As soon as the yang enters the yin meridian, people want to sleep. Wei Qi walked through the Yin Meridian. When he left the Yin Meridian, people would wake up. This is the explanation of sleep mechanism by Chinese medicine.
Why do people suffer from insomnia? Simply put, there are three reasons.
In the past, a few doses of Suanzaoren Decoction and Wendan Decoction could be cured, but now the effect of using these drugs is not obvious. Because people's lives are much more complicated now than in ancient times, many people's insomnia is related to staying up late for a long time. Every night 1 1 to the morning 1 is the time when the gallbladder sleeps, and if people don't sleep at this time, their heart and kidneys will gradually fail, leading to insomnia.
Deficiency of qi and blood can also lead to insomnia. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that the middle energizer collects qi, and the middle energizer is our spleen and stomach. Where does human blood come from? In fact, blood comes from the stomach. The human body digests food through the stomach and converts the essence of food into blood.
Blood is a kind of energy, representing a kind of kinetic energy, which is distributed everywhere for human needs. We often talk about replenishing blood. If we know Chinese medicine, we will know that blood comes from the stomach, so it may not be much use to take a lot of so-called tonics. The best way is to eat well.
Stomach governs blood, so stomach deficiency will lead to blood deficiency. If you want to replenish blood, you must maintain our stomach meridian. If the blood is insufficient and cannot be effectively transfused to the brain, the brain will suffer from insomnia due to ischemia.
If you eat too much at night, it will also cause insomnia. When people breathe, gas is used for sleeping and digesting food. If you eat too much at night, your qi will be blocked by the middle energizer, and Yang Can can't lose to your brain, which will lead to insomnia.
In ancient China, people paid attention to not eating after noon, that is, they only ate two meals a day, one at 90: 00 in the morning, one at 4: 00 or 5: 00 in the afternoon and no meals at night.
Moreover, the law of life is also made at sunrise and rested at sunset, so people at that time rarely suffered from insomnia. We should also master the principle that seven or eight minutes is enough for dinner. And it is best to go out for a walk after dinner or do some other exercise, which is very beneficial to enhance the quality of sleep at night.
Three tricks to help you sleep soundly all night.
According to Chinese medicine, the foot is the starting and ending point of the important meridians such as the Yin San Meridian of Foot and the Sanyang Meridian of Foot, and there are nearly 70 acupoints and reaction zones in the sole of the foot closely related to the viscera. Soaking feet with hot water and stimulating these reaction areas can play a role in adjusting the function of zang-fu organs and enhancing physical fitness.
As far as insomnia is concerned, hot water can expand the blood circulation of the foot, promote the blood flow of the foot, reduce the muscle tension of the foot, and promote the blood flow from the head to the lower limbs, relatively reduce brain congestion, and make people feel relaxed and sleepy.
At the same time of soaking feet, if you massage Yongquan point (the center of the sole is about 1/3 from the front toe), the curative effect on insomnia can be further enhanced. Because Yongquan point also has the functions of inducing deficiency fire to drop, calming, calming the nerves and lowering blood pressure.
1, foot bath time should not be too long, half an hour at most, especially for the elderly. It is not advisable to soak feet for half an hour before and after meals, otherwise it will affect the blood supply to the stomach and hinder the digestion and absorption of nutrients. It is best to drink a glass of water before soaking, which is beneficial to metabolism and body fluid supplement.
2, the water temperature should not be too high, generally 30-40 degrees Celsius is appropriate.
3. It is best to use a flat-bottomed wooden barrel with a certain height, and the water depth reaches the calf.
4. You can massage Yongquan point while soaking your feet, or massage alone after soaking your feet.
5. If some vinegar is added to the hot water (100— 150 ml), the effect will be better.
6, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, frostbite feet, foot inflammation is not suitable.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the brain is the house of Yuan God, so we should also pay attention to the supply of qi and blood to the head. In leisure time, such as resting or watching TV, you can comb your scalp several times with one hand. The direction starts from the forehead hairline and ends from the scalp to the neck along the hairline.
In this way, the five fingers can separate the Du Meridian, Bladder Meridian and Gallbladder Meridian of the head, thus achieving the functions of calming the nerves, calming the liver and suppressing yang.
According to the attribution of meridians, you can press and rub the following points with your thumb: Neiguan, Shenmen and Sanyinjiao. Neiguan point is located on the palm surface, 2 inches above the wrist transverse stripes (the same size, that is, the width of each thumb is 1 inch, the same below), between the palmar longus tendon and the flexor carpi radialis tendon.
Shenmen point is located in the transverse striation of the metacarpal wrist and the radial depression of the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon. Sanyinjiao is on the inner side of the calf, and the tibia can be felt 3 inches above the ankle tip, just behind the tibia. These three acupoints cooperate with each other and massage for 5 ~ 10 minutes every day, which can play a role in calming the nerves.
The main cause of disharmony between heart and kidney is middle energizer block, which leads to the failure of upper energizer to descend, leading to the floating of deficiency fire, and symptoms such as sores, acne and ulcers in the mouth and tongue.
If the boiled water does not come, the kidney water will be too cold, and there will be symptoms such as long urination, frequent nighttime, chills, and tepid limbs. Because fire and water can't be auspicious, it causes insomnia. And conditioning is mainly to get through the middle coke.
Here's a way to teach you: grind six or seven peppers, a proper amount of moxa sticks and an longan into pills, apply them to your navel every night before going to bed and take them off in the morning.
Take fried Ziziphus jujuba seeds (available in Chinese medicine stores), wrap them in gauze, add appropriate amount of water and boil them for 30 minutes, then take them out. Add millet and lily into the cooked Ziziphus jujuba seeds, then add appropriate amount of water to cook porridge, add brown sugar after porridge is cooked, and take it before going to bed 1 hour.
Lily has the effect of clearing the heart and calming the nerves. Ziziphus jujuba seed is sweet and flat. Has effect in nourishing live, calming heart, tranquilizing mind, and astringing sweat. It has a good effect on irritability, palpitation and insomnia.