Fatty liver belongs to the category of “accumulation” in traditional Chinese medicine, and Ume plum and hawthorn can not treat fatty liver in general.
Umei has the effect of astringent lung (astringent lung qi) to stop cough, astringent intestines to stop diarrhea (through the enhancement of intestinal astringent function to relieve diarrhea), an ascaris lumbricoides to relieve pain, and to produce fluids to quench thirst, and is commonly used in lung deficiency and prolonged cough, prolonged diarrhea and prolonged diarrhea, deficiency heat and thirst, and ascaris lumbricoides, vomiting, and abdominal pain and other illnesses. Attention should be paid to umeboshi should not be eaten for a long time.
Hawthorn has the efficacy of eliminating food and strengthening stomach, promoting qi and dispersing blood stasis, resolving turbidity and lowering fat (cleansing the body of foul substances and reducing excess fat), clinically used for stagnation of meat and food, stomach and epigastric distension, diarrhea and dysentery and abdominal pain, stasis of blood and menstrual occlusion, pectoral paralysis (chest tightness and pain), heart pain, hernia pain and other symptoms.
The efficacy of daily consumption of ume plum and hawthorn is limited and cannot be used for the treatment of fatty liver, which should be diagnosed and treated by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.
For the evidence of liver depression and spleen deficiency, the liver should be dredged and the spleen strengthened, commonly used in the addition and subtraction of Free and Easy San; for the evidence of dampness and turbidity internal stagnation, dampness should be eliminated and turbidity should be removed, available in the addition and subtraction of Gastro Ling Tang; for the evidence of dampness-heat embodiment (dampness and heat evils accumulate with each other in the body), heat should be cleared and dampness should be removed, commonly used in the addition and subtraction of San Ren Tang combined with Yin Chen Wu Ling Wan; for the evidence of phlegm and stasis interconnectedness, the blood circulation should be activated and blood stasis should be eliminated to eliminate phlegm, available in the combination of Hematophagy and Blood Stasis Soup combined with the subtraction of Er Chen Tang.
The above medicines should be taken under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners. Patients with fatty liver should take medicines under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners.