With the onset of winter, more patients with liver disease come to the clinic. For patients with chronic liver disease, liver disease is often triggered or aggravated in winter, which is considered by Chinese medicine to be due to the physiological function of the liver and the characteristics of pathological changes. As the saying goes, “good treatment is better than good nutrition, three points of medicine, seven points of conditioning”, chronic liver disease patients, in the treatment, if you can persistently self-conditioning, to improve the treatment effect, to promote disease recovery is very helpful.
A. Spiritual recuperation.
1, to prevent anger injury to the liver.
The liver is a rigid organ, like to be organized (relaxed) and evil depression. Anger hurts the liver, mental depression for a long time or sudden, strong anger can lead to the liver’s qi and blood imbalance, affecting the liver’s drainage function, inducing liver disease aggravation. Therefore, patients with liver disease should be section mood, avoid excessive mental stimulation, worry need to be careful anger.
2, avoid thinking about the transition.
Worry and thought hurt the spleen, the spleen injury is the diet water and grain transportation is not normal, dampness and turbidity within, most likely to lead to internal dampness and dampness and heat epidemic toxicity together, so that liver disease aggravated or relapse. If the liver disease is not deficient in the spleen, the condition is relatively single and easy to treat; if worry and thought injure the spleen, the liver disease can easily spread to the spleen, resulting in the liver and spleen being sick together, making the condition more complicated and treatment more difficult. Excessive thinking can easily damage the spleen and deplete the heart and blood, which is not conducive to the recovery of liver disease. Therefore, it is advisable to maintain a peaceful state of mind, calm and quiet, to avoid aggravating the disease with prolonged thinking and worry.
3, keep optimistic.
A relaxed mood and full of emotions are good for “the righteousness of the qi is stored within, the evil cannot dry”, which can enhance the immune function of the body and improve the ability to resist disease. It is advisable for liver disease patients to maintain a relaxed mood, optimistic mood, to build up confidence and courage in life. As the saying goes, “If you are here, you are safe”, do not produce pessimism, depression, fear and other emotions because of the disease. Usually should be appropriate to participate in sports and cultural activities, cheer up the spirit, so as to effectively dispel depression, frustration and sadness and other negative emotions.
Second, diet regimen.
1, avoid eating hot and spicy stimulating food.
Hepatitis is based on damp heat, due to damp heat in the body, regardless of the length of the disease, as long as the hepatitis is not healed, damp toxicity is not cleared. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have been in the business for a long time, and that is why you should avoid eating these foods.
People like to eat hot pot in winter, hot pot with its spicy hot, half raw and uncooked as a feature, not only help wet heat, increase the burden on the liver, but also easily lead to viral bacterial parasite infection. If it causes combined hepatophilic virus infection, it may lead to heavy hepatitis on top of the original cirrhosis and endanger life. In addition, shabu-shabu food is often thick and hard, and these foods are often an important cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis.
Chinese medicine believes that wine is “pure Yang poison, and fire is the same”, easy to help wet heat, drinking alcohol is also a contraindication for patients with chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. The main component of alcohol is ethanol, ethanol and its metabolite acetaldehyde are metabolized by the liver, and damage to the liver, leading to liver cell degeneration and necrosis, aggravating the disease. At the same time hepatitis patients detoxification capacity is reduced, alcohol can promote the generation and accumulation of fat in the liver, the occurrence of fatty liver.
2, do not eat fried fried food.
In the frying and frying and other cooking process, due to fat oxidation of acrolein, through the blood circulation to the liver, stimulating damage to liver parenchymal cells, aggravating liver disease. In addition, frying fried food due to hard, is also an important factor leading to upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis.
3, it is appropriate to eat high protein, high vitamin diet.
Patients with chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis should eat a high-protein, high-vitamin diet. High protein diet should be based on milk and eggs. Milk is rich in nutrition, containing high-quality protein, easily absorbed lactose and milk fat, a variety of vitamins, rich in calcium, phosphorus and a variety of trace elements. Some people may experience excessive gas production after drinking fresh milk, so they can switch to yogurt, which is more nutritious and easier to digest and absorb.
The main components of various fruits are glucose and fructose, which can be directly absorbed by the body. They also contain a variety of inorganic salts and trace elements, such as iron, copper, potassium, sodium, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, silicon, chromium, nickel, etc., which are similar to the composition of human blood and have a high utilization rate, and have an extremely strong tonic effect. Patients with liver disease eat different fruits appropriately to supplement the necessary vitamins and trace elements, which is beneficial to the recovery of liver disease, but be careful not to overdo it, so as not to affect the appetite, and even lead to abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc.
4, diet should be moderate.
”If a patient with liver disease has an uncontrolled diet, hunger and satiety will lead to abnormal spleen and stomach functions, and the biochemical source of qi and blood will be affected, and the liver will lose its nourishment, which will aggravate or induce liver disease. So to do moderate and moderate diet, do not overeat and overeat, can be beneficial to liver disease recovery.
Three, living conditioning.
1. Avoid strain.
Because the liver is the main tendon, the whole body tendons and joints of the movement, overwork will consume blood, loss of gas and injury to the liver, resulting in the deficiency of evil love, the disease lingering difficult to heal. Therefore, proper rest is very necessary for patients with liver disease. For example, hepatitis B patients, in the acute stage should be bed rest, avoid too much activity; chronic hepatitis B patients, should pay attention to the combination of work and rest, appropriate rest, as light work; hepatitis B recovery period or hepatitis B virus carriers, when the activity to no fatigue.
2, regular work and rest.
According to Chinese medicine, “the liver collects blood”, and “blood returns to the liver when people sleep”, 11:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. is the time of the liver and gallbladder meridian, which can nourish liver blood. But if you are a “night owl” family, liver blood can not be regulated, liver fire will be easy on the inflammation, dry mouth and tongue and other discomfort will arise, liver disease will also aggravate.
3, careful to avoid external evil.
”Where the evil comes together, its gas will be weak”, liver disease patients, most of the weak, easily attacked by external evil and the onset of the disease, so that changes in the condition, affecting the effectiveness of treatment, or make the course of the disease prolonged. Therefore, in winter, it is necessary to do a good job to prevent cold and keep warm, but also pay attention to the ventilation of the living room, appropriate increase and decrease clothing, so that “false evil thief wind, avoid the sometimes”.