To lose weight in summer, you must first nourish your liver and improve your metabolism! Chinese medicine doctor Li Congjie: Eat liver-nourishing vegetables and drink liver-nourishing tea to help lose weight

People wear less in the summer, and many people start to pay attention to their weight, hoping to get rid of accumulated fat. Li Congjie, director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Changhua Christian Hospital, pointed out that Chinese medicine believes that the functioning of the human organs is closely related to the changing of the seasons. When losing weight in the summer, don't forget the principle of "nourishing the heart and protecting the liver". Eating more dark green vegetables and drinking liver-nourishing teas can improve metabolism and increase weight loss effects.

Nourishing Yang in Spring and Summer, Nourishing Liver Vegetables Help Losing Weight

Li Congjie, director of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Changhua Christian Hospital's Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that after a long rest in the cold winter and overeating during the Chinese New Year, the body's metabolism of waste substances is far slower than the accumulation of calories and fat, which makes it easy to become obese. However, the ancients believed that "in spring and summer, nourish yang, and in autumn and winter, nourish yin". As long as you follow the seasons and take good care of your body in the spring when the weather is getting warmer, you can improve your metabolism, eliminate excess fat, and help lose weight.

If you want to improve your basal metabolic rate, the first thing to do is to "nourish your liver" and consume more dark green vegetables such as spinach. This can not only soothe the liver and regulate qi, and promote the normal functioning of other organs, but also prevent constipation, help moisturize the intestines and promote bowel movements, and also improve the effectiveness of weight loss. In addition, traditional Chinese medicine has the concept of "like nourishes like" and believes that pork liver, which is rich in iron and vitamins, can "replenish the liver with the liver" and is also one of the best ingredients for maintaining the liver.

Eating more dark green vegetables such as spinach can not only soothe the liver and regulate qi, and promote the normal functioning of other organs, but also prevent constipation, help moisturize the intestines and promote bowel movements, and also improve the effectiveness of weight loss.

If those who want to lose weight want to eat healthily and light in the spring, in addition to cooking spinach and pork liver soup, they can also add kidney-protecting ingredients to liver-nourishing ingredients and cook them together to enhance the health and metabolic efficiency of the liver and kidneys. Common kidney-protecting ingredients include black foods such as black beans, black fungus, kelp, and sea cucumber.

Drinking tea can help you lose weight, first nourish your liver and improve your metabolism

In addition to liver-nourishing diet therapy, Chinese medicine practitioner Li Congjie recommends that obese people can drink lotus leaf and hawthorn tea to promote fat metabolism and enhance weight loss results; ordinary people can drink black plum and rose drink to soothe the liver and regulate qi, preventing excess calories and fat accumulation from causing body shape changes and affecting health.

【Plum Rose Drink】

• Ingredients: 5 to 8 roses, 1 to 2 black plums, 300 to 500cc of water.

• Method: Place the above herbs in cold water, heat until the water boils, then reduce heat and continue to cook for about 3 minutes; or brew with hot water, cover and simmer for about 15 minutes before drinking.

• Description: Rose can soothe the liver and regulate qi, while black plum can nourish the lungs and liver. Both have the effect of relieving constipation. This tea is suitable for drinking during the day when Yang energy is strong. Drinking it at night may cause nocturnal urination and disturb sleep. Drinking one cup a day can be used as a maintenance tea to nourish the liver and resolve stool accumulation. Black plums can also be replaced with 1 to 2 slices of fresh lemon, which also has the effect of soothing the liver and softening the stool.

Rose has the function of soothing the liver and regulating qi, while black plum can nourish the lungs and liver, and both have the effect of relieving constipation.

【Lotus Leaf Hawthorn Tea】

• Ingredients: 3 qian of lotus leaf, 3 qian of hawthorn, 500cc of water.

• Method: Wash the herbs with clean water, add water and boil for 5 to 10 minutes, or brew with hot water for 15 to 20 minutes, let it cool and drink.

• Description: This tea has the effect of lowering blood fat and promoting metabolism. Drinking one cup a day, either morning or evening, can help control weight. It is especially suitable for obese or overweight people.