People who can sleep can live long.
Traditional Chinese medicine has always attached importance to sleep and health preservation, believing that "sleeping and eating are important tasks of health preservation" and "those who can sleep and eat can live forever". There is a cloud in Li Yu's Collected Works of Li Weng in the Qing Dynasty: "The key to health preservation is to sleep first. Sleep can restore essence, nourish qi, strengthen spleen and stomach, and strengthen bones and muscles. "
Two American scholars have studied 7000 people for five and a half years. They think that there are seven reasons that can affect people's life span, the most important of which is sleep.
Modern medical research shows that energy can be accumulated again after sleep, which can compensate the energy consumed in one day's activities and reserve new energy for the next day's activities.
A good sleep can eliminate general fatigue, rest brain nerves, endocrine, substance metabolism, cardiovascular activities, digestive function and respiratory function, promote the growth and self-repair of body tissues, enhance immune function and improve resistance to diseases, which is very important for health preservation.
Sleeping in childhood is the best way to nourish yin.
It is suggested to rest at midnight (9: 00 ~ 1 1: 00) and go to sleep at midnight (11:00). Chinese medicine believes that when Yin Qi is strong, you will fall asleep, and when Yang Qi is strong, you will wake up. Children are when the yang is the weakest and the yin is the most prosperous. At this time, sleeping is the best way to nourish yin and the quality of sleep is also the best.
It is best to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning, which is helpful for the generation of yang. If you go to bed late the night before, you have to get up before 5 am, and you can take a nap during the day.
Sleeping like a bow works well.
"Sleeping like a bow" can reduce the force of the center of the earth on the human body and make people feel relaxed and comfortable. Because people's hearts are mostly on the left side of the body, lying to the right side can reduce the pressure on the heart.
People who love snoring are also suitable for bow sleeping position, because snoring is prone to apnea. If you take the supine position, small tongue will fall backwards, which will easily lead to airway collapse, leading to poor airway circulation and aggravating snoring symptoms.
Yang can be gathered in the small bedroom.
When choosing the orientation of the living house, you should try to choose the house facing south. The sunlight of the house should not be blocked by the building in front, and try to avoid the cold and humid room, which is beneficial to joint health. In addition, for the elderly, it is suggested that the sleeping room should not be too big, mainly in Juyang.
Traditional health care pays attention to closing doors and windows when sleeping, because people will form a protective layer of yang on their body surface when they fall asleep, and ventilation at night will easily blow away the yang. It is recommended to take a bath before going to bed, or turn on the air conditioner in advance to cool the bedroom, but close the window and wear pajamas when sleeping.
Sleep orientation is particular.
Sun Simiao, a famous medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, mentioned in Qian Jin Fang that "mortals lie down, facing east in spring and summer, and facing west in autumn and winter". In other words, spring and summer belong to the sun, and the head should lie east; It is cloudy in autumn and winter, and the head should lie facing west, in order to conform to the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter".
Eat too much and can't sleep well.
If you eat too much for dinner, you will consume more gas. If you consume gas, you will get angry and disturb the yang. Lack of yang at night may lead to indigestion, food accumulates in the stomach, which will be converted into heat when it is suppressed for a long time, which is easy to produce stomach heat, so it is difficult to sleep well and affect the quality of sleep.
In addition, overeating at dinner will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, and the information of intense work will be continuously transmitted to the brain, causing insomnia and dreaminess, which will easily lead to neurasthenia and other diseases over time.
If middle-aged and elderly people overeat for a long time and repeatedly stimulate a large amount of insulin secretion, it will often cause the burden of insulin B cells to increase, leading to failure and inducing diabetes.
Sleep is very particular. From ancient times to the present, the problem of sleep orientation and orientation can promote sleep. There are also time, posture, environment and so on, all of which are very particular. You can adjust your sleep habits. The most important thing is not to eat too much and sleep well, which will affect the quality of sleep.