Recently, Baidu Health released "2020 China People's Health Search Big Data", and through combing the search data and the click-through rate of related content, we can gain insight into the public's favorite preferences for health content in the past year. Through the data map, we can see that in the category of "main health problems of users of different ages", words such as mental stress and sleep problems frequently appear. It can be seen that insomnia has become the most important health problem for young people.
However, in this data map, there is another data worthy of our attention, and that is gastroenteritis.
Chinese medicine has said: "There are two symptoms of lying down: one is stomach disease and the other is lung disease. Stomach disease can't lie down, yin deficiency and evil combined with yin, fidgety ... "Once you don't pay attention to your diet, your spleen and stomach will fail and you won't sleep well at night.
The relationship between spleen and stomach and insomnia has long been recorded in Chinese medicine literature. On Su Wen's Inverse Tone: "In the sea of Yin and Yang, stomach pulse, stomach and six fu organs, qi also goes down, and Yang Ming goes against it, so he can't lie down." It is said that stomach disharmony leads to anxiety, which is also called anxiety. "
Starting from Neijing, later generations of doctors have more understanding and expansion of "disharmony of stomach leads to uneasiness", enriching its connotation from many angles of theory and reality. There is a stipulation in Treatise on Febrile Diseases that insomnia is caused by insufficient stomach yin. "Sun sickness, sweating after sweating, stomach dryness and restless sleep, people who want to drink water, drink less, stomach gas will be more harmonious ..."
In Ming Dynasty, Li Zhongzi regarded stomach disharmony as one of the causes of insomnia, and proposed that there were five reasons for insomnia, one of which was "stomach disharmony". Qingcheng Guo Peng's "Medical Mind Don't Sleep" puts forward the situation that food retention affects sleep. "People with disharmony and irritability will have bloating and pain, and this kind of food accumulation will also protect the soup ..."
With the development of China's economy and the improvement of people's living standards, the proportion of fat, sweet and delicious products in the diet has increased, coupled with irregular diet, overeating and lack of proper physical exercise, insomnia caused by spleen-stomach disharmony has become more and more common in clinic.
If a person has stomach trouble, when sleeping, there will be a situation that the stomach gas can't go down and the stomach gas is not smooth, so people can't sleep well.
In particular, many people like to eat and drink before going to bed. When we go to sleep, the tissues and organs of the body are in the stage of self-repair, and the functions of the viscera are in a state of slow movement. Eating before going to bed will not only increase the burden of tissues and organs, but also lead to poor blood supply and ischemia and hypoxia after sleep, which will lead to insomnia and dreaminess.
Chinese medicine believes that the spleen and stomach are "the foundation of the day after tomorrow", and the qi and blood of the human body are transformed from the spleen and stomach into food. If the spleen and stomach function normally, the human body can supplement nutrition from time to time. Overeating is cold from the inside, and gluttony is cold from the outside, all of which are bad habits that hurt spleen and yang. In the long run, in addition to insomnia, it will also cause a series of problems such as stomach pain, insomnia, bad breath and constipation.
Not only that, sleep is the premise of the smooth operation of various physiological functions of the human body, which can be described as "the foundation of the day after tomorrow". If you can't keep a good sleep, it's hard to say that you are healthy, and all the physiological functions of your body will gradually fall into disorder or damage. In severe cases, it may also cause some organic diseases or psychological diseases, which will have a serious impact on physical health.
In recent years, many foreign research reports have proved the risks associated with insomnia and diseases.
Sleep medicine: poor sleep quality will increase the risk of many chronic diseases.
The international journal Sleep Medicine published research reports from the University of Western Ontario and other institutions. Scientists selected more than 30,000 adults over 45 for analysis, and found that the quality and jet lag of sleep can lead to many chronic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, depression and cancer.
JAD: obstructive sleep apnea or increased risk of dementia in the population
In the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, scientists from Monash University and other institutions found that obstructive sleep apnea is directly related to high-risk dementia. Researcher Dr. Melinda Jackson pointed out that the increase of β -amyloid will accumulate on the wall of cerebral artery during insomnia, thus increasing the risk of dementia.
Nowadays, the shopping platform is very convenient, and many people think that it is the simplest and most effective way to buy products that help sleep and soothe the nerves.
According to the data of Ali Retail Platform, insomniacs expect to take some health care products to improve their sleep, and buy some personal care and massage equipment to relieve insomnia symptoms. Among them, the top five products in popularity index are: health care products for calming the nerves and nourishing the brain, pillows, foot patches, invigorating the spleen and tonifying the kidney, and head massage machines.
Even the sales of health products such as moxibustion, warm moxibustion instrument, compound essential oil, bath bag, fragrant incense, sleeping instrument and scrapping tablets are outstanding.
The causes of insomnia are varied and the mechanism is complicated. Not only is spleen-stomach disharmony, insomnia is also related to heart-kidney disharmony, but also anxiety and depression, bad mood, great psychological pressure and menopausal syndrome. Some sleep aid products can really soothe the nerves and promote sleep, but in the end they only play the role of assisting sleep and cannot completely treat insomnia.
Clinically, many patients with digestive system diseases have different degrees of insomnia. Western medicine diagnosed autonomic nervous dysfunction. Just giving sedative and hypnotic drugs can't fundamentally solve the problem, but it still depends on it in the long run.
However, Chinese medicine treatment of insomnia is not simple sleep, but individualized treatment based on syndrome differentiation. By adjusting the whole body qi and blood, restoring the balance of zang-fu organs and adjusting the emotional state, the effect of calming the nerves and helping sleep can be achieved, and the insomnia problem can be fundamentally improved.
Of course, in addition to treatment, patients should also strengthen physical exercise, enhance physical fitness, and participate in physical labor appropriately. Dinner should not be too hungry or full. You should eat light and digestible food, and don't drink strong tea or coffee before going to bed. Develop good sleeping habits, create a good sleeping environment, maintain a good mood, and treat sleep with a relaxed and natural attitude.
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