Sleep quality is often related to sleeping position, and different sleeping positions can also play different health-preserving roles. For netizens who need to raise their liver, the more suitable sleeping position is lying on their side.

Sleeping on the side is better for nourishing the liver.

Lying on your side is a sleeping position that many people usually take, and it is easy to turn to lying on your back. Because the liver meridian is on both sides of the human body, when lying on the side, whether lying on the left side or the right side, it can nourish liver qi. Because when people lie on their side, blood will naturally flow to the liver meridian, "the liver governs the storage of blood." As soon as the blood enters the liver meridian, the human body can sleep quietly and start the hematopoietic function for one day.

When lying on your side, make sure that the pillow can give your shoulders enough support: if the pillow is too low, your head will tilt downward; If the pillow is too high, the head will be stretched uncomfortably; Pillows that are too high and too low are very uncomfortable. This is why doctors like to emphasize the use of pillows of the right size.

How does sleeping on your side reduce the pressure on your body?

In order to make your side lying more comfortable and reduce the pressure on your body as much as possible, it is suggested that you try to find another pillow between your knees to keep your legs and hips at an appropriate distance, which is more conducive to relaxing your back.

Compared with lying on your side, another common sleeping position is lying on your back. When a person lies on his back, the Du Meridian and Bladder Meridian on his back are in close contact with the bed surface, so that the viscera supported and suspended by him are in a very calm and natural state, and qi and blood flow throughout the body through the human meridians. At the same time, supine can also support the head, neck and back well, so it is also a good sleeping position.

When sleeping on your back, you can put a pillow or trapezoidal pad under your knees to reduce the stiffness and discomfort of your back. If lying on your back makes snoring more serious, then you may wish to take a posture of lying on your side; Of course, if you have the habit of prone, but want to avoid prone, then put a pillow on your side to prevent prone.