For patients with hypertension, insomnia is a factor that seriously affects their physical health. So how can hypertension patients improve their sleep quality? Traditional Chinese medicine says that drinking vinegar can treat insomnia. Is it true or not? Let's take a look together.
Traditional Chinese medicine teaches you how to treat insomnia
1. Drinking vinegar
In traditional Chinese medicine, acidic substances can transform Yin Qi. Vinegar is an acidic substance, so it can effectively promote sleep.
Drinking one tablespoon of vinegar in a cup of cold water can help you fall asleep peacefully.
2. Smelling scents
Smelling the scent of citrus fruits and onions before bedtime can help with sleep.
Crush an onion and smell its scent before going to bed, and you will fall asleep quickly.
Place a peeled citrus fruit near the patient to smell its scent, which can calm the central nervous system and help with sleep.
3. Cooking lotus seed, longan, and lily porridge
Lily can clear heat from the heart and calm the mind, while lotus seed has the effect of eliminating restlessness and insomnia.
People with insomnia can cook porridge with lotus seed, longan, lily, and millet.
4. Pig heart soup
Cut open a pig heart, put in Codonopsis pilosula and Chinese angelica, steam it together, remove the herbs, and drink the soup with the pig heart. It has a good effect.
It is mainly suitable for those with weak heart and excessive sweating. Insomnia is often caused by excessive heart fire, so drinking some pig heart soup can nourish the heart.
How to regulate insomnia caused by hypertension
1. Maintain emotional stability
You should control your happiness, anger, grief, and joy, exercise your willpower, and be able to control your emotions, so that your spirit remains relaxed and happy.
You can often listen to relaxing music, practice calligraphy, and avoid watching exciting TV shows, books, and newspapers before bed. Maintaining emotional stability is beneficial to sleep.
2. Slowly get up
When getting up from bed, do it slowly to avoid a sudden increase in blood pressure, which may cause dizziness and affect falling asleep, and may even induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
3. Maintain regular bowel movements
Hypertensive patients should maintain regular bowel movements. If the stomach is not comfortable, it will affect sleep quality.
Dietary considerations for hypertension patients
1. Reduce salt intake
Eating too much sodium chloride is a pathogenic factor for hypertension, and controlling sodium chloride intake is beneficial for lowering and stabilizing blood pressure.
2. Quit smoking and drinking
Smoking and alcohol are risk factors for hypertension. Smoking and excessive alcohol consumption can increase the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in hypertensive patients, and alcohol can also reduce the responsiveness of patients to antihypertensive drugs.
3. Eat moderately
Eat three meals a day at regular times and in appropriate portions. Avoid excessive hunger or fullness, and avoid overeating.
4. Drink water scientifically
The hardness of water is closely related to the occurrence of hypertension.
Studies have shown that hard water contains more calcium and magnesium ions, which are important regulatory substances involved in the contraction and relaxation of vascular smooth muscle cells.
If these ions are lacking, blood vessels are prone to spasm, leading to high blood pressure. Therefore, hypertensive patients should try to drink hard water, such as spring water, deep well water, and natural mineral water.
5. Eat a light diet
It is recommended to have a vegetarian diet, as a vegetarian diet can lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients.
