How to Love Your Liver
17 March 2007The Traditional Chinese Medicine Liver organ is one of the most important organs to keep the balance between your mental and physical health. It plays a role in your social life, your sexual life and your physical life.
When your liver is healthy it serves to keep your body and mind flowing smoothly. It facilitates the circulation of qi, stores the blood while you sleep, and is the home of the ethereal Soul, but I won’t get into that today.
When your liver is unhealthy it can lead to body pains, depression, anxiety, fits of rage, exhaustion, insomnia, alternating constipation and diarrhea, gas and distension of the abdomen, and for the girl-type readers out there all of the things you associate with PMS. For you guy-type readers out there, if you’ve ever found yourself to feel irrational and pissed off a lot, odds are good you have some malfunction of the liver.
Excess, in the form of too much sex, too much food, too much alcohol, much anything really, is one of the most easily preventable risks to the liver. A small amount of alcohol can help disperse clogged up qi, but too much will build up dampness and heat, and can cause symptoms like hangovers - dehydration. An orgasm can also disperse such clogged up qi, but too many too soon will wear you out and deplete your kidney essence (which most agree you will never get back…).
So in all things that deal with the liver moderation is the key. So when you get unnecessarily agitated or unreasonably snide, have a beer and touch yourself- you’ll feel better in no time. Just remember to keep it all in moderation.
