The Liver and Gall Bladder:
The liver does many important jobs for our body. It absorbs part of the food (constituents) digested by our digestive system and creates thousands of nutrients for the body each day. Most boy organs depend on the liver to create the nutrients that they need each day to be healthy. For examples (according to sources), the liver produces about 200 nutrients just for our eyes. It also removes certain type of poisons (toxins) and wastes from our body. So, the health of many organs of our body depends also on the health of the liver.
The liver can be called the main “chemical machine” in our body. It makes a substance called bile (“Pita” or “Pitta” according to Ayurveda, we hope to post many about Ayurveda), which helps digestion. Bile contains a mixture of chemicals and nutrients that the body (digestive system) uses to properly digest fats, oils, cholesterol and some other nutrients.
The gall bladder is a part of the liver and basically acts as a storage bag for bile. Bile is sent to the beginning of our small intestines (the duodenum) when the partially digested food is passed into the small intestines from the stomach. There, the bile mixes with the food to further help the process of digestion.
If our gall bladder gets too weak, practically any disease can eventually occur. This is because, when we have a weak liver, many poisons remain in our body, and not enough nutrients are produce to nourish the other body organs. Then these body organs too become weak allowing the disease easily attack our body.
Also when our gall bladder is unhealthy, it may become clogged with gallstones. A gallstone is a hard mass forming from minerals or hardened bile. The passage away through which bile passes into the small intestine (the duodenum) is called the bile duct. So, if a gallstone gets clogged in the bile duct, we have to suffer from a painful “gall bladder attack”. The picture shows you how the liver, gall bladder, pancreas etc situated in our body.
