1. Is drinking green tea good for fatty liver?
Green tea is rich in tea polyphenols, which can improve the activity of liver lipase and reduce the content of lipid peroxide in liver tissue. Its oxidation product, tea pigment, has certain effects of regulating blood lipid and lowering cholesterol. It should be noted that patients with fatty liver with weak spleen and stomach should not drink green tea, because green tea is easy to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and easily aggravate the discomfort of the gastrointestinal tract. Fatty liver has a lot of attention to drinking tea. Only by grasping the choice of tea varieties, time and quantity can we give full play to its positive and beneficial side. Finally, it should be emphasized that drinking tea can only play a certain auxiliary role and is indispensable for the basic treatment of fatty liver.
2. Etiology of fatty liver
obesity fatty liver
The degree of liver fat accumulation is directly proportional to body weight. 30% ~ 50% of obese people are complicated with fatty liver, and the pathological rate of fatty liver in severely obese people is as high as 6 1% ~ 94%. After the weight of obese people is controlled, their fat infiltration will also decrease or disappear.
Alcoholic fatty liver
Liver biopsy of long-term alcoholics showed that 75% ~ 95% had fat infiltration. It has also been observed that drinking more than 80 ~ 160 grams per day will increase the incidence of alcoholic fatty liver by 5 ~ 25 times.
Fatty liver with rapid weight loss
Fasting, excessive dieting or other rapid weight loss measures can cause a large increase in lipolysis in a short time, consume glutathione (GSH) in the liver, increase malondialdehyde and lipid peroxide in the liver, damage liver cells and lead to fatty liver.
3. Clinical manifestations of fatty liver
The clinical manifestations of fatty liver are diverse, and mild fatty liver has no clinical symptoms. Only fatigue, fatty liver patients are mostly fat. Fatty liver patients are not just discovered by accident during physical examination. Moderate and severe fatty liver has symptoms similar to chronic hepatitis, such as loss of appetite, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, dull pain in liver area or right upper abdomen, etc. Slightly swollen liver may have tenderness, slightly hard texture, blunt edge and smooth surface, and a few patients may have spleen enlargement and liver palm. When too much fat is deposited in the liver, it can make the liver capsule swell and the hepatic ligament stretch, causing severe pain or tenderness in the right upper abdomen, fever and increased white blood cell count, which is misdiagnosed as acute abdomen and laparotomy is performed. In addition, patients with fatty liver often have changes in peripheral neuritis such as glossitis, angular stomatitis, skin ecchymosis, limb numbness and abnormal limb sensation. A few patients can also have gastrointestinal bleeding, gingival bleeding, nosebleed and so on. Patients with severe fatty liver may have abdominal effusion and edema of lower limbs, and electrolyte disorders such as hyponatremia and hypokalemia. Fatty liver has many manifestations. When it is difficult to diagnose, liver biopsy can be done to confirm the diagnosis.
What kind of tea does fatty liver drink?
1, notoginseng chrysanthemum tea:
Ingredients: 5 grams of notoginseng flower, 5 grams of chrysanthemum, green tea 1 gram.
Method: Put notoginseng flower, chrysanthemum and green tea into a cup and soak it in boiling water for 10 minute.
Usage: Take orally and brew for 3-5 times. Can be drunk for a long time.
Efficacy: Suitable for fatty liver.
2, mung bean chrysanthemum tea:
Ingredients: chrysanthemum 10g, mung bean paste 30g, lemon 10g, and a little honey.
Practice: Boil the chrysanthemum water, pour the juice of lemon and mung bean paste into the chrysanthemum water and stir, and add a little honey to drink.
Usage: Take orally twice a day.
Efficacy: detoxification and beauty, blood circulation and fat elimination.
3. Sesame slimming tea
Ingredients: 20g sesame paste, 6g green tea.
Method: Put the green tea into a cotton paper bag, seal and hang the thread, and put the sesame paste into the cup. Put the green tea into a cup with sesame sauce, brew it with boiling water, cover it and drink it after 10 minutes.
Usage: brew and drink twice a day.
Efficacy: detoxify and remove blood stasis, promote blood circulation and eliminate fat. It is suitable for various types of fatty liver.
What is good for fatty liver?
sweet potato
Sweet potato can neutralize too much acid produced by too much meat and eggs in the body and keep the acid-base balance of the human body. It can absorb more water in the gastrointestinal tract, lubricate the digestive tract, relieve constipation, expel excessive fat, sugar and toxins in the intestine, and reduce blood fat.
oat
The water-soluble fiber contained in oats can effectively reduce the absorption of cholesterol in the intestine, thus changing the concentration of fatty acids in the blood and reducing cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood, which is also very beneficial to the treatment of fatty liver.
konjac
Amorphophallus konjac is a kind of food with low calorie and high dietary fiber. Delaying gastric emptying and digestion and absorption of food in intestine can effectively reduce postprandial blood sugar level, and has the effects of reducing blood lipid and resisting fatty liver. Konjac processed food also has obvious weight loss effect.
Giant algae
Kelp is rich in taurine, which can reduce cholesterol and bile sweat in blood; Dietary fiber alginic acid can inhibit the absorption of cholesterol and promote its excretion. ?