Longan: Sweet and warm, it has the effects of nourishing the heart and brain, nourishing blood and calming the nerves. Drinking longan tea or taking longan white sugar soup before going to bed is conducive to improving sleep.
Fruit: Fruit contains fructose, malic acid and rich fragrance, which can induce the body to produce a series of reactions and produce serotonin, thus helping to fall asleep.
Lotus seed: Lotus seed tastes astringent and flat, while lotus heart tastes bitter and cold, all of which have the effect of keeping healthy and calming the nerves. The Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine claims that it can cure "sleepless nights and many dreams". Studies have shown that lotus seeds contain liensinine, rutin and other ingredients, which have a sedative effect, can promote the secretion of insulin by the pancreas and make people fall asleep. Before going to bed, you can fry lotus seeds with water and take them with a little salt. Or boiled lotus seeds with sugar.
Mulberry: its taste is sweet and cold, it can nourish blood and nourish yin, and tonify liver and kidney. "Life Taste Diet Spectrum" contains "listening to mulberry, improving eyesight, calming nerves and calming the mind". It is often used to treat dizziness and insomnia caused by yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity. Take mulberries and decoct them in water to get juice. Boil it with ceramic pot into a paste, add a little honey, mix well and store it, each time 1 ~ 2 spoonfuls, and take it with warm water.
Sunflower seed: contains a variety of amino acids and vitamins, which can regulate the metabolism of brain cells and improve the inhibition ability of brain cells. Eating sunflower seeds before going to bed can promote the secretion of digestive juice, which is beneficial to digestion, sedation and sleep.
Walnut: Sweet and warm, it is a good nourishing food, which can treat neurasthenia, forgetfulness, insomnia and dreaminess. Take japonica rice, walnut kernel and black sesame, simmer into porridge and eat it with sugar before going to bed.
Jujube: warm in nature, sweet in taste, red in color and moist in meat. It has the effects of nourishing the five internal organs, benefiting the spleen and stomach, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, and has obvious curative effect on dreaminess, insomnia and mental trance caused by deficiency of qi and blood. Take red dates, remove the core, add water to boil, add rock sugar and donkey-hide gelatin, and simmer to a paste. Take 1 ~ 2 spoonfuls before going to bed.
Honey: It has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating qi, calming the five internal organs, harmonizing various medicines and relieving various poisons. Has obvious curative effect on insomnia patients. Take 50 grams of honey every night before going to bed, 1 cup, and take it with warm water.
Milk: It is an ideal tonic. Drinking 1 cup before going to bed can make people fall asleep, especially the elderly.