We are usually very busy at work, leaving early and returning late. On weekends, we are used to sleeping in and sometimes even getting up in the afternoon. But why do we feel more tired after sleeping on weekends? According to the viewpoint of Chinese medicine, sleeping for a long time hurts vitality, and the whole prescription is like this: watching blood for a long time hurts bones, walking for a long time hurts tendons, lying for a long time hurts gas, and sitting for a long time hurts meat. It's too late. Sleeping can replenish self-cultivation, but sleeping late will hurt your vitality.

When I used to work in a hotel, I took one day off every week, that is, Sunday. I usually go out early and come back late, and my work is very busy. On weekends, I want to sleep in and relax. I went to bed at eight o'clock on Saturday night and woke up after eight o'clock on Sunday morning. I want to sleep more, and continue to lie down until 10 in the morning. I feel bored all over, and my nose is stuffy and I feel weak.

In fact, this truth is very simple. Friends who have studied Chinese medicine know this truth. There is a prescription in Chinese medicine, that is to say, this thing is called long lying, which comes from Huangdi Neijing. Lying down for a long time will hurt the qi of the five internal organs. For example, if I sleep late for a long time, I will have cold symptoms such as nasal congestion, which means that my lungs are hurt, because my lungs govern breathing and my nose is enlightened. Then I slept for a long time, and my hands and feet were numb. This is because the spleen is in charge of meat, and the numbness of my hands and feet means that the vitality in the spleen has been hurt. When the numbness of hands and feet appeared, it also hurt the vitality of the heart. Because the heart dominates blood circulation, my hands and feet are numb when I lie in bed. At this time, the blood circulation of the heart has been blocked, and what is hurt is the vitality in the heart. If you continue to lie down, you will find your limbs cold.

So if you sleep for a long time on weekends, the whole person will be bored, which is also a sign of weakness of the five internal organs. On the contrary, if you don't get enough sleep for a long time, it will also hurt the five internal organs, and everything will be worse. It is the best state to get enough sleep for about eight hours every day.

Experience sharing of sleep health care

First, Chinese medicine health care theory

There is such a narrative in Huangdi Neijing: blood injury, tendon injury, long-term standing injury, long-term lying injury, and sedentary injury. People who lie in bed for a long time will have a stuffy nose, numb hands and feet, cold hands and feet, fidgety mood and listlessness. This time it was actually because lying down for a long time hurt the vitality of the five internal organs. After this happens, get up in time and wash your hands first.

Second, healthy sleep.

Health and sleep are closely related. If a person lacks sleep for a long time, it will cause damage to his five internal organs and even lead to premature aging. When I first moved here, my neighbor next door looked like he was in his thirties, with thick black hair and a red face. But because of family financial pressure, he went to drive a taxi, because he worked the night shift, just one morning after he worked the night shift for rent for three months. When he came back from the outside, his black hair turned completely white and his face was sallow. The whole person looks like he is in his sixties. This is a typical premature aging phenomenon caused by long-term lack of sleep.

Everything is too late, and long-term lack of sleep will lead to overwork and premature aging, but it is not enough to sleep late every day. I have a buddy. His brother is a fat house. He plays games at home all day, eats and sleeps. He is 1.7 meters tall and weighs 350 kg. He suffered from diabetes and hypertension at the age of 40 and died young.

So what is a healthy sleep? Healthy sleep is actually very simple. It is enough to sleep for eight hours every day.

Third, sleep and health.

What is the relationship between sleep and health? In fact, people want to sleep because all organs of the body need to rest. When people sleep, the metabolic function of internal organs will slow down, and the autonomic nervous system will adjust and repair all organs and cells of the body. In fact, sleeping is a state of self-repair of the body. It is precisely for this reason that if a person lacks sleep for a long time, it means that the viscera and organs can not rest and repair themselves for a long time, so there will be problems such as overwork and premature aging. Some people stay up late or drive tired, and even have hallucinations, trance and other serious delirious situations. These are all physical exhaustion caused by lack of sleep. Although long-term lack of sleep will harm the body, excessive sleep and lying-in will also harm the body. "Tao Te Ching" says that man governs the land, the land is governed by heaven, and the Tao is natural. The meaning is simple. Heaven and earth is a big universe, and human body is a small universe. The sky is black and white and people are awake. There are sun and moon in the sky, so people are awake during the day and sleep at night. The way to keep fit is to conform to nature.

Sleeping in bed for too long on weekends will lead to the loss of vitality of the five internal organs and poor qi movement, which will make you more tired. When you are lying in bed with a stuffy nose, cold hands and feet, numbness, irritability and boredom, you should get up in time, wash your face and eat, and exercise moderately to eliminate the loss of qi and blood caused by staying up late.