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Liver Function and Your Health
The liver lies in the upper part of the abdomen on the right side, under the diaphragm, slightly to the right inside of the right ribs. Its channels are distributed throughout the right and left ribs.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and western medicine looks body differently. TCM focuses on body as a whole and every organ relates and reflects to each other. In fact, every organ has emotion.
From TCM theory, liver has many functions:
1) Smoothing and Regulating the Flow of Vital Energy and Blood
Ancient Chinese medical men believed that liver character like wood or a tree tended to spread out freely. The liver's function in promoting unrestrained and free movement of qi (energy).
Energy flow show in 3 aspects:
1. Regulating emotion and mood
When the liver does not perform well, the human body will fail to coordinate its mental activities. This is indicated by dullness, anxiety, depression, belching, sighing, distension and stuffy sensation in the breast and hypochondria, or restlessness of the mind, irascibility, dizziness, a sensation of distension of the head, headache, insomnia and dream-disturbed sleep.
2. Promoting digestion and absorption
The liver helps the spleen (digestion system) in sending food essence and water up and the stomach in sending food contents down and secretion of bile to keep it work as normal. If the liver does not function well, in result, patients will have a poor appetite, indigestion, belching, vomiting of sour fluid or distension of the abdomen, and diarrhea.
3. Keeping qi and blood moving normally
The liver's dysfunction in promoting free movement of qi (energy) and blood stasis due to the stagnation of qi leads to pricking pain in the breast and hypochondria, even mass in the abdomen with fixed shape and localized pain, tumor, and possibly abnormal menstruation, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea in women. Sometimes, the hydro-peritoneum and edema could happen.
2) Storing and Regulating Blood
Modern physiology also believes that while a human is lying calmly, his whole liver system can store 55% of the total blood in his body. In the case of emergency a normal adult's liver can provide, at least, 1,000 - 2,000 milliliters of so as blood to keep enough blood for the heart to pump out. If you want to keep the liver healthy, even so often you need rest to give your body a chance to restore blood in the liver, also you need good sleep, especially from 11pm to 3am, for the liver to store energy. If you don't have a rest or don't have enough sleep, the liver will be deteriorated.
3) Nourishing Tendons, Nails, and Eyes
TCM believes that the tendons and nails have the same source of nutrients. The liver blood provide nutrients to keep the tendons and nails healthy. When the liver dysfunction, you may have symptoms such as numbness of the extremities, sluggishness of joint movement, spasm of the tendons and tremors of the hands and feet. Sometimes, you could have spasms on your jaw. Also, you could have withered, soft, thin or hollow and deformed nails.
Eye is the window of the liver. The eye's visual sense is mainly dependent on the nutrients from the blood of the liver to function well. The deficiency of the blood of the liver may lea to blurred vision and night blindness, dry eyes and hypopsia, red, sore, swollen eyes; bilirubinemia due to the dampness and head in the liver and gallbladder to icteric sclera.
Conclusion:
If you have depression or any emotional problems, if you have restless sleep or varicose veins, and unhealthy joints, nails, or eyes, from TCM point of view, these different symptoms are all related to one cause: a dysfunctional liver. When the liver's energy is restored, combining with the detox treatment, these ailments can be healed.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and western medicine looks body differently. TCM focuses on body as a whole and every organ relates and reflects to each other. In fact, every organ has emotion.
From TCM theory, liver has many functions:
1) Smoothing and Regulating the Flow of Vital Energy and Blood
Ancient Chinese medical men believed that liver character like wood or a tree tended to spread out freely. The liver's function in promoting unrestrained and free movement of qi (energy).
Energy flow show in 3 aspects:
1. Regulating emotion and mood
When the liver does not perform well, the human body will fail to coordinate its mental activities. This is indicated by dullness, anxiety, depression, belching, sighing, distension and stuffy sensation in the breast and hypochondria, or restlessness of the mind, irascibility, dizziness, a sensation of distension of the head, headache, insomnia and dream-disturbed sleep.
2. Promoting digestion and absorption
The liver helps the spleen (digestion system) in sending food essence and water up and the stomach in sending food contents down and secretion of bile to keep it work as normal. If the liver does not function well, in result, patients will have a poor appetite, indigestion, belching, vomiting of sour fluid or distension of the abdomen, and diarrhea.
3. Keeping qi and blood moving normally
The liver's dysfunction in promoting free movement of qi (energy) and blood stasis due to the stagnation of qi leads to pricking pain in the breast and hypochondria, even mass in the abdomen with fixed shape and localized pain, tumor, and possibly abnormal menstruation, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea in women. Sometimes, the hydro-peritoneum and edema could happen.
2) Storing and Regulating Blood
Modern physiology also believes that while a human is lying calmly, his whole liver system can store 55% of the total blood in his body. In the case of emergency a normal adult's liver can provide, at least, 1,000 - 2,000 milliliters of so as blood to keep enough blood for the heart to pump out. If you want to keep the liver healthy, even so often you need rest to give your body a chance to restore blood in the liver, also you need good sleep, especially from 11pm to 3am, for the liver to store energy. If you don't have a rest or don't have enough sleep, the liver will be deteriorated.
3) Nourishing Tendons, Nails, and Eyes
TCM believes that the tendons and nails have the same source of nutrients. The liver blood provide nutrients to keep the tendons and nails healthy. When the liver dysfunction, you may have symptoms such as numbness of the extremities, sluggishness of joint movement, spasm of the tendons and tremors of the hands and feet. Sometimes, you could have spasms on your jaw. Also, you could have withered, soft, thin or hollow and deformed nails.
Eye is the window of the liver. The eye's visual sense is mainly dependent on the nutrients from the blood of the liver to function well. The deficiency of the blood of the liver may lea to blurred vision and night blindness, dry eyes and hypopsia, red, sore, swollen eyes; bilirubinemia due to the dampness and head in the liver and gallbladder to icteric sclera.
Conclusion:
If you have depression or any emotional problems, if you have restless sleep or varicose veins, and unhealthy joints, nails, or eyes, from TCM point of view, these different symptoms are all related to one cause: a dysfunctional liver. When the liver's energy is restored, combining with the detox treatment, these ailments can be healed.
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