How can I sleep well?
Comb your hair before going to bed: recuperate the whole body meridians
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the head is the home of the brain and the "intellectual home" of the body, connecting the meridians of the whole body. Appropriate stimulation of head acupoints is beneficial to improve brain function, regulate meridians of the whole body, and achieve the purpose of disease prevention and health preservation.
Patients suffering from hypertension, arteriosclerosis and neurasthenia should insist on combing their hair and stimulate acupuncture points on the head through the comb, which can calm the liver, calm the wind, enlighten the mind and play an auxiliary therapeutic role in the disease.
How to comb your hair?
Comb your hair with a comb, or you can directly use your fingers instead of the comb. When combing with five fingers, comb your hair from front to back with your fingers from the hairline on your forehead to the hairline on the back of your neck, and rub your scalp while combing. The movement is slow and gentle, about 10 minutes each time.
Stretching before going to bed: the tendon is one inch long and the life span is extended by ten years.
Stretching is the simplest and most practical health-keeping exercise. There is a folk proverb that "stretching often can relieve fatigue and nourish blood and heart", which is an old saying.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the so-called "one inch long tendon can prolong life for ten years", and proper stretching, such as stretching, is helpful to dredge meridians, promote blood circulation, and adjust the balance of yin and yang in viscera, which is a good self-care method.
How to stretch
When stretching, try to stretch your body, straighten your limbs and exert all your muscles. When stretching, try to inhale; When you relax, you should relax all your muscles and exhale as much as possible, so that the effect of exercise will be better.
Pushing the abdomen before going to bed: appetizing and strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidney and nourishing the heart
Pushing the abdomen is a simple way to clean up the garbage in the meridians, so as to achieve the purpose of soothing the liver and regulating qi, stimulating appetite and strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidney and nourishing the heart, which is very useful for the effect of getting fat due to emotional illness.
Pushing the abdomen itself before going to bed can reduce the fat in the abdomen and lower body, because pushing the abdomen can bring fresh blood to the abdomen and lower body, and the meridians are opened, which can also achieve the effect of reducing fat and losing weight.
How to push the abdomen:
It is best to lie on the bed, first make a fist with both hands and push it from the center of the chest to the bottom of the navel. There is only one direction, don't push backwards.
In the process of pushing, the strength should be moderate, and at the same time feel whether there is any abnormality in the abdomen, so push 10-20 times, and push carefully where there is a hard lump, and there is likely to be a place where internal fat is squeezed out.
Knocking on the gallbladder before going to bed: promoting blood circulation and detoxifying, and removing garbage.
Massage and beating the gallbladder meridian can relax the meridians, dredge the meridians, and promote blood circulation and detoxification. When the blood circulation is fast, the body will have enough energy to eliminate garbage, and the edema and toxins in the body will naturally be removed.
The patrol route of gallbladder meridian in lower limbs is along the lateral midline of thigh and lower limbs to between the little finger and the second toe. One sign is easy to find, that is, along the line from the middle of trousers to the side of knees, there are mainly four acupoints: Huantiao, Shi Feng, Zhongdu and Knee Yangguan.
Don't knock if you stay up too late. Because the liver and gallbladder are internal and external dirty, knocking on the gallbladder meridian after 1 1 at night is easy to cause liver fire.
Soaking feet before going to bed: relieve fatigue and help sleep.
The foot is the farthest part of the human body from the heart, which has a great influence on blood return, especially on the lower body. Soaking your feet with hot water before going to bed can not only relieve fatigue, but also help you sleep. Soaking feet with hot water can improve local blood circulation, dispel cold and promote metabolism.
How to soak your feet
The best water temperature for soaking feet is below 50℃, which requires hot but not scalding. Feel the water temperature with your feet instead of your hands. The best time is 15-20 minutes. If the time is too long, the local blood circulation in the foot is too fast for a long time, and the blood in the body will flow more to the lower limbs, resulting in cardiovascular overload. It is not advisable to soak your feet within half an hour after a meal, which will affect the blood supply to your stomach and lead to malnutrition in the long run. You can't sleep immediately after soaking your feet. Rub your feet when your feet are hot, and wear socks to keep warm in time. It is best to go to bed after the whole body heat gradually decreases. Drink a glass of water before going to bed: prevent thrombosis and protect the heart.
Developing the habit of drinking water before going to bed can reduce blood viscosity, keep blood flow unobstructed, and prevent the formation of cerebral thrombosis to some extent.
In addition, when we sleep, the water in the body is lost due to sweating, which leads to the reduction of water in the blood and the viscosity of the blood will become very high. But if you drink a glass of water before going to bed, you can reduce the viscosity of blood and reduce the risk of heart attack.
How to drink water
Even if you are not thirsty before going to bed, you'd better drink a small glass of water, and this glass of water is best matched with boiled water. It is suggested that cardiovascular patients put a glass of water beside the bed and wake up at night to have a drink. For diabetics, keeping a certain amount of water is also beneficial to control blood sugar.