We often encounter some symptoms with obvious liver qi stagnation in clinic, but to give smooth liver qi herbal treatment only has little effect, or even appear qi consumption, qi broken, and yin deficiency sort of side effects. Why? We believe these are mainly due to kidney essence deficiency, cannot sufficiently nourish liver-wood; and heart blood deficiency cannot calm down spirit. When liver-wood is not been nourished, liver qi gets stagnated. When heart blood is insufficient, the mood gets irritated. This phenomenon is similar to sail a boat in dry rivers. To make the sail easy, we must increase water flow. To make the liver qi smooth and heart spirit calm, we must nourish yin and blood. Once yin and blood is sufficient, liver-wood and heart-spirit have been nourished, liver qi naturally become smooth and mind become tranquil. Adding sedation and calm treatment at the same time of smoothing liver qi, will have more enhanced treatment efficacy. The sedation and calm treatment can soothe the nerves to ease excessive emotion impulse to help reducing the overgrown of liver-fire. The method can be similar described as reducing burden and promoting the sailing of boat.
Key words: nourish blood, calm down spirit, regulate liver, emotional illness, deficiency type
Zhimin Lu, Lingzhi Sun
Chinese medicine [3] hospital in Hengshui City, Hebei Province (053000)
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