Which vegetables can help relieve liver fire?
Disease description:
My liver fire has been excessive recently, with symptoms of constipation and dry stools. I would like to know which vegetables can help reduce liver fire.
There are various vegetables that help to clear excessive heat from the liver, including mainly the following categories:
1. Bitter vegetables: such as bitter melon and edible bitter greens. These vegetables have a naturally bitter taste and possess effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, effectively relieving excessive liver heat.
2. Green leafy vegetables: such as Chinese flowering cabbage, lettuce, butterhead lettuce, spinach, and celery. These vegetables are rich in chlorophyll and various vitamins, which help eliminate internal heat toxins and alleviate symptoms of excessive liver fire.
3. Gourd vegetables: such as luffa, winter melon, and cucumber. These vegetables are cool in nature and have functions of promoting diuresis to reduce edema and clearing heat to relieve summerheat, thus exerting positive effects in clearing liver fire.
4. Root and stem vegetables: such as lotus root, white radish, and carrot. These vegetables are not only nutritionally rich but also help regulate the body's yin-yang balance and alleviate discomfort caused by excessive liver heat.