Case description: 55-year-old Mr. Liu suffered from chronic hepatitis for many years, usually very concerned about the newspaper and television health columns, know that spring is a good time to support the liver. Winter has just passed, bought a variety of supplements, soups, medicinal meals, three meals a day is very rich, but not long ago, began to yellow all over the body, urine yellow as thick tea, nausea, abdominal distension. The hospital diagnosed acute attack of chronic hepatitis. Three meals a day big fish and meat, hepatitis old disease acute “did not expect my chronic hepatitis acute attack, conditioning tune out a big problem.” The beginning of spring this year, Mrs. Liu sick in hospital, they asked the bellhop to Mrs. do delicious sent over, in the side of the care of Mr. Liu also feel tired, thinking that spring is a good season to make up the liver, then let the bellhop by the way to do medicinal diets and more soup, he likes to maitake and raw land, three meals a day, such as fish, duck and so on, can make up for the complementary. Unexpectedly, complementary liver medicinal meals have not all tasted, Mr. Liu will find himself no appetite, do not eat also stomach bloating, but also from time to time nausea. One day, Mr. Liu also found that the face is particularly yellow, the next few days, the whole body on the skin is also yellow, more and more wrong, immediately to the hospital for examination. “Through detailed questioning, found that his liver qi stagnation, liver blood stasis. Coupled with the fact that perhaps his wife had been sick and hospitalized recently, he was overworked, and a variety of reasons led to an acute attack of the old disease.” Southern Medical University Hospital of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hepatology Professor Yang Yungao said that Mr. Liu’s starting point for liver health is good, but unfortunately into the misunderstanding. High-fat and high-protein large complementary easy to hurt the liver “Spring is indeed the most suitable season for liver health, said many, first of all, we need to understand why the spring liver.” Professor Yang said, according to Chinese medicine theory, spring through the liver, spring gas rise, and the liver main rise, spring is the body’s metabolism in the vigorous stage, the liver is the body’s energy and material supply center, liver can provide the body with enough nutrients and energy to promote the growth and development of tissues and organs. Why Mr. Liu supplement liver not counterproductive? According to the explanation, from the pathology, the liver should not rise too much, Mr. Liu himself has chronic hepatitis, three meals too rich, intake of excessive “soup” and protein, aggravating the burden on the liver. At the same time, Mr. Liu’s liver tonic diet is not reasonable, he belongs to the Yang deficiency body, but with a large number of cold herbs soup, such as maitake, raw land, etc., so that the liver qi obstruction is not smooth, inhibit the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach, so that Mr. Liu feel decreased appetite, nausea and abdominal distension. As for Mr. Liu will be yellow all over the body, urine yellow, is the body of bilirubin metabolism abnormal symptoms. Liver to understand their own constitution, Professor Yang said that the spicy food such as chili, pepper, cinnamon, anise, etc. is easy to cause the liver qi rise too much, yin deficiency people should eat less, and hot mutton, dog meat. And cold food is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, spring cold and hot, easy to indigestion, like ice cream, ice cream, ice pop, etc. Try to eat less. And Mr. Liu like Yang deficiency body should eat less cold food, such as maitake, duck and so on. Recommendations Light diet, balance acid and alkaline spring liver has “increase sweet reduce acid” said, increase sweet is to eat a variety of sweets, such as candy, desserts and chocolate, etc., reduce acid is not to eat vinegar, with a little bit of acidic fruits also do not eat. “This extreme diet is wrong.” Allegedly, the spring liver qi exuberant, liver main acidic, if acidic food eat more, liver function detoxification capacity will decline, eat too much fish, meat, will make the blood acidification intensified. On the other hand, eating more acidic foods will make the liver more vigorous, resulting in the spleen and stomach digestion, absorption function is inhibited, affecting human health. Therefore, like Mr. Liu, three meals of large fish and meat anti-liver injury to the body. Should eat more pears, radish seedlings to reduce liver fire “liver main green, like green things. Spring liver can eat more fresh, green, with buds of vegetables, in order to meet the needs of liver qi rise.” Bamboo shoots, radish seedlings, spinach, bean sprouts are particularly recommended, especially bamboo shoots, known as “the king of spring vegetables”, with high nutritional value, high fiber, amino acids, good for liver health. Radish seedlings have the effect of eliminating stagnation, transforming phlegm and clearing heat, lowering the gas and relaxing the middle, and detoxifying the body, but radish seedlings are cold in nature, and are only suitable for people with strong liver fire. In addition to this, sweet and watery fruits can be eaten, and pears are especially recommended. Especially in the current high pollution, high radiation environment, eating pears can be described as a two-in-one, both can nourish the lungs to inhibit the liver is not hyperactive, but also to protect the lungs from the effects of haze in the air, often accept radiation people also have a certain anti-radiation effect. Many people only focus on diet to nourish the liver, but ignored trekking. “Seeing green when trekking out can make people feel happy and release stress, while also naturally making liver qi fluent.” Medicinal meals jade bamboo partridge soup 【Composition】 jade bamboo 30 grams, 15 grams of lily, 15 grams of wolfberry, 15 grams of raw rhizome, Chen Pi 6 grams, honey dates (core removed) 3, partridge 1. [Method] will be bamboo, lily, wolfberry, pericarp, honey jujube were washed, partridge killed and removed hair and internal organs, chopped pieces. All the ingredients into the stew pot, add the right amount of water, stew pot with a lid, placed in the pot with the fire stewed in water for 2 hours, add seasonings can be. Usage] Drink soup and eat partridge meat. Every other day, 7 times for a course of treatment. Scope of application] For liver fire is more intense, liver and kidney yin deficiency, see five heart heat, insomnia and dreaming, body thinning, lumbar and knee pain, short and frequent urination, spermatorrhea and so on. Morinda citrifolia astragalus chicken soup 【Composition】 Morinda citrifolia, astragalus each 30 grams, chicken 1 (about 500 grams) 【Method】 will be the chicken to remove the hair and viscera clean, cut, Morinda citrifolia, astragalus clean, and chicken into the casserole pot with 2 ~ 3 hours. Remove the dregs and add salt and seasonings to taste. Usage] Drink soup and chicken, 1~2 times a day, one week for a course of treatment. Scope of application] Regular consumption can replenish yang qi, replenish energy, applicable to the liver in the cold, fear of cold, loose stools, fatigue, mental depression and so on. Remind often stay up late is very harmful to the liver in addition to diet also includes good living habits. Yang Yungao pointed out that the following groups of people prone to liver disease: A, improper diet, especially like to consume too much high-fat high-protein, acidic, cold food; B, often stay up late, insomnia; often high-rhythm, high-stress life and work; C, often depressed or easily angry, happy and sad people.