What are the “natural enemies” of the liver? 1.Viruses Top of the list of “natural enemies” of the liver, they often drag patients into the hepatitis → cirrhosis → liver cancer death path. 2.Drugs According to survey data, liver damage caused by drugs accounts for about 10% of hospitalized patients. Even those seemingly safe herbal medicines can be misused or abused to lay hidden dangers to the liver. According to statistics, there are about 600 kinds of chemical drugs may cause liver damage, such as lipid-lowering drugs, anti-tuberculosis drugs, antibiotics, etc. 3, pollution, including pesticide residues of vegetables, fruits and melons; water pollution, such as some chemical toxic substances on drinking water pollution; smoked food and spoiled food, such as rotten ginger, long sprouted potatoes, etc.; environmental pollution, such as sand and dust, car exhaust, etc.. Although these pollution may not cause harm in a short period of time, but the accumulation of long-term chronic toxic effects will make the liver to damage. 4, obesity If the fat content of the liver accounted for more than 10%, can cause damage to the liver, medically called fatty liver. Further deterioration is cirrhosis of the liver. So we can not ignore the harm of obesity, it is not only a threat to adults, but also to children. According to expert reports, “fat children” the incidence of fatty liver up to 80%. 5, alcohol alcohol more harm to the body, this time people generally understand the truth. Of course, the first bad luck or the liver. Because alcohol itself has hepatotoxicity, enough to harm the liver. And alcoholic fatty liver is the earliest signs, just a few days of drinking can be formed, then lead to “fibrosis” and then become alcoholic liver disease, and eventually develop into irreversible cirrhosis or even liver cancer. 6, malignant emotions Chinese medicine cloud: “worry hurts the spleen, anger hurts the liver.” When people have violent mood swings, hormone secretion in the body is out of balance, resulting in impaired blood circulation, affecting the blood supply to the liver, so that liver cells die due to ischemia.