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Fatty liver is becoming more and more common, and medical research suggests that it is closely related to diet. So, is there any way to "eat back" the "fat" liver that has been eaten?
"Yes!" Chen Zexiong, a famous Chinese medicine practitioner in Guangdong Province, pointed out that proper diet can really help the liver "slim down", which is also the treatment to eliminate the cause of fatty liver. However, people with "fat" liver should eat according to syndrome differentiation, and even cooking oil is particular. Experts also give three prescriptions: porridge, soup and tea to help patients with fatty liver to eat diet every day.
Medical Guidance/Provincial Famous Chinese Medicine Doctor, Chen Zexiong, Chief Physician of Chinese Medicine Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, and Sun Baoguo, Deputy Chief Physician of Chinese Medicine Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University.
Text/Guangzhou Daily All-Media Reporter He Xuehua Correspondent Peng Fuxiang
Fatty liver is mostly physical examination, and it is found that 30% to 40% is due to obesity.
Two days ago, an old acquaintance and classmate came to Sun Baoguo’s clinic. She was blessed and anxious. It turned out that the old classmate was found to have fatty liver in the physical examination of the unit. "I heard that it might be cirrhosis and liver cancer, which scared me to worry about what to eat and drink!" The old classmate said.
There are quite a few such cases. Most patients with fatty liver only find problems during physical examination.
This is because most of mild fatty liver has no obvious symptoms, or only a sense of fatigue, which is easy to be ignored. However, if it develops into moderate to severe fatty liver, there will be loss of appetite, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, weight loss, right hypochondriac or right upper abdominal pain. Moreover, if the treatment of simple fatty liver is neglected, it can develop into steatohepatitis and cirrhosis for a long time.
Fatty liver, as its name implies, is the excessive accumulation of fat in the liver. Medicine believes that it can be caused by many causes and diseases, mainly related to obesity, diabetes, alcoholism and so on. According to relevant literature reports, simple obesity accounts for 30%~40% of the causes of fatty liver, and many patients with fatty liver have high-fat and high-cholesterol diets, which suggests that the formation of fatty liver is closely related to diet, and diet may be the direct cause of disease in the general population.
Dietotherapy can eliminate the cause of fatty liver
Finding and eliminating the cause is the fundamental method to treat fatty liver, such as adjusting diet structure, losing weight, abstaining from alcohol and treating the primary disease.
Professor Chen Zexiong pointed out that a reasonable diet is of great significance to the prevention and treatment of fatty liver, especially for patients with simple fatty liver, most of them can be recovered through reasonable diet and exercise. Therefore, if you have fatty liver, don’t be afraid and worried. It is better to actively try diet therapy and "eat back" the problems you have eaten.
Then how to treat fatty liver?
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease is caused by improper drinking and eating, invasion of human body by dampness, emotional disorder, or chronic illness and physical weakness, which leads to poor qi movement, and the combination of dampness, phlegm and blood stasis, which is blocked in the blood vessels and meridians of the liver. Therefore, regulating qi-flowing, eliminating phlegm-dampness, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and clearing the liver and gallbladder are the main methods for treating this disease in traditional Chinese medicine. The choice of daily diet for patients with fatty liver should also follow this principle. While paying attention to the color, smell and taste of food, try to choose foods that meet the actual needs of individuals.
List of foods to help the liver "lose weight"
Foods with fatty liver preventing and treating effects and nutrition metabolism improving effects;
Patients with fatty liver who are uncomfortable with the right hypochondriac rib (that is, the right chest from the armpit to the sternum) and easy to get angry can eat more vegetables, chrysanthemum, tomatoes, shepherd’s purse, etc., which can clear away heat and cool the liver;
Patients with bad breath, constipation and fatty liver who overeat greasy food can eat more vegetables and fruits rich in vitamins and cellulose, such as radish, bamboo shoots, wax gourd, loofah, celery, cucumber, water chestnut and hawthorn fruit, which can clear away heat, promote bowel movement and facilitate urination;
Fatty liver patients with physical weakness can choose low-fat and high-protein foods such as pork lean meat, pigeon meat, rabbit meat, beef lean meat, skim milk, soybean milk, etc., which can tonify liver and kidney, replenish qi and nourish blood.
Food unsuitable for patients with fatty liver:
Pig fat, goose, duck eggs, animal oil, animal viscera and animal brain have high fat content; Crab, crab roe, squid, cuttlefish, clam meat and anchovies are high in cholesterol, so it is advisable to eat less or not. Because sugar will turn into fat in the body, which will aggravate fatty liver, it is better to eat less high-sugar foods such as litchi, longan pulp, candied fruit, preserved fruit and sugar.
Selection of staple food and oil:
It is suggested that fatty liver patients should choose vegetable oils such as vegetable oil, sesame oil, cottonseed oil and peanut oil, because they contain more unsaturated fatty acids and have the effect of lowering blood cholesterol. The staple food can be low-sugar foods such as corn flour, buckwheat flour, oat flour, bean flour and other products. These foods are coarse grains, which can reduce qi and broaden the intestines and cleanse the greasy stomach.
One porridge, one soup and one tea are most suitable for liver "fat"
Patients with fatty liver in daily life can also choose medicated diet for conditioning:
Hawthorn Carassius auratus soup: Take 30g of raw hawthorn, one crucian carp, 10g of immature bitter orange, appropriate amount of ginger and water, and drink the soup after cooking. Regular administration of this decoction can promote blood circulation and qi circulation, and has a certain effect on hypochondriac swelling pain or acupuncture-like pain, or hepatomegaly and purple tongue.
Pueraria flower tea: 15g of Pueraria flower, 10g of Salvia miltiorrhiza, 4-5 tablets of Ilex kudingcha, appropriate amount of water, boiling and simmering for 30min, and taking the juice as tea. Used for long-term alcoholism and mutual stagnation of dampness and blood stasis.
Codonopsis pilosula millet porridge: 10 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 10 grams of Poria cocos, 20 grams of lentils, boiled for 30 minutes with appropriate amount of water, added with 100 grams of millet, and cooked with slow fire. For people with weak temper, such as listlessness, pale complexion and loss of appetite, this porridge can be taken frequently.
Special reminder that dietotherapy doesn’t work, hurry up with medication.
Experts pointed out that while adjusting the diet structure, patients with fatty liver should also take appropriate exercise to keep their mood comfortable, which is helpful for the treatment of fatty liver.
Special reminder, for those who have the primary disease or the above methods can not be effective, they must go to a regular hospital to find a specialist to deal with it, and cooperate with drug treatment to avoid delaying the illness.