First, we have to talk about time. The so-called time is at night 1 1 to 1.
We all use the concept of hour now, that is, an hour is an hour. In traditional culture, two hours is considered as one hour. We have 24 hours a day, which is exactly 12 hour. So when does the day start? In traditional culture, it is considered as 1 1 p.m., that is, midnight. Which meridian is in charge at this time? In traditional Chinese medicine, it is considered as the gallbladder meridian in Huangdi's Neijing. So what season is it? In fact, seasonal duty is who will be on duty at this time, and it is bravery who is on duty.
In China culture, it attaches great importance to this moment, that is, when the sun was born, which is precisely the darkest moment when the spirit of the sun began to sprout. Therefore, there is a saying in the Yellow Emperor's Canon in ancient China, which says that the Eleven Zangs all depend on bravery. 1 1 What is Tibet? There is a saying in Chinese medicine that zang-fu organs refer to entities or organs, including heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney, and zang-fu organs refer to hollow organs, including gallbladder, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and bladder. In addition, the combination of the chest and abdominal cavity of the human body is called six fu-organs and triple energizer. What does courage depend on? Depending on the growth of bile. If the gallbladder grows out at this time, it is very important that other meridians and other organs of our body can grow out.
Some people will say that my gallbladder has been removed. Do I still have the courage? In China culture, there are three levels of emphasis: form, spirit and spirit. The so-called form should include what western medicine calls bravery, while China culture pays more attention to the following two points, one is qi, and the other is God. So what is qi? In fact, it refers to this meridian, and God refers to what it looks like after Qi is particularly sufficient.
There is a particularly interesting phenomenon in life. At eight or nine o'clock after dinner in the evening, we were a little sleepy, but 1 1 woke up, so now many people start working after 1 1. Some people want to eat 1 1 at night, so they have to look for food in the house. In fact, at this time, it is Yang that begins to sprout, not your own spirit. At night 1 1 point, vitality rises. Stop eating, it hurts. Therefore, it is a very important principle to sleep before 1 1, so as to slowly feed this vitality and sleep to nourish the yang.
Now many people say, well, now he and I understand this truth. I know I have to 1 1 sleep, but I can't sleep. Many people are suffering from insomnia now. They are full of energy at work during the day, but it is difficult to sleep at night even if they are tired. In Chinese medicine, what is insomnia related to? What should I do if I want to have a good sleep and summon up courage?
There are many theories about insomnia in TCM, of which two are the most important. One is the disharmony between heart and kidney. What about this? How do you explain it? Because our hearts are born on it. When we talked about the first lecture, we said that the south is fire, the south is fire, and the main scattered. Then, the north is kidney water, and he is healthy. What about this? If your heart keeps floating above, then the kidney water is calm below. What kind of symptoms will people show at this time? For example, my legs are heavy, but it is a virtual fire. Even if I slept, I couldn't sleep, dreaming all night. Some people are even ridiculous. They can get up at night and come back to have the dream he just had.
What caused this? In fact, this is because our heart fire does not intersect, and the kidney meridian has no power to restrain our heart fire, and our heart fire has been floating on it. So when this heart and kidney can't be handed over, we will have very bad insomnia and sleep. In fact, from the perspective of western medicine. The western doctor also believes that at 1 1, when this gallbladder meridian is in season, we will have a hormone that is the most vigorous, and that is melatonin.
Then this period of time is actually melatonin, which is very important for health, that is, it will make us fall into a deep sleep. Usually, in this deep sleep, when we secrete melatonin, our body will secrete another element. This is an antidiuretic hormone. In fact, for a normal person, you should not get up at night. If you get up at night, your hormone levels are abnormal. Therefore, Chinese medicine says that if the heart and kidney do not pay attention to this kind of insomnia, it will actually be difficult to treat it, but if it is treated from qi, it should be very effective. This disease is severe insomnia.
There is also a kind of insomnia that is very light. Even if the stomach is not harmonious, it will be restless. For example, if you eat a lot of food in your spleen and stomach at night, you should use all your qi to digest it.
In the traditional culture of China, there is a saying that you don't eat after noon. That is, we won't eat after noon. Why? Just after noon, after noon, the yang of heaven and earth began to decline, and so did the yang of human body. So, in fact, in the afternoon, anything we eat is difficult to digest. What are our living habits now? If you don't eat well in the morning, you usually deal with it at noon. That's why you eat this meal at night. It's delicious, but it's not healthy. If you eat a lot at night, your qi will be trapped in this spleen and stomach and consume food.
Eat well in the morning, eat well at noon and eat less at night, which is a common saying in China. But in life, many people often skip meals in the morning, deal with them at noon and have a violent meal at night. It's hard to be calm in bed after severe friction. Therefore, people who are restless because of stomach disharmony need to shut up and eat less at night if they want to solve insomnia.
Gallbladder involves a concept of germinal growth, that is, when the sun rises, it is midnight. It's a winter day. We often say that this is a sunny day from the winter solstice, and this period is very important. What to eat on the solstice in winter is very particular. Generally speaking, the day before the winter solstice is actually the heaviest time in Yin Qi, so some old Chinese doctors are very particular about eating mutton soup and mutton on this day; Another school said that they just ate duck soup instead of mutton. Why? Ducks are usually in water. First, all the newborn ducks in Yiyang know that the yang rises from the water, so some old Chinese doctors say they must eat ducks.
In fact, there is no point in arguing. Just to make it clear, because the yin has reached its peak before the winter solstice, it is necessary to eat yang. Mutton promotes hair growth, and the winter solstice is just noon, so you can eat mutton in the morning and duck in the afternoon. No one should fight, so you can eat duck soup or mutton on the solstice of winter. China culture is very particular about eating ducks and roast ducks. The duck is cold, but the chicken can't be roasted, because the chicken is fire and the roast chicken is wrong. In China culture, eating chicken can only be stewed, otherwise it goes against its nature. People live by nature, so do chickens and ducks. Why not follow their nature? Keeping this alive and getting things done smoothly is called "a loss of spring, a loss of Baidu". In spring, hair care is very important for your life, and it is also important to have a day's sleep.
The mechanism by which the gallbladder determines hair growth, such as gray sideburns, is actually that vitality is gradually weakening. This is the problem of gallbladder meridian. For example, migraine, the left side is different from the right side, the left side is related to liver blood, and the right side is related to lung meridian, both of which involve gallbladder meridian problems; You have white hair in the back of your head and white hair in the front. The long white hair in front is the stomach meridian, which is a phenomenon of stomach qi failure. It is the decline of stomach qi, and forehead pain is also a kind of pain of stomach disease. To treat different headaches, in fact, really good Chinese medicine treats them according to the symptoms, not just asking you where it hurts. When does it hurt? This integrates the problem. If you just say that I have a headache in front of me, it's a stomachache, and I have to ask you when it hurts. When will it hurt? I know who is on duty at this time. Just like management, it is very important for us to take good care of the people on duty at this time.
Why is the zodiac "rat" the leader? Why is the first animal of the zodiac a "mouse"? Why not use an elephant? The mouse is a child. At this time, it is courageous and weak, just like a little mouse. Besides, the mouse is Nocturnal Animals. Small as it is, it is very active. This is a little sunshine. It can't be very big, but it must keep something very dynamic in it. This is equivalent to the sharpest point of white fish in Taiji diagram, which is called the fire of shaoyang. That "fire" is a fundamental thing of all your yang. The smaller you are, the more you need to raise it. Just like we raise children, we should raise them when we are young and leave them alone when we are old. This is why the Chinese zodiac is headed by rats.
The gallbladder meridian is related to gallbladder, which is called "the official of Zhong Zheng" in Neijing, just like an upright official who distinguishes right from wrong. Why does gallbladder have such a title? There is also a very important point in the Classic of Courage that courage dominates decision, that is, when we can't make a decision, what is an interesting thing we often have? We will scratch our heads. Just scratching, scratching, we must remember that this part is the gallbladder meridian. When you scratch your head, when this question is meaningless, you may scratch your head. On the one hand, you are afraid of fire. At this time, you will feel that this place is itchy, and then scratch it. You just need this part of your brain. This position of the head is the gallbladder meridian. Scratching your head is not tickling, it's tickling your guts.
Then, there may be another one, that is, when I can't get up and make up my mind, you have to scratch this place to stimulate the growth of the gallbladder. So this aspect of qi refers to the way gallbladder works and its function. And then it's divine. What does the level of God mean? God's level is that if you are bold enough, you will be a bit like something, just like the oil lamp you used to light. If you are particularly oily, your light is great, and that light is God. This is God's problem. Don't think cholecystectomy is cholecystectomy. Actually, our gallbladder is still there.
Including many interesting movements in our daily life, for example, if you are tired from working in the office, you will habitually pull up, arms, legs, feet, etc., then you are pulling on both sides of the human body. It is the gallbladder meridian. Therefore, this is all yawning, and yawning is also stretching our spleen and stomach qi, stomach qi and gallbladder meridian.
According to medical observation and my experience, a person really falls asleep for only two hours at most, and the rest is a waste of time, lying on a pillow dreaming, and no one does not dream. As for waking up and not dreaming, it's because I forgot.
Usually two hours' sleep alone is enough. Why do some people sleep for seven or eight hours? That's your habit of lying in bed with a pillow to rest. We don't need that long sleep time, especially those who meditate and do kung fu know that as long as you close your eyes and really fall asleep for three minutes at noon, it is equivalent to sleeping for two hours, but you should make good use of the noon time. At night, you must fall asleep in front of positrons. Five minutes equals six hours.
At this time, I learned a lot, with the laws of the universe, the laws of the earth, and the principles of the Book of Changes, Yin and Yang. And you will feel a force just coming down from under the heart and merging with the strength of the abdomen (kidney). The so-called "fire and water ji ji", all of a sudden, you get enough sleep and are full of energy.
Therefore, people who have insomnia or really want to stay up late at night must sleep even for 20 minutes at noon. If they can't sleep, they should train themselves to sleep.
You don't want to sleep after about 12: 30, which is bad. What's more, at dawn, at four or five o'clock, at five or six o'clock, you are sleepy and want to sleep. If you sleep at this time, you will be sleepy all day.
Therefore, people who want to stay up late, even if there is something important, should put it down and sleep for half an hour. If they want to sleep, don't sleep. The spirit of that day is enough.
However, people who suffer from insomnia can't sleep after 12, tossing and turning in bed. As a result, they fall asleep at dawn and get dizzy the next afternoon, so you will suffer from insomnia and lack of sleep. Actually, you have no experience.
Sleep and health [reprint]
First of all, the rules of sleep
During the Warring States Period, Wen Zhi, a famous doctor, said to Qi Weiwang, "My way of keeping in good health is to put sleep first. People and animals can only grow up by sleeping, which helps the spleen and stomach digest food. So sleep is the first supplement to health. If people don't sleep at night, it's hard to recover after a hundred days of loss. "
The effective sleep time is 265438+ 0 pm to 5 am. People are animals and belong to the same creature as plants. During the day (5: 00 a.m. to 2 1 p.m.), they generate energy, and at night (2 1 p.m. to 5: 00 a.m.), they start cell division and transform energy into new cells. This is the time for human cells to recuperate and innovate, and it is also the time for people and the earth to deviate from the sun. Yin governs quietness, which is a good time for people to sleep. Only by resting at this time can they have a good state of mind and body. This is the same reason that babies who sleep more gain weight quickly and children who love to sleep are stunted.
Sleep is a major function of health preservation, that is, replacing rotten cells with a large number of healthy cells. If you can't sleep all night, you can't replace new cells. If one million cells die during the day and only 500,000 cells are recovered in one night, then your body will lose. Over time, people will chaff, just like chaff radish. Why are there centenarians in the world? Because they go to bed on time at 2 1 every night.
Plants absorb the energy of sunlight and grow at night, so you can hear the sound of jointing of rural crops at night. People and plants are both creatures, and the cycle of cell division is roughly the same. If you miss the good opportunity to sleep at night, the regeneration of cells will be far behind the death, and people will get old or get sick prematurely. If people want to let nature take its course, they must follow the sun, that is, they will wake up and sleep. Man is as small as dust in front of the sun. "Anti-sun" is a foolish choice. Sooner or later, they will be pushed down by the great gravity of the sun. This is an objective fact.
In real life, many people have difficulty falling asleep and poor sleep quality. Poor sleep is a comprehensive problem, such as excessive anger and vigilance against sleep; Excessive stomach fire and restless sleep; Insufficient liver yin, tired from sleep.
Second, sleep and disease.
Modern living habits and lifestyles have brought many negative effects on people's health, resulting in "four major diseases": fruit disease, refrigerator disease, TV computer disease and staying up late disease. The liver has a characteristic: lying down to return blood and sitting up to supply blood.
Midnight (23: 00- 1: 00), in fact, 23 o'clock is the beginning of a new day, not 0 o'clock, which is our misunderstanding. The gallbladder family, the gallbladder meridian opens at 23 o'clock. Not sleeping will hurt your gallbladder. Because eleven zang-fu organs depend on gallbladder, your gallbladder is weak, your whole body's viscera function declines, your metabolism and immunity decline one after another, and your body's function is greatly reduced. Your gallbladder supports the central nervous system and is prone to various mental diseases, such as depression, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and fidgeting. Bile should be replaced when the gallbladder is getting stronger and stronger. Bile replacement is unfavorable if people don't lie down. If it is too thick to crystallize into stones, you will get gallstones after a long time. Cholecystectomy will be timid, and the whole body immunity will drop by more than 50%, so it can't be removed. We should use its great potential to melt it.
When ugly, the liver meridian is the most prosperous, and when ugly (1: 00-3: 00), the liver can't eliminate toxic substances and produce fresh blood. Because of the unfavorable blood storage, his face is blue, and he is prone to various liver diseases for a long time. At present, some people's livers are not very good, especially in Europe, where there is a big three-yang or a small three-yang on average, mostly because they don't sleep after giving birth, which violates the laws of nature. Hepatitis A is easy to treat, but hepatitis B is difficult to treat. Hepatitis B virus carriers are too weak because they often don't sleep at night, indicating that the order is too chaotic and the virus has reached the cells. That is to say, the virus of hepatitis B has reached the cell, but now it has no ability to cause hepatitis. Hepatitis forms when the human body is weakest, and hepatitis B means 40%-60% cirrhosis in the future. Smart people should understand the relationship between heaven, earth and people, and those who are not smart should be eliminated.
Liver governing the release of qi can lead to adverse liver qi, stagnation of liver qi, irritability, headache, dizziness, eye pain, tinnitus, deafness, chest pain, irregular menstruation and constipation in women, and can also lead to insufficient rise of liver qi. People will be tired, weak waist and knees, dizzy, insomnia, fright, trance, and even faint in the street.
The liver has the functions of storing blood and regulating blood. If you don't sleep when you die, it will cause liver blood deficiency, and it will also cause bleeding symptoms such as vomiting blood, nosebleeds, subcutaneous bleeding, gingival bleeding, fundus bleeding and ear bleeding.
The liver begins to understand the purpose, and if it dies, it will not sleep, which will easily lead to liver qi deficiency, and then there will be symptoms such as blurred vision, presbyopia, night blindness, photophobia, tears in the wind, and eye diseases such as glaucoma, cataract, fundus arteriosclerosis and retinopathy.
The main muscle of the liver is in its claws. If you don't sleep after it, it will cause liver blood deficiency, which will cause muscle pain, numbness, difficulty in flexion and extension, spasm and convulsion, and easily lead to diseases such as onychomycosis, calcium deficiency, patella softening, epilepsy and osteoporosis.
Liver and heart, not sleeping in the afterlife, can cause liver blood deficiency's disease. Because the heart governs the whole body blood, the liver has the function of storing and regulating blood, which will lead to insufficient blood supply to the heart, palpitation and other symptoms, and serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as heart disease and hypertension.
If the liver and spleen don't sleep in the afterlife, it will cause disharmony between liver and stomach. Because the liver helps the digestion of the spleen and stomach, because the liver qi is too weak to help the digestion of the spleen and stomach, and the digestive function of the spleen and stomach is not good, which is characterized by thick tongue coating, which will cause the collapse of the middle qi for a long time.
Liver and lungs, when they die, don't sleep, can't nourish yin and subdue yang, and liver yin deficiency leads to excessive liver fire and burning the lungs, with symptoms such as dry cough, cough, expectoration and blood, which easily leads to various skin diseases such as psoriasis.
Liver and kidney will die if they don't sleep, and liver deficiency will lead to kidney deficiency. Because liver and kidney are homologous, it is easy to cause reproductive system diseases, infertility, bone diseases, dental diseases, hair loss, diabetes, renal failure and other diseases.
Third, the method of sleep
Traffic rules-if you don't understand these rules, you are prone to accidents. For example, from 23: 00 to 3: 00 in the morning, when the gallbladder and liver meridians are most active, the liver and gallbladder need to return blood, "lie down and return blood, and start bleeding." If you lie down around 22 o'clock every night and don't whisper, you will fall asleep by 23 o'clock. Blood began to return to the liver and gallbladder, and toxic blood was filtered out to produce fresh blood. By the age of 100, there are no gallstones, hepatitis and cysts. If you stay up until 1 every day, the liver can't return blood, toxic blood can't be discharged, fresh blood can't be born, and bile can't be exchanged, then these people are prone to gallstones, cysts, big three yang and small three yang.
In Europe, there is one hepatitis virus carrier for every four people, which is called not knowing the rules. It's best not to talk for half an hour before going to bed, let alone at bedtime. If you talk, your lungs will move, and then your heart will move again. People get excited easily, so it is difficult to fall asleep.
2 1: 00-23: 00 is the sea time. At sea, the triple energizer is abundant, and the triple energizer is connected with the pulse. When you fall asleep in the sea, all your pulses are nourished, so centenarians should fall asleep before 2 1: 00 (sea time). Women should go to bed early if they want to stay beautiful for a long time.
Close the window when sleeping, and don't turn on the fan and air conditioner. Many people will get sick. Because the blood circulation is slow and the body temperature drops during sleep, the body will form a positive layer on the body surface. This positive layer makes people call it "ghosts don't invade." What do you mean? People with full yang don't have nightmares. It is this Yang who has the upper hand. Turning on the air conditioner is different from turning on the fan. Open the window, and the wind will get into the ribs. If you turn on the air conditioner, there will be wind, and the wind will get into the ribs. When I get up in the morning, my body turns yellow, my face turns yellow, the muscles at the back of my neck become stiff and my joints ache. Some people even start to have a fever. This is why the cold attacks the bones and muscles. This is also a gas injury. At night, it is best not to open the window, air conditioner or fan, and even close the door. If it is hot, it will be less effective if you open the door and close the window, but he will not be tired and his back will be stiff when he gets up the next morning.
Someone turned on the air conditioner in the living room and opened the door of the bedroom, which is similar to sleeping directly with the air conditioner on. After turning on the air conditioner, the chill of the air conditioner has reached the bone, and my heart is cold. Where is the heart, the heart is in the brain, the brain is the ocean of bone marrow, and there is cold in the bone marrow. It must be cold in my heart. What should I do? When can I make up my mind that when my heart gets cold, my fever will go away and my cold will go out?
Going to bed as early as possible and going to bed late will hurt the yang, which will inevitably lead to fatigue and fatigue the next day. Close the window, don't turn on the air conditioner and electric fan, and protect the sun.
Liver and gallbladder are in the lower energizer. If there is something wrong with his stomach, he will feel uneasy about sleeping. One is stomach cold. If this person has insufficient stomach yang and drinks too much green tea, he will feel cold in his stomach. When the stomach is cold, people can't sleep well, or eat too much sediment, and their stomachs are faint and cold, so they must not sleep well.
There is also stomach heat, that is, the hot air comes up, and the breath in the mouth is hot air. In this case, I can't sleep well; There is also a dry stomach, dry mouth, feeling very dry in the stomach;
There is also a thick stomach, strong smell and thick stomach. In this case, people eat this thick and greasy taste. Some people eat seafood, fish and stewed chicken, which is delicious. If they eat too much, they can't be used for many purposes. These things should be diluted internally, but not diluted. The smell in it is too strong, so this one can't sleep well.
Abdominal distension again, abdominal distension, unable to sleep, tossing and turning; Another is the lack of stomach gas, cold sweat, and I can't sleep well anywhere. These reasons may cause gastrointestinal discomfort, so you can't sleep well if you have gastrointestinal discomfort.
Warm limbs when sleeping, because limbs are the foundation of yang, which is known to all. If the limbs are not warm, it must be kidney yang deficiency. Before going to bed, cover your hands and feet, your navel and the life gate behind you.