“If the liver is not good, life is black and white.” This sentence is familiar to many people. Nourishing the liver is an issue of great concern to everyone. But it is also filled with many wrong concepts of liver nourishment that need to be clarified. Now we analyze the 6 major myths about liver nourishment from a professional perspective.
Q: Do traditional Chinese herbal medicines of unknown origin have liver-protective effects?
A: There are many liver-protecting folk remedies of unknown origin. Not only do they not have scientifically proven efficacy, but their side effects are also unknown.
The liver is an important organ of the human body responsible for detoxification and metabolism. Excessive use of drugs and health products may cause burden and damage liver health. Chinese herbal medicines of unknown origin should be treated with caution as their lack of verification may lead to irreversible harm.
Q: Does dry eyes and blurry eyes mean a bad liver?
A: Eye disease does not mean there is a liver problem!
Eye disease is not necessarily related to the liver. Although imbalance of qi and blood in the liver may cause eye symptoms, eyes are easily affected by many external factors. It is recommended to seek medical treatment in time to obtain correct examination and treatment.
Q： Can liver-nourishing pills and liver-nourishing health foods really nourish the liver?
A ：The “liver” that liver-protecting health products protect is the “liver” of traditional Chinese medicine, not the “liver” of western medicine.
It is recommended that if you need liver protection, you can first check with Western medicine to confirm your liver health. If the examination is normal but you still have symptoms such as fatigue, seek TCM diagnosis to see if there are problems such as liver qi stagnation, and then prescribe appropriate medicine.
Q: It is rumored that small crescents on nails indicate bad liver?
A: Whether the nails have crescents or not has nothing to do with the health of the liver.
Although the condition of your nails can reflect your health and blood circulation, liver problems may not necessarily appear on your nails and need to be carefully examined by a doctor to confirm.
Q: Is it because of poor skin and prone to spots that the liver is bad?
A: Liver spots are so named because the spots are as red as the color of the liver. It does not mean there is a problem with the liver.
“Liver spots” are caused by a liver-red color and are not caused by liver problems. However, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, pigmentation is caused by stagnation of liver qi, stagnation of qi and blood stasis, weak spleen and stomach, etc., resulting in lack of qi and blood.
Q: Poor sexual function is caused by a bad liver?
A: Liver disease can really affect your sex life!
Numerous foreign studies have confirmed that the prevalence of impotence and infertility in chronic hepatitis patients with early cirrhosis is much higher than that in men without liver disease, showing thatLiver disease does have an impact on sex life！
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Original content: Is it effective to take liver-nourishing pills to protect the liver?Chinese medicine practitioners explain in detail 6 myths about nourishing the liver
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