Food Therapy for Benefiting the Liver

Medicated diets for benefiting the liver are cooked by mixing Chinese materia medica chosen for nourishing the liver and blood, improving acuity of vision, calming the endopathic wind and checking exuberance of yang into certain foods. They have the effects of nourishing the liver and blood, improving acuity of vision and concurrently nourishing the kidney, checking exuberance of yang, tranquilizing the mind, and are applicable to stirring up of endopathic wind of deficiency type caused by excess of yang due to deficiency of the liver blood and liver-yin, manifested as giddiness, dim vision, or distending pain, dryness and discomfort of the eyes, hot temper and irritability, pain in the hypochondria, numbness of hands and feet, or even hemiplegia, and taut, thready and rapid pulse.