How long should we rest? 6 hours, 8 hours or 10 hour? China has a saying "Let nature take its course". What is adequate sleep? According to our Chinese medicine, you don't feel tired at all after waking up, and you are very comfortable and relaxed. This is an adequate sleep. What is bad sleep? Insomnia or nightmares, or always sleeping half awake, or sleeping very lightly, can wake up when a needle falls to the ground, which is lack of sleep. So, I hope everyone can look at their own reasons, what caused your poor sleep, and analyze it.
There is a saying in China that there are twelve zodiac signs, and each of us is born with our own zodiac sign. Everyone knows the zodiac, but if I ask you what the zodiac has to do with every hour, do you know?
The best time for humans to fall asleep is 23 o'clock. Why is 23 o'clock at night the best time for human beings to sleep? The time of 23 o'clock was not put forward by me, but by our grandfather of traditional Chinese medicine. To be precise, the concept of "meridian stream" was put forward. So many friends have to ask again, what is "meridian stream"?
"Meridian Liu Zhu" is a law discovered by the sages of traditional Chinese medicine and a natural law revealed through the human body. See Illustration 8: Meridian Liu Zhu. That is, every day 12 hours corresponds to the human body 12 meridians. Because time is changing, so different meridians have ups and downs at different times, with their own changing rules, so keeping healthy according to meridian flow can get twice the result with half the effort!
What's the name of western medicine? It is called the biological clock. Now that we have a general understanding of the time represented by 12 hour, how should we keep in good health at different times?
First of all, talk about childhood. We all know that it is from 23: 00 pm to morning 1. During this period, bile metabolism is the most vigorous. There is a saying in Huangdi Neijing: "All the 11 Zangs take courage." Why rely on courage?
In fact, these things have vivid memory methods, otherwise our ancestors were very smart and would have drawn them for us! Let's see, what was the zodiac when I was a child? It's a mouse. Why a mouse and not other animals? Judging from the appearance of the mouse, it is ugly, not big, and not fierce. Why did our ancestors put the mouse at the front of the zodiac? In fact, it can be completely explained by combining our TCM health preservation theory.
According to Chinese medicine, childhood is the most active time for bravery, but this time is the darkest time of the day; Our yang has just sprouted, which is what Chinese medicine calls "the fire of shaoyang" Everyone knows the idiom "as timid as a mouse", which probably means this. At this time, we should also go to bed, which is the most precious time for our health.
After midnight, it will be ugly, that is, 1 until 3 am. At this time, our "liver" is the most active time. The ancients believed that the liver was the main policy and the liver qi was upward. If the lights go up and don't go down, there will be problems. Then apply this viewpoint to "liver" qi. If a person's liver is angry and the liver qi only rises but does not fall, then this person's health will have a big problem. The zodiac sign for a clown is a cow. When we describe a person with a big temper, we often use the word "stubbornness", which is very appropriate here.
So what is another manifestation of anger? It's just that my mouth is thirsty Nowadays, many people are not thirsty after chatting for a day. What should I do at this time of day? There is a water bottle on the bedside table, so now it is formed that he drinks water in the first half of the night and goes to the toilet in the second half. Do you think he can sleep tonight? So I got up tired the next day, just like I didn't sleep. That's why.
So in front of me, I advocate everyone to be vegetarian at night, that's why! Eating more vegetarian food such as raw mixed vegetables for dinner is just to reduce internal heat and make our bodies reach a balance. According to the viewpoint of traditional Chinese medicine, human organs are all related, and a certain balance should be maintained.
After talking about cows, it's time to talk about tigers, that is, Yin Shi, from 3 am to 5 am. This time is when the lungs are active, that is, when the qi and blood of our body are redistributed again. At this time, we should be in deep sleep, because the redistribution of qi and blood can only be completed in deep sleep. Everyone who stays up late knows that it is ok to stay up until 1 o'clock and 2 o'clock, but it is difficult to stay up until 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock, which is why the body is redistributing qi and blood. Therefore, when it is time to sleep, people have to sleep. Sleeping is not as simple as everyone thinks. In fact, the human body is undergoing a very complicated and huge project.
From 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock, the large intestine moves. The old saying describes this period as "Tianmen Open". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the large intestine and lung are exterior and interior, the large intestine is exterior and the lung is interior. The lungs will make a lot of fresh blood fill the whole body, and then promote the large intestine meridian to enter an excited state, complete the process of absorbing water and nutrition in food, and then discharge the dregs. There is a disease related to this time called "five diarrhea", which must be pulled out and discharged at this point, called five diarrhea.
Next it's the dragon's turn. We all know it's 7: 00 to 9: 00. At this point, it's time for us to have breakfast. At this time, the qi and blood in our bodies have risen. At dawn, the sun also rises, and it is also time for us to say that the sun is full. But we know that Chinese medicine pays attention to balance, and when the yang is full, we have to use yin to balance.
We know that food belongs to yin, so we must have breakfast at this time. Besides being hungry at this time, the most important thing is that we need a balance between yin and yang. Moreover, you must eat more abundantly at this time. There is a saying that breakfast should be as rich as the emperor! More importantly, no matter how much you eat for breakfast, you won't get fat. Because at 9 o'clock, the spleen begins to transport, and the spleen can turn food into Xue Jing and input it into human viscera. Spleen governs the transport and transformation of blood. Spleen is the general dispatcher of human digestion, absorption and excretion, and also the president of human blood.
At noon, that is, 1 1 to 1, we should care about our hearts at this time. The medical book records: "The heart governs the gods, and it is enlightened by the tongue, and its glory is in the face." Heart and blood circulation, nourishing spirit, benefiting qi and nourishing tendons. If people can take a nap at noon, it will be of great benefit to nourishing the heart, so that they will be full of energy in the afternoon and evening. We see that the corresponding zodiac sign at noon is horse. Do horses run fast by blood flow? Is blood flow pumped out by the heart? So at this time, we should have a lunch break and have a rest.
This hour is also a period of frequent heart attacks. This kind of heart disease patients are mostly people with spleen and stomach disharmony. What are the characteristics of such people? They are all accompanied by diarrhea, which is called enteritis in western medicine and diarrhea of spleen and cold in Chinese medicine. This kind of people are mostly people with unformed stools, and they get sick at this time.
13 to 15 is out of date, which is the working time of small intestine. There is an idiom in China called "narrow path". Have you seen it? What do sheep eat and grow up? Grass! So sheep won't get heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. Isn't the small intestine a place to absorb nutrients? Now we all eat too much meat! Therefore, from the perspective of western medicine, the small intestine is the place where protein is absorbed, so everyone must try to eat well at noon and eat a high-protein diet.
15 to 17, which is the application time and the working time of bladder. What is the end of the sheep? It is a monkey. What role does the bladder play in the human body? Is to drain water. Why does this person drink more water when he has a fever? Water takes heat outside and discharges it through the bladder. Drink more here and row more there. Is this heat coming down slowly? So the fever just went away!
There is a low-grade fever at 4 pm, which is bladder fever. The person with this disease must have difficulty urinating, so he has a low fever. If he doesn't urinate all the time, he will be called as having a high fever. Therefore, when we treat this disease, we will treat the bladder, open the bladder meridian, and the urine pain will soon be gone, and the low fever will be gone. That monkey jumped up and down, full of energy!
From 17 to 19 is a unitary time, which is the time of kidney metabolism. So what is a kidney? The monkey is finished. What? When a chicken is a chicken, it is the time for kidney metabolism. Then I said earlier, "salty nourishes the kidney, too salty hurts the kidney." We all ate high-salt food at night and ruined our kidneys. It's no problem to eat salty food at noon in the morning, but it must be light at night.
Then why do you think of the unitary chicken in the zodiac? What do chickens eat besides food? Stone. Why does it eat stones? In modern medicine, it is to supplement calcium. Everyone knows that bone pain needs calcium supplementation, and kidney deficiency needs calcium supplementation. You see, this calcium is related to both Chinese and western medicine! Why do chickens eat stones? It lays eggs every day. Where do eggshells come from? Don't you just eat stones? It doesn't eat stones. Look at the eggs laid by chickens. The shells are all soft. Chickens eat stones to make a lot of calcium. Then, as a person, it is necessary to tonify the kidney. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, black beans are used to tonify the kidney; In terms of nutrition, calcium tonifies the kidney and strengthens the bones. Why does the bone have a headache, just eat calcium? That's the truth.
19 point, 2 1 point, pericardium meridian is at work. What comes after the chicken? It is a dog. What do dogs do? Protect your home and your master. What is the pericardium for? Protect the heart. If you want myocardial ischemia, there is something wrong with your heart. It protects the heart, so ancestors made it into a dog to protect its owner. The pericardium is the epicardium, which is accompanied by the passage of qi and blood. Evil is unbearable, which can cause heart injury. The pericardium is the protective tissue of the heart and the channel of qi and blood. Pericardium is vigorous in a short time, which can remove the evil outside the heart and make the heart in a good state. This is the time when heart disease is easy to occur. Some people in the society attribute it to eating too much, thinking that it is a surviving heart disease, but in fact it is misunderstood!
Then the last one is Hai Zhu, and the triple energizer meridian works at 2 1-23:00. The triple energizer is called thoracic cavity, abdominal cavity, upper abdomen and lower abdomen according to anatomical definition, and it is called triple energizer in traditional Chinese medicine. Why compare this triple energizer to a pig? Pigs have to sleep when they are full. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the triple energizer is the largest of the six fu organs, which has the functions of controlling qi movement and dredging waterways. Triple energizer is connected with pulse. If people sleep in the sea, the pulse can be adjusted, which is very beneficial to the body. Therefore, our ancestors vividly told us with sea pigs that we should study like pigs at this time and try to arrange to start sleeping.
Whether these statements are the wisdom of the ancients or the persistence of future generations, we don't want to delve into them. As long as I can let my friends know about meridians and how to keep in good health through the correspondence of these images, my goal will be achieved!
So as you can see, everything handed down by our ancestors is reasonable. I hope that after you understand, you must do what your ancestors meant and don't violate these laws! If you violate it, you will be punished. In fact, not only Chinese medicine pays attention to balance, but every moment around us is inseparable from balance. Interpersonal relationships should be balanced, work and life should be balanced, and the ecological environment should be balanced.
But now many jobs make it impossible for us to work and live normally according to the requirements of meridian stream, such as night shift. How should it be adjusted? Here I will give you a brief analysis. There are two kinds of night shifts, one is manual work and the other is mental work. If you are doing manual work, such as building roads and moving things, you can add some meat to replenish your strength in the middle of the night. If you do mental work, for example, you are on duty and guarding the door. Writing articles and playing computer are all mental work. What do you eat? All kinds of vegetables. Try not to eat meat, you can eat two bites, mainly vegetables, and eat more raw vegetables. If you are busy at work, use your spare time for a day or two to adjust your body and return to normal life.