Heat, stress, fat, stress relief, slimming tea, slimming

Do you often stay up late and have a lot of stress in life, and rely on overeating to relieve it? When the human body is under high pressure for a long time, it will secrete stress hormones, which will invisibly help fat accumulate and form "stress fat". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that obesity caused by stress, staying up late, etc. is related to liver fire. In addition to obesity, it can also cause chest tightness, depression, irritability, etc. Doctors suggest that developing a regular work and rest schedule is the only way to clear the liver and eliminate fire. You can also prepare your own stress-relieving and slimming tea to nourish your liver and lose weight.

Staying up late and stress cause obesity, which in turn leads to excessive liver fire and affected mood.

Chinese medicine practitioner Zhang Wenxin said that Chinese medicine believes that "the liver is responsible for regulating qi and blood", which means that the "liver" has the function of keeping the whole body's qi and blood flowing smoothly, regulating emotional activities, affecting digestion and absorption, and maintaining blood circulation. The "liver" mentioned in Chinese medicine not only refers to the liver, but also includes the autonomic nervous system, emotional regulation, etc. Once the work and rest schedule is abnormal and stress increases, it is easy to cause liver fire to rise, which not only causes obesity but also affects emotions.

Common symptoms of liver fire include bad breath, sore mouth, dry mouth, headache, stiff and sore shoulders and neck, chest tightness and shortness of breath, irritability, insomnia, indigestion, stomach acid, bloating, constipation, etc. If you want to improve the symptoms, you must first start by adjusting your lifestyle.

Doctor Zhang Wenxin mentioned that the "Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic" records: "When a person lies down, the blood returns to the liver." Sufficient sleep is the key secret to maintaining beauty and health. No health products or diets can compare to a good night's sleep. Try to go to bed before 11 pm, because according to meridian theory, the circulation of qi and blood in the liver and gallbladder meridians is most active between 11 pm and 3 am. You can also use pink roses, hawthorn, lotus leaves, licorice, etc. to make stress-relieving and slimming tea to help eliminate heat and lose weight.

Stress Relief and Slimming Tea

[Materials]: 2 cents of pink rose, 2 cents of hawthorn, 1 cent of lotus leaf, 1 cent of licorice.

[Preparation]: Wash the herbs first, wrap them in a filter bag, put them in a cup, pour in 800cc of boiling water, and steep for 20 minutes before taking it as tea, which can soothe the liver and clear away heat.

[Note]: People who are prone to diarrhea can replace pink roses with red roses, because pink roses have a slight laxative effect.

Ingredients for stress-relieving and slimming tea. (Photography by Huang Zilun)