People are prone to insomnia for various reasons when they are old. What should the elderly do if they are prone to insomnia? Originally, the elderly have less sleep time. If you lose sleep again, it will seriously affect the rest of the elderly. If it continues for a long time, it will bring a huge burden to the health of the elderly. What should the elderly do if they are prone to insomnia? Let's learn how to treat insomnia in the elderly.
What should the elderly do if they are prone to insomnia? 1 1. Relax.
It is best not to read books before going to bed, think less about problems, and exercise indoors and outdoors for a while before going to bed. And arrange the best time.
Step 2 eat bird's nest
Eating bird's nest for the elderly has many benefits. Bird's nest is rich in nutrition, in which the proportion of water-soluble protein is as high as 50%, while carbohydrate accounts for 30%. In addition, there are various amino acids (lysine, arginine, neuraminic acid, sialic acid) and trace elements such as calcium, iron, sodium, potassium and phosphorus. Old people often eat bird's nest, which has the functions of calming the nerves, strengthening the brain, improving sleep, delaying aging, improving immunity and supplementing calcium.
3, bite hypnosis
Lie on your back in bed and tap your teeth twice a second. Count the knocks silently at the same time, from 1 to 100, and then from 1. Under normal circumstances, you can fall asleep by knocking your teeth 200~300 times. Teeth-biting hypnosis and head-shaking hypnosis 7 Lying on the bed on your back, gently swinging your head from the middle to the right, the swinging angle is about 5~ 10 degrees, and the swinging speed is 1 sec ~2 seconds. Count silently when swinging, consistent with the method of knocking your teeth. With the increase of swing times, the amplitude and speed of swing gradually decrease.
4, fatigue hypnosis
Take a hot bath or iron your feet with hot water, or hypnotize with a fitness ball. When the fitness ball rotates in the palm of your hand, it can dredge meridians, regulate qi and blood, eliminate fatigue, restore blood pressure to normal and improve sleep.
Why do the elderly suffer from insomnia?
In old age, due to various factors, the functions of various organs of the body are disordered, while in old age, insomnia due to the loss of dynamic balance of yin and yang leads to sleep disorders.
Do you know what to do about insomnia in the elderly?
It is suggested that the elderly often eat bird's nest, which has extremely high nutritional value. Many elderly people will suffer from memory loss when they get older, and even have Alzheimer's disease. Bird's nest acid in bird's nest has a good promoting effect on the brain and helps to improve the memory of the elderly.
Bird's nest is rich in protein and bird's nest acid, and the pure natural bird's nest tastes like egg white. Has the effects of nourishing, moistening lung, caring skin, moistening human body, nourishing yin and benefiting qi, and regulating body. Zhan Yan can be stewed with crystal sugar, walnuts, red dates, osmanthus fragrans, medlar and ginseng after being soaked in clear water or purified water. , not only can effectively improve the water content and cell vitality in the human body, but also is a tonic and gift for pregnant women with high nutritional value.
What should the elderly do with insomnia? 2 How does Chinese medicine treat insomnia in the elderly?
1. Ganmai Jujube Soup: Float wheat 60g, licorice 20g, jujube 15 (peeled). First, clean and soak floating wheat and jujube, and then add licorice to decoct. After the floating wheat and jujube are cooked, the licorice and wheat are taken out, and the jujube is eaten twice to fill the soup. This prescription is the famous prescription of Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in Han Dynasty. Although this medicine is common, it has remarkable effects of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves.
Second, Salvia miltiorrhiza crystal sugar water: Salvia miltiorrhiza 30g, add 300ml of water, fry with slow fire (low fire) for 20 minutes, remove slag, add appropriate amount of crystal sugar and cook for a while, and take it twice. Salvia miltiorrhiza is bitter and slightly cold, which can promote blood circulation and soothe the nerves. It can soothe the nerves of patients with chronic insomnia and improve the original diseases of patients with coronary heart disease and chronic hepatitis.
3. Tea leaves and Ziziphus jujuba seeds: Before 8 o'clock every morning, take 15g green tea and brew it with boiling water twice, drink it off at one gulp, and stop drinking tea after 8 o'clock; At the same time, stir-fry Ziziphus Spinosae seeds and grind them into powder, and take them with boiling water every night before going to bed 10g. Take it continuously for 3 ~ 5 days, and it will take effect.
Lily syrup soup: lily 100g, add 500ml of water, cook with slow fire until cooked, add appropriate amount of sugar, and take it twice. Lily tastes bitter and slightly cold, which can clear the heart and soothe the nerves, and cure anxiety, insomnia and dreaminess.
In the treatment of insomnia in the elderly by traditional Chinese medicine, we introduced several methods of medicinal tea with better curative effect. Elderly patients can choose according to their own physical condition. If you already have diabetes, it is not recommended to choose the treatment method of Danshen rock sugar water. In addition, the elderly sleep lightly, and their families try to keep quiet during the rest of the elderly.