poor Qi and blood flow can occur in the head, leading to dizziness, headache, tinnitus, and a feeling of foreign objects in the neck, as well as a feeling of something stuck in the throat;
Or chronic pharyngitis or thyroid disease, respiratory tract may have chest tightness, cough and phlegm, breast disease, digestive tract may have stomach pain, bloating, and constipation, and liver and gallbladder may have swelling and pain in the liver area;
There can be palpitations in the heart, difficulty urinating in the urethra, and menstrual disorders and dysmenorrhea in gynecology.
So, the clinical manifestations of liver qi discomfort caused by emotional reasons are very widespread.
How to determine if liver qi is not sparse?
Someone may want to ask, how can I determine if this symptom is caused by poor liver qi?
In addition to discussing bloating and pain, you are the most aware of your own emotions, and there is also a symptom of pulse diagnosis. This symptom is like a string pulse, which means it is very tight and tense like a piano string.
If a person is in a state of liver qi discomfort for a long time, this blood stasis or phlegm turbidity state in the body will turn into a lump, and tumors will occur.
Through the above explanation, you should understand why the beginning of the article says that the method of soothing the liver can treat so many diseases. In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a famous traditional Chinese medicine practitioner named Zhu Danxi, who proposed that "various diseases of the human body often arise from depression.".
The meaning is that most diseases in the human body are caused by the obstruction of qi, blood, and body fluids. So many of his treatment plans are to unblock qi and blood, dissolve blood stasis and phlegm.
Many friends may start to feel anxious at this time, saying so much, what is a prescription for soothing the liver! The medical sage Zhang Zhongjing has a classic formula, which is a fundamental core formula called the Four Reversals Powder. The meaning of this Four Reversals is cold hands and feet.
When it comes to cold hands and feet, many people know that yang deficiency may also be caused by poor qi and blood flow. This Si Ni San is specifically designed for the stagnation of Qi and blood.
【 Sini San 】 6 grams each of Chaihu, Shaoyao, Zhishi, and Licorice.
Among them, Chaihu and Shaoyao have the function of soothing the liver and relieving spasms, while Zhishi has the function of regulating qi and resolving phlegm, which is commonly known as "ventilation" by the common people. This Sini powder is widely used in clinical practice.
For example, infertility caused by blocked fallopian tubes can be treated with some blood stasis removing medicine on top of this formula. Chinese medicine master Xu Runsan is good at this, and I have repeatedly used it in clinical practice, and the effect is very good.
This can also be used to treat menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, and breast lumps in gynecology, and the effect is also very good.
If Angelica sinensis, which promotes blood circulation and meridians, and some medicines that regulate the spleen and stomach are added to this formula, it becomes another famous formula for generations, which is Xiaoyao Pill. From the name, we can see that this medicine has the effect of regulating emotions.
Due to the stagnation of liver qi, it is easy to cause qi stagnation and heat transformation, known as liver meridian heat stagnation, or combined with blood stasis and phlegm dampness. Therefore, the prescription for liver soothing drugs usually includes drugs such as clearing the liver, removing blood stasis, resolving phlegm and dampness, or regulating qi.
Excessive liver fire can also damage liver yin, and with the addition of nourishing liver yin drugs, the treatment of diseases caused by liver depression is very flexible and complex.
That's why the beginning said that learning this method can treat half of internal medicine diseases.
In fact, the methods I mentioned above are only temporary solutions.
What is needed to cure the root cause? Ultimately, it requires emotional relaxation!
The content of the article is for clinical reference only. Non professionals in traditional Chinese medicine are not allowed to try medication.