The Professional Sleep Society once again affirmed the magical effect of lavender on sleep at the conference in Chicago in 2003. Sprinkle a little essential oil on your bedroom or pillow 30 minutes before going to bed, which will bring you a good night's sleep.

Lavender should not be smoked at night to treat insomnia. First, the indoor air is not smooth; second, it is reported that the faint lavender is helpful to sleep, but the strong lavender smell has a refreshing effect.

What methods can promote sleep?

First of all, we should pay attention to the following taboos:

1. Avoid eating before going to bed: If you eat before going to bed, your stomach will be busy again, which will increase their burden, and other parts of your body will not get a good rest, which will not only affect your sleep, but also damage your health.

2. Avoid excessive brain use before going to bed: Do something easy to relax your brain before going to bed, so that you can fall asleep easily. Otherwise, the brain is in a state of excitement, and it is difficult to fall asleep even when lying in bed. After a long time, it is easy to lose sleep.

3. Avoid emotional excitement before going to bed: People's emotions can easily cause nerve center excitement or disorder, making it difficult for people to fall asleep and even cause insomnia.

4. avoid talking before going to bed: because talking is easy to excite the brain and make the thinking active, thus affecting sleep.

5. Avoid drinking strong tea and coffee before going to bed: Both strong tea and coffee are stimulating drinks, which contain substances that can make people feel excited, such as caffeine. Drinking before going to bed can easily lead to difficulty in falling asleep.

6. Avoid lying for a long time: Chinese medicine believes that "lying for a long time hurts the gas". Too much sleep can lead to dizziness, listlessness and loss of appetite.

7. Avoid sleeping in the wind: keep the room ventilated, but don't let the wind blow directly on your body. After a long time, cold air will invade from capillaries, causing diseases such as colds and chills.

Commonly used sleeping pills will not only produce drug resistance, but also easily cause liver damage. Recommend several hypnotic foods for reference only:

1. Milk: Milk contains tryptophan, which is an essential amino acid for human body. Drink a glass of milk before going to bed, which contains enough tryptophan to fall asleep. The satiety of drinking milk also increases the hypnotic effect.

2. Walnut: Walnut is a nourishing and strong product, which can cure mental weakness, forgetfulness, insomnia, dreaminess and poor diet. Eating walnuts every morning and evening is good for sleep.

3. Longan: Sweet and nontoxic. Longan meat can nourish the heart and spleen, nourish blood and soothe the nerves, and can treat insomnia, forgetfulness and neurasthenia. Guipi Pill, a traditional Chinese medicine prescription for treating dreaminess such as deficiency of heart and spleen and insomnia, contains longan pulp.

4. Lotus seeds: Lotus seeds have the function of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. MUBI upset insomnia, can add a little salt to lotus seeds, water decoction, take every night before going to bed.

5. Vinegar: When you are tired and insomnia, take 1 tablespoon vinegar and take it slowly in warm water. Close your eyes when drinking, and you can sleep peacefully for a while.

Strengthen self-supervision:

1. Know your sleep cycle. Everyone has their own specific sleep cycle, so we should choose the most suitable sleep time and way and develop a regular physiological clock.

Do moderate exercise every day, but don't do it at night. Moderate exercise can relieve the sympathetic nervous system and is a good way to improve sleep disorders.

3. Choose the right food for dinner. Dinner should eat more light food, such as fresh vegetables and fruits, and eat less irritating food. A glass of milk with honey before going to bed also helps to sleep.

Taking a hot bath before going to bed every night helps you establish a regular sleep cycle.

5. Massage can also promote sleep.

Comprehensive therapy for insomnia;

1. Health care therapy: massage the temples and Baihui points several times a day, and comb your hair with a health care wooden comb for 5 minutes to keep your mood comfortable, relieve your troubles and eliminate your ideological worries.

2. Dietotherapy: Take jujube, wheat and rock sugar. First, take jujube and wheat and add water to get juice, then dissolve the rock sugar and take it once a night, 1 time.

3. Medicated porridge therapy: take jujube, pork, rice and sugar in moderation. First, take rice to cook porridge, add jujube and pork when it is boiled, add rock sugar when the porridge is cooked, and cook it once or twice, once a day 1 dose.

4. Umbilical therapy: Take Ziziphus jujuba seed, grind it into fine powder, put it in navel, and fix it with externally applied Shangshi Zhitong ointment, and change it to 1.

5. Foot-sticking therapy: Take cinnabar, add appropriate amount of paste, mix well, put it on Shangshi Zhitong ointment, apply it to Yongquan point of foot, bind it up and fix it, 1 night.

6. Foot bath therapy: decoct Magnetitum, Chrysanthemum morifolium, Scutellariae Radix and Caulis Polygoni Multiflori in water for 2 times, remove residues to get juice, pour into the bathtub, and soak your feet while it is hot 15-30 minutes, every night 1 time.