The time of celebration has passed and our body is returning to its usual biorhythm and “balanced” consumption of food and drinks. But exaggeration will not go without consequences for everyone. So now many feel that their liver is overloaded because it is trying to be our biolaboratory again, and that often hurts.
In order to balance the condition, no rigorous diets are needed. It is only necessary to choose food that will help the liver, and to drink herbal teas, proven “friends” of the liver. Let us remind you why it is important to help the liver as soon as possible.
A mixture of several plants is best
The liver is the primary organ responsible for removing and breaking down toxins that accumulate in our body. It also produces bile, a “detoxification agent” that is metabolically necessary to digest dietary fat. Now it is completely clear how important the health of our liver is for every organism.
The first aid is herbal teas that have a beneficial effect on the liver. These are yarrow, mint, dandelion, sage, fennel, nightshade or veronica, milk thistle, artichoke, sycamore, viper grass or thistle as it is called in some places, licorice or sweet root, turmeric, then bitter herbs such as wormwood, kicica or mustard, lincura, chicory, St. John’s wort.
Artichoke (Cynara scolymus) is one of the best healing plants for the liver, it contains caffeic acid and its derivatives that have shown powerful effects on liver regeneration. For this purpose, a leaf is used that is dried in the shade, crushed dry and stored in a glass jar.
Chinese artichoke – tasty, healthy and medicinal
Some of the benefits of using this vegetable are: it increases the secretion of bile and improves the digestion of fats, it reduces the level of cholesterol in the blood, it removes gastrointestinal problems such as flatulence, nausea, abdominal pain, hangovers and constipation, it encourages the growth of good gastrointestinal bacteria (thanks to inulin, a prebiotic fiber).
Milk thistle is also a well-known herb for liver regeneration. This is due to one of its active ingredients – silymarin, a group of compounds that act as antioxidants, reducing inflammation and protecting the liver from damage.
These antioxidants help the liver to repair itself and can slow the progression of liver diseases such as hepatitis. Burdock tea also helps protect the liver from alcohol damage, which is why it is traditionally used as a hangover cure.
Licorice or licorice tea has numerous benefits for human health, including more efficient liver functioning. Like milk thistle, licorice is anti-inflammatory and helps protect the liver from the effects of drinking too much alcohol. Its main active component is glycyrrhizin, which has antiviral and antibacterial properties in addition to fighting inflammation.
Glycyrrhizin also helps break down enzymes associated with liver disease and prevents damage to this organ. Sikavica, viper grass or thistle fruit (Silybum marianum) is also rich in silymarin and works like licorice tea. Peppermint – Peppermint (Mentha piperita) Peppermint not only eliminates bad breath, it stimulates the flow of bile and relaxes the bile ducts, thus facilitating the digestion of fat.
It also helps reduce bad cholesterol, which makes the liver’s job of filtering out toxins easier. Dandelion root (Taraxacum officinale) protects and cleanses the liver. Organic turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a powerful protector of the liver and even a regenerator of liver cells. Not only does it help stimulate enzyme responses to eliminate toxins (including known carcinogens) from the body, it also destroys the negative effects of various carcinogens.
You can also buy a prepared mixture
In domestic folk medicine, the best medicinal plants for the liver are also St. John’s wort, valued for its effect on the liver and the mucous membrane of the esophagus and throat, calendula, which has great regenerative properties for the liver and has worked many miracles, and yarrow soothes inflammation and accelerates the healing of damage, then lincura, blue lincura and wormwood stimulate the work of the liver due to their bitter taste, St. John’s wort calms inflammation of the liver, and rosopas, due to its strong effect, is used to expel sand from the bile and as the ultimate therapy for the most serious diseases of the biological laboratory of our body.
You can buy a ready-made mixture of these herbs in humane pharmacies, so you can start the “treatment” as soon as tomorrow. The tea is prepared from one tablespoon of the herb, which is poured with 200 ml of boiling water, left to cool, strained and drunk before eating. So, three times a day.
If you have the opportunity to collect medicinal plants, start already in the spring. Wash, dry and store everything you collect in glass jars. And you can also buy each individual plant, which you are sure would be good for your body and liver, in a health food store, make your own tea mixture, store it in a glass jar and prepare tea from one tablespoon each.
It is important to know that just drinking a cup of tea three times a day will not regenerate the liver for a lifetime. It is important to correct the diet, to create a menu that will include food that pleases the liver. Remember, every bite and sip you take into your body, as well as various medicines, which in many cases are unavoidable and the only way to save life, will pass through one of the most vital organs – the liver.
It is one of the largest and most important organs in the body, so any intake of food and drink that does not please it and burdens it, can cause permanent damage to it. But there are also foods that clean the liver and should be consumed as often as possible.
These are garlic, citrus fruits, beets, green tea, green leafy vegetables in which the favorites are spinach, kale, swiss chard, green salad, mint when the young leaves are added to the salad, pineapple, ginger, nuts, cabbage as a salad or its juice , sauerkraut and pickle. And there are six hundred of them, which were used by our ancestors in various parts of our country, in the time when there were no medicines.
Source: www.agromedia.rs
