One is disharmony between heart and kidney, the other is deficiency of qi and blood, and the third is disharmony between stomach.
Today, experts from Taiyuan Anding Hospital teach you three effective methods to treat insomnia and help you sleep soundly all night.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the human body surface is full of qi, just like the guards around the human body, who are famous for defending qi. They keep moving around the human body surface. During the day, Wei Qi moves in the yang part of the human body, and at night Wei Qi moves in the pudendal part, that is, in the yin meridian. As soon as the yang enters the yin meridian, people want to sleep. Wei Qi walked through the Yin Meridian. When he left the Yin Meridian, people would wake up. This is the explanation of sleep mechanism by Chinese medicine. Why do others suffer from insomnia? To put it simply, there are three reasons: one is disharmony between heart and kidney, the other is deficiency of qi and blood, and the third is disharmony between stomach.
Interpretation of insomnia in Taiyuan Anding Hospital
First, the heart and kidney do not intersect. If a person's heart is inflamed and the kidney goes underwater, it will form the image of separation of heart and kidney. The separation of heart and kidney will make people want to sleep at night, especially tired during the day and heavy legs. Insomnia caused by disharmony between heart and kidney is difficult to treat. In the past, a few doses of Suanzaoren Decoction and Wendan Decoction could be cured, but now the effect of using these drugs is not obvious. Because people's lives are much more complicated now than in ancient times, many people's insomnia is related to staying up late for a long time. Every night 1 1 to the morning 1 is the time when the gallbladder sleeps, and if people don't sleep at this time, their heart and kidneys will gradually fail, leading to insomnia.
Second, lack of qi and blood can also lead to insomnia. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that the middle energizer collects qi, and the middle energizer is our spleen and stomach. Where does human blood come from? In fact, blood comes from the stomach. The human body digests food through the stomach and converts the essence of food into blood. Blood is a kind of energy, representing a kind of kinetic energy, which is distributed everywhere for human needs. We often talk about replenishing blood. If we know Chinese medicine, we will know that blood comes from the stomach, so it may not be much use to take a lot of so-called tonics. The best way is to eat well. Stomach governs blood, so stomach deficiency will lead to blood deficiency. If you want to replenish blood, you must maintain our stomach meridian. If the blood is insufficient and the blood cannot be effectively transfused to the brain, the brain will suffer from insomnia due to ischemia.
Third, the stomach is not harmonious, and eating too much at night will lead to insomnia. When people breathe, gas is used for sleeping and digesting food. If you eat too much at night, your qi will be blocked by the middle energizer, and Yang Can can't lose to your brain, which will lead to insomnia. In ancient China, people paid attention to not eating after noon, that is, they only ate two meals a day, one at 90: 00 in the morning, one at 4: 00 or 5: 00 in the afternoon and no meals at night. Moreover, the law of life is also made at sunrise and rested at sunset, so people at that time rarely suffered from insomnia.
We should also master the principle that seven or eight minutes is enough for dinner. And it is best to go out for a walk after dinner or do some other exercise, which is very beneficial to enhance the quality of sleep at night.
Three tricks to help you sleep soundly all night.
1. Experts who soak feet before going to bed believe that feet are the starting and ending points of important meridians such as Yin San Meridian of Foot and Sanyang Meridian of Foot, and there are nearly 70 acupoints and reaction zones on the soles of feet closely related to various viscera. Soaking feet with hot water and stimulating these reaction areas can play a role in adjusting the function of zang-fu organs and enhancing physical fitness.
As far as insomnia is concerned, hot water can expand the blood circulation of the foot, promote the blood flow of the foot, reduce the muscle tension of the foot, and promote the blood flow from the head to the lower limbs, relatively reduce brain congestion, and make people feel relaxed and sleepy. At the same time of soaking feet, if you massage Yongquan point (the center of the sole is about 1/3 from the front toe), the curative effect on insomnia can be further enhanced. Because Yongquan point also has the functions of inducing deficiency fire to drop, calming, calming the nerves and lowering blood pressure. When doing foot massage, you should pay attention to:
1, foot bath time should not be too long, half an hour at most, especially for the elderly. It is not advisable to soak feet for half an hour before and after meals, otherwise it will affect the blood supply to the stomach and hinder the digestion and absorption of nutrients. It is best to drink a glass of water before soaking, which is beneficial to metabolism and body fluid supplement.
2, the water temperature should not be too high, generally 30-40 degrees Celsius is appropriate.
3. It is best to use a flat-bottomed wooden barrel with a certain height, and the water depth reaches the calf. 4. You can massage Yongquan point while soaking your feet, or massage alone after soaking your feet. 5. If some vinegar is added to the hot water (100— 150ml), the effect will be better.
6, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, frostbite feet, foot inflammation is not suitable.
Second, acupoint massage ensures that you sleep sounder. Modern people have a fast pace of life, great mental stress, irregular work and rest, and sleep therapy is often not good. It is difficult for light people to fall asleep, and it is difficult for heavy people to sleep all night, which seriously affects people's daily life. Bian Xiao teaches you a method of acupoint massage today to help you fall asleep again. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the brain is the house of Yuan God, so we should also pay attention to the supply of qi and blood to the head. In leisure time, such as resting or watching TV, you can comb your scalp several times with one hand. The direction starts from the forehead hairline and ends from the scalp to the neck along the hairline. In this way, the five fingers can separate the Du Meridian, Bladder Meridian and Gallbladder Meridian of the head, thus achieving the functions of calming the nerves, calming the liver and suppressing yang.
According to the attribution of meridians, you can press and rub the following points with your thumb:
Neiguan, Shenmen, Sanyinjiao. Neiguan point is located on the palm surface, 2 inches above the wrist transverse stripes (the same size, that is, the width of each thumb is 1 inch, the same below), between the palmar longus tendon and the flexor carpi radialis tendon. Shenmen point is located in the transverse striation of the metacarpal wrist and the radial depression of the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon.
Sanyinjiao is on the inner side of the calf, and the tibia can be felt 3 inches above the ankle tip, just behind the tibia. These three acupoints cooperate with each other and massage for 5 ~ 10 minutes every day, which can play a role in calming the nerves.
Third, homemade "Anshen Bunao porridge" takes 50 grams of fried Ziziphus jujuba seeds (available in Chinese medicine stores) and wraps them with gauze. After adding appropriate amount of water and decocting for 30 minutes, take out Ziziphus jujuba seeds. Add 200 grams of millet and 50 grams of lily to the cooked Ziziphus jujuba seeds, and then add a proper amount of water to make porridge. After the porridge is cooked, add 25 grams of brown sugar and take it 1 hour before going to bed. Nutritional analysis: Xiaomi, also known as Xiaomi, is sweet, salty and cold. Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica that Xiaomi "cooks porridge to benefit the abdomen, tonify deficiency and stimulate appetite".
Its function lies in "strengthening the spleen and stomach, and sleeping peacefully". Modern medicine believes that the degree of drowsiness after meals is often related to the content of tryptophan in food protein. Tryptophan can cause brain nerve cells to secrete serotonin, which makes people sleepy. It can temporarily inhibit brain thinking activities and make people feel sleepy. The more brain nerve cells secrete this substance, the more difficult it is for people. The content of tryptophan in millet is the highest among all grains, and the content of tryptophan per 100 grams of food is as high as 202 mg, which is incomparable to other grains.
In addition, millet is rich in digestible starch, which can make people feel full after eating, promote insulin secretion and further increase the content of tryptophan in the brain. Therefore, it is the best food for sleeping. Lily has the effect of clearing the heart and calming the nerves. Ziziphus jujuba seed is sweet and flat.
Has effect in nourishing live, calming heart, tranquilizing mind, and astringing sweat. It has a good effect on irritability, palpitation and insomnia.