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Why does staying up late hurt?
How do people who stay up late adjust their bodies: auricular point pressing pills to soothe the nerves and help them sleep nowadays, people's nightlife is becoming more and more abundant, and staying up late seems to be a "fashion", but this unhealthy lifestyle has brought great hidden dangers to health. Often staying up late, symptoms such as yin deficiency and excessive fire can easily bother you. Coupled with the dry climate in winter, people like to eat some hot foods that resist the cold, which is more likely to aggravate the symptoms of "getting angry". At this time, you can try Chinese medicine therapy, which is very helpful to relieve symptoms. Sleeping restlessly was originally caused by "virtual fire". Chinese medicine believes that staying up late will cause yin deficiency and fire, so Chinese medicine says that yin deficiency and fire are more common in "night owls" and elderly people who often stay up late. The main symptoms of insomnia patients with yin deficiency and excessive fire are difficulty falling asleep before going to bed, waking up early or intermittently, or having more MUBI dreams, being fond of sleeping, or having difficulty sleeping all night, and they often have symptoms such as upset, palpitation, fever of hands and feet, night sweats, thirst, dry throat, erosion of tongue and mouth, red tongue, less fur, and thready pulse. The "fire" that causes trouble is not a "real fire" that can be resolved simply by drinking herbal tea, but a "virtual fire" as mentioned by Chinese medicine. The viscera involved in insomnia of yin deficiency and fire excess are mainly heart and kidney. According to the theory of five elements in traditional Chinese medicine, the heart belongs to fire, the kidney belongs to water, and water can control fire. Under physiological conditions, the kidney helps the heart fire to replenish water, so that the heart fire will not be too strong and disturb the mind. Frequent staying up late, excessive sexual intercourse, and gradual decline of kidney qi in the elderly. As a result, the kidney water is not enough to control the fire, the heart fire will be strong, disturbing the mind, the kidney yin deficiency will be strong, and the yin and yang will not be harmonious, thus causing insomnia. It can be seen that the general pathological mechanism of this kind of insomnia is yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity. Treating insomnia safely and effectively is a chronic disease. Traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture have the characteristics of neither addiction nor dependence that sleeping pills do not have. Therefore, insomnia patients choose TCM syndrome differentiation treatment, and the effect is obvious. Insomnia patients with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire can try Chinese medicine health care therapy. Treatment 1: Don't stay up late and eat lightly. Insomnia due to yin deficiency and excessive fire is closely related to staying up late and eating. Chinese medicine believes that midnight (between 23:00-65438+ 0: 00 every other day) is the transition time of yin and yang. If you don't sleep after midnight, you will easily consume yin and body fluid. In addition, the humid climate in the south, eating too much spicy food, smoking, drinking and other bad habits are easy to lead to the loss of body fluid and endogenous virtual fire. Therefore, the most effective way to avoid insomnia due to yin deficiency and excessive fire is to live regularly and get into the habit of falling asleep and getting up regularly. We should also change bad eating habits, try to eat lightly and avoid alcohol and tobacco. Patients with insomnia due to yin deficiency and excessive fire should eat tremella, Ganoderma lucidum, lily, day lily, lotus seed, Ziziphus jujuba seed, yellow croaker and other foods. Here are some dietotherapy remedies: jujube kernel and rehmannia porridge: 20 grams of jujube kernel, 0/5 grams of rehmannia/kloc, and 0/00 grams of japonica rice/kloc. Cooking porridge can nourish yin and soothe the nerves. Longan jujube porridge: longan meat 15g, jujube 5 ~ 10g, japonica rice 100g. Cooking porridge can nourish blood and soothe the nerves. Semen Platycladi porridge: Semen Platycladi 10 ~ 15g, appropriate amount of honey and 50 ~ 100g of japonica rice. Cooking porridge has the function of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves, and is suitable for people with palpitations, insomnia and forgetfulness. Salt lotus plumule tea: Boil 30 plumula Nelumbinis with water, add salt, and take it every night before going to bed. Has the effects of clearing away heat and improving sleep. Treatment 2: Stimulate the auricular points, and press the pills at the auricular points on the feet to select the points: Shenmen. Materials: small round particles with hard and smooth surface (mostly seedless seeds, available in pharmacies), adhesive tape (cut into small pieces with the size of 0.6 cm ×0.6 cm for use). Methods: First, put Vaccaria seed in the center of the cut adhesive tape, disinfect or scrub the auricle with 75% ethanol cotton swab, then aim the adhesive tape at the acupoints and gently apply pressure. Each application 1 time can be placed on the ear point for 3 ~ 5 days. Press it yourself when applying, 2 ~ 3 times a day. Foot massage therapy: Half an hour before going to bed every day, walk barefoot on the cobblestone road (you can also choose a simple plastic health road) for about 5 ~ 10 minutes. Treatment 3: If you have insomnia symptoms after acupuncture and medication for more than two weeks in a row, and you have dizziness, pain, palpitation, upset and other symptoms. It affects work, study and social activities during the day and needs medication. The measures of traditional Chinese medicine are: nourishing yin to reduce fire and calming the nerves. The traditional Chinese medicine prescription is Huanglian Ejiao decoction, which is mainly composed of Huanglian, Scutellaria baicalensis, Paeonia lactiflora, Ejiao and black-bone chicken. In the prescription, Coptidis Rhizoma and Scutellariae Radix reduce fire, and Paeonia lactiflora, Colla Corii Asini and Black-bone chicken nourish yin, which has the effects of clearing away heart fire and calming the nerves. Acupoints are mainly selected from heart meridian and kidney meridian, such as Shenmen, Neiguan, Zhao Hai and Daling. Acupuncture methods include purging heart meridian, tonifying kidney meridian and calming nerves. The above treatment methods of mild insomnia can still be used as adjuvant treatment. The related link is a simple prescription for people with yin deficiency and excessive fire ◆ Expose 250 grams of Ziziphus jujuba seeds at noon 1 hour, fry them slightly, grind them into powder with a pulverizer (or household soymilk machine), bottle them and seal them. Take a tablespoon before going to bed every night, add some honey, rinse with hot water, and take it after stirring, which can improve sleep. ◆ 50 grams of lotus seeds, add two bowls of water, cook for about half an hour, then take an egg, remove the egg white, put the yolk into the bowl, pour the boiled lotus seed soup, stir well, add a little rock sugar, and eat it once a night. This soup can clear the heart, soothe the nerves and improve sleep. /read-htm-tid-135550-keyword-%B0% Be% B9.html% D2 You can also visit the forum. There are many life tips and health tips in it. I hope my answer is helpful to you.

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