Sleeplessness at night is a very common symptom among modern people, and more frequently and seriously we use insomnia to name this phenomenon. Sleepless nights not only affect the normal self-repair function of the body, but also affect the normal life and work of the next day. What can be done to ease the sleeplessness at night?
Diet therapy for sleepless nights
You can help promote sleep at night by eating foods that have a tonic and calming effect on the mind. The following recipes can be referred to, and more can be eaten to ease the situation of sleepless nights.
Chicken soup with dried scallops and dates
Ingredients: 1 chicken, 24 grams of dried scallops, 10 jujubes, 60 grams of lotus seeds, 3 slices of ginger, salt to taste.
Method.
1. slaughter the chicken clean and remove the fat, hang dry water and chopped. Oil a pot, burst ginger, chicken pieces, a few moments later removed.
2. soften the dried scallops in water, remove the core of the dates, remove the core of the lotus seeds and wash.
3. Put all the ingredients into a pot, add the right amount of water, first boil over high heat and then boil over low heat for 3 hours, finally season to taste.
Efficacy: It can help to strengthen the spleen and nourish the heart, nourish Yin and blood. It is a good regulating effect for nighttime sleeplessness caused by physical weakness or overthinking.
Wood fungus and tofu soup
Ingredients: 250 grams of young tofu, 50 grams each of pork and spinach, 1 egg, 25 grams of magnolia slices, 15 grams of wood ear, 750 ml of broth, salt, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and chicken oil.
Method.
1. cut the pork, magnolia slices and fungus into fine shreds; wash and cut the spinach into sections.
2. Place the soup pot on high heat, put the broth, shredded pork, shredded magnolia, shredded fungus, spinach, soy sauce, salt, MSG, boil and skim off the foam, pour the egg into the pot and serve in a soup bowl, finally drizzle with chicken oil.
Efficacy: strengthen the spleen and appetite, for the spleen and stomach weakness caused by sleepless nights, poor appetite, lack of body limbs have a very good effect on the regulation.
Ginseng and lily porridge
Ingredients: 3 grams of ginseng, 15-25 grams of lily, 50 grams of round-grained rice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method: grind ginseng, peel and chop lily and put it into a casserole with round-grained rice, add the right amount of water and cook it into porridge over low heat, add rock sugar after the porridge is cooked and stir well.
Effect: Benefit the qi and nourish the heart, moisten the lungs and calm the mind. It is suitable for symptoms such as sleeplessness and restlessness at night caused by deficiency of both qi and blood.
Massage therapy for sleeplessness at night
When you can't sleep at night, you can massage your body locally to help improve the circulation of Qi and blood to achieve the purpose of promoting sleep.
Push and rub the waist and kidneys
Practice: the palms of both hands first rub each other hot after the palm root and palm surface attached to both sides of the waist, from the 2nd lumbar spine spinous process to the 4th lumbar spine spinous process between the up and down rubbing, until the waist has a warm feeling is appropriate.
Chinese medicine believes that by pushing and rubbing the waist can help to benefit the kidneys and help to calm the mind and promote sleep.
Head massage
Practice: Use the middle fingers of both hands to press the Fengchi points on both sides of the head for half a minute, and then press the solar plexus points for half a minute. Then use the five fingers of both hands flexed and pressed at the hairline on the same side until there is a soreness and swelling, and then slowly move backward to the top of the head.
Using gentle pressure on the head can help harmonize the body's hundred chakras, enhance the internal inhibition process of the cerebral cortex, and help promote sleep.
Splitting and wiping the eyelids
Practice: With eyes slightly closed, use the straight sides of the middle and ring fingers of each hand to attach to the inner side of the eyelids, then wipe from the inside out until the eyes have a dry feeling and the total amount of sleepiness still occurs.
This method can help induce sleep, generate drowsiness and promote sleepiness.
Hypnotherapy for those who can't sleep at night
People who can't sleep at night can adjust their physical and mental functions and behavior by practicing hypnosis on the self, suggesting to the self at the same time.
Practice: Before hypnosis, change into loose clothes, lie on the bed and put your arms naturally on both sides of your body with your palms down, legs slightly crossed and toes facing outward, then close your eyes and keep saying to yourself within half a minute "your right arm is heavy, your right arm is heavy, your right arm is heavy" and then suggest your right foot, left arm and left foot in turn.
Note that this practice does not allow you to fall asleep immediately, remember to take two deep breaths after the contact, adhere to the practice 1 to 2 weeks can help improve sleep.
Medicine pillow therapy for sleepless nights
People who can not sleep at night, you can replace their pillow with a pillow of medicine, through the role of drugs to help sleep.
Ingredients: 1000 grams of white mustard seeds, 100 grams of saponaria, 200 grams of tulip, 200 grams of calamus, 5000 grams of peel, 50 grams of aniseed, 20 grams of ice chips.
Practice: dry or dry all the above ingredients, grind them into fine powder and put them into the pillow.
Sleeplessness at night get up therapy
People who often can't sleep at night may want to try to change their lives and adjust their daily routine to help promote sleep.
1. Sleep and wake up time should be regular. Go to bed on time and get up on time every day, even if it is the beginning of a bad sleep or encounter weekend, holidays, do not sleep.
2. Keep the room clean and quiet. Tidy up the room, so that the daily sleep environment can be clean and quiet.
3. Do not drink coffee, tea or other stimulating drinks before going to bed; do not smoke, watch thriller TV novels or do brain work.
4. Do the same thing every day before going to bed to help form a conditioned reflex to help adjust your biological clock and promote natural sleep.
