Close The Eyes To Nourish The Liver, Lift The Feet To Nourish The Kidneys

May 30, 2024

Many people believe that health preservation is a matter of knowledge and attention, and is far from themselves. In fact, many health preservation methods are not only simple and easy to implement but also effective. For example, in ancient times without modern civilization, some people's health preservation methods were both practical and effective.

Nourishing the liver means closing your eyes

As the ancient saying goes, once the eyes are closed, it nourishes the liver. Because the liver is responsible for storing blood, and the liver is responsible for the eyes. Eye diseases such as dry eyes and tearing in the wind are often related to liver disease. Tearing in the wind is due to insufficient liver convergence function, while dry eyes are due to insufficient liver essence and blood.

Closing your eyes and lowering qi method: Gently press your index finger on the eyelids, gently rub your eyeballs, and you will feel much more comfortable. You can also directly close your eyes to eliminate distractions.

Tipping on tiptoes can nourish the kidneys

Tiptoing is aerobic exercise that not only promotes sufficient oxygen supply to the heart muscle through blood, but also protects cardiovascular health, exercises calf muscles, and enhances ankle stability.

Tiptoe walking method: Stand on tiptoe, take 30-100 steps each time, take a short rest, and then repeat several sets according to your physical condition. The speed can be self-adjusted to feel comfortable and relaxed. The initial practitioner can support the wall, and once proficient, there is no need to rely on external objects.

In addition, urinating on tiptoes in males can have a kidney-strengthening effect. When women sit and squat, landing their first and second toes firmly on the ground and tiptoeing can also have a kidney-tonifying and diuretic effect.

Shake your head and neck to lift your spirit

Watching TV, doing some neck-turning, forward-leaning, backward-leaning head movements, or lightly tapping the head with an empty fist can relieve fatigue in the neck muscles.

Specific method: Take an upright position, hang your hands down, slowly lift your head, and try to reach the maximum angle when looking up. Maintain this position for about 15 seconds. This method can improve the blood oxygen supply to the brain, play a role in invigorating the brain, and also assist in the treatment of insomnia and other diseases caused by neurasthenia.

Inventory some health tips:

1. Comb your hair

Combing hair can stimulate acupoints on the head, play a role in unblocking meridians, regulate nerve function, enhance secretion activity, improve blood circulation, and promote metabolism. Frequent combing can make a person's face rosy and energetic.

In addition, combing hair is also an auxiliary method for treating insomnia, dizziness, palpitations, stroke sequelae, and adolescent white hair. Normally, you can comb your hair 3-5 times a day, for no less than 3-5 minutes each time. It is best to comb your hair once before going to bed at night.

2. Stretch one's waist

Stretching can cause most of the muscles in the body to contract, driving stagnant blood back to the heart, greatly increasing blood flow and improving blood circulation. So, regularly stretching the waist can promote muscle contraction and relaxation, enhance blood flow in the muscles themselves, and also take away metabolic products from the muscles, playing a role in eliminating fatigue, and making people feel relaxed and refreshed throughout the body.

3. Tiptoe

In daily work and life, especially when the lower limbs are sore and weak after sitting or standing for a long time, tiptoeing can be used to exercise.

When people stand on tiptoe, due to the contraction and compression of the muscles at the back of the lower legs on both sides, it can promote the blood return of the lower limbs and accelerate blood circulation. Such a good article comes from the WeChat official account moxibustion of traditional Chinese medicine, which can alleviate the acid swelling of the lower limbs and prevent varicose veins and skin pigmentation of the lower limbs.

Specific method: Keep your feet together on the ground, use force to stand on your heels, hold for 2-3 seconds, and repeat multiple times.

4. Soak water in Cistanche Deserticola and enjoy it

We can choose Cistanche tubulosa to boil Congee in water and take a few pieces. Long-term use can nourish the liver and kidneys.

Total glycosides of Cistanche deserticola can inhibit liver cancer cells at the early stage of liver cancer

Total glycosides of Cistanche deserticola can inhibit liver cancer cells at the early stage of liver cancer

Cistanche deserticola Y.C.Ma or Cistanche tubulosa (Schenk) Wish, a traditional Chinese medicine for tonifying the kidney, is recorded in the 2015 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. It is a succulent stem of the genus Cistanche in the family Lewandaceae, mainly distributed in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang. Cistanche deserticola and Tubular Cistanche deserticola have extremely high medicinal value. They enter the kidney and large intestine meridians. The Compendium of Materia Medica records that Cistanche deserticola "is a nourishing but not severe substance, so it is called Cistanche deserticola" and "it is warm but can moisten, replenish but not dry, smooth but not diarrhea". 

Cistanche deserticola efficacy-Tonifying kidney (2)

Cistanche deserticola efficacy-Tonifying kidney 

It has the effects of tonifying kidney yang, benefiting essence and blood, moistening the intestines, and defecating. Traditionally, it is used for kidney yang deficiency, deficiency of essence and blood, impotence, infertility, soreness of the waist and knees, weakness of muscles and bones, and constipation due to intestinal dryness, It is the most frequently used tonifying kidney yang medicine in history. Modern pharmacological research shows that Cistanche deserticola has many effects such as improving sexual function, anti-aging, improving learning and memory ability, anti-Alzheimer's disease, defecation, etc. It is widely used in clinical prescriptions of Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese patent medicines, and simple preparations and health care products.

benefits of cistanche tubulosa

Cistanche deserticola efficacy-Tonifying kidney 

The main chemical components of Cistanche deserticola are phenylethanoid glycosides, iridoids, and their glycosides, lignans, and polysaccharides. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that phenylethanoid glycosides are the most important active substances in Cistanche deserticola, and have obvious anti-Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, myocardial ischemia, and other effects.

Experimental studies have shown that various components of Cistanche deserticola can effectively regulate and replenish the renal glands, with sufficient renal power that directly enhances the function of the body's energy factory mitochondria, continuously generating energy, keeping the body in an excited state, improving its cold tolerance, and reducing fatigue.

Experimental studies have shown that Cistanche deserticola extract can protect renal tubular cells, prevent renal interstitial lesions, slow down the rate of renal failure, and effectively prevent secondary bacterial infections in patients with chronic renal failure. It has therapeutic effects on both chronic and acute kidney disease.

Cistanche deserticola efficacy-Tonifying kidney (4)

Cistanche deserticola efficacy-Tonifying kidney 

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The functional component of Cistanche deserticola, total glycosides of Cistanche deserticola, has the effect of reducing cell apoptosis and necrosis, increasing cell survival rate, and achieving protection of primary liver cells; At the same time, it can accelerate the liver's decomposition and metabolism of alcohol, helping the liver detoxify.

Total glycosides of Cistanche deserticola can inhibit liver cancer cells at the early stage of liver cancer.

To sum up, total glycosides of Cistanche deserticola inhibit the proliferation and growth of HepG2 cells by influencing cell cycle progression, destroying cell structure, promoting cell apoptosis, and limiting cell migration.

The mechanism of Cistanche deserticola in enhancing immunity

Cistanche deserticola polysaccharides can promote the proliferation of T and B lymphocytes, but the proliferation effect of B lymphocytes is significantly stronger than that of T lymphocytes. Cistanche deserticola polysaccharides promote the release of cytokine IL22 from lymphocytes, which is related to promoting splenic lymphocyte proliferation. Cistanche deserticola can activate macrophages and regulate the immune system. Cistanche deserticola polysaccharides, echinaside, and piloside have significant effects on the formation and activity of human lymphocytes. It can increase the proliferation response of lymphocytes, thereby enhancing the immune function of the body.

Desert ginseng-Improve immunity (8)

Desert ginseng-Improve immunity 

The functional components of Cistanche deserticola total glycosides have a significant impact on cell recovery after 60Coy radiation damage, and can also enhance immune function against radiation damage.

Cistanche deserticola extract can not only compensate for innate immune deficiency but also enhance acquired immunity.

5. Regular rubbing of the foot and heart cleanses the heart

The ancients referred to it as wiping the Yongquan, which is an acupoint on the front foot's heart. It can strengthen the kidneys and warm the feet, and has the effects of nourishing kidney water, reducing deficiency fire, and calming and calming the mind. It can prevent and treat symptoms such as dizziness, tinnitus, foot soreness, numbness, swelling, and lower limb spasms.

First, soak and wash your feet, then hold your right toe with your right hand and rub the spring of your right foot and nearby soles with your left hand until the soles heat up. Rotate the toes slightly again, then release both feet and lift them up and back as much as possible, then retract the toes, repeating this process ten times. After landing on the right foot, switch to the left foot using the same method as before.

Regular massage of Yongquan acupoint can lower deficiency fire, and treat dizziness, headache, dizziness, and sore throat. It can also treat insomnia, foot atrophy, numbness, etc., and has a significant effect on prolonging life.


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