Why do older people often have trouble sleeping?
Everyone feels devastated when they lie in bed and can't sleep even after exhausting all means. This is a situation that even young people may not be able to withstand, let alone the elderly.
So why can't the elderly always sleep, sleep well? The physiological factor that affects the sleep of the elderly is, of course, age. Some studies have shown that as we age, cognitive impairment in the elderly affects mood, which in turn affects sleep.
The theory of Chinese medicine is that insufficient qi and blood, insomnia is hair. The qi and blood has the function of harmonizing the yin and yang of the five organs of the body, the yang is active and the yin is quiet, and at night, it is the yin that is quiet for sleep. If the qi and blood is not harmonious, the five organs of yin and yang imbalance, yang over yin, insomnia will occur.
Simply put, one of the major factors triggering insomnia is the disharmony of qi and blood, and the loss of nourishment of the five organs.
①Mind is uneasy, then born sleepless
Heart is the five viscera and six bowels of the Lord, the main Tibetan God, blood is the material basis of the activities of the mind, only the blood is full, running smoothly, the heart master of the physiological function of the mind to play normally. If the Yin blood deficiency, the heart of the function of the blood will be blocked, the God shall not be supported, the mind is restless, resulting in the night can not sleep peacefully.
② Liver loss of detachment, the night restlessness
The liver is the main blood, detachment of the whole body qi, such as qi and blood stagnation, the liver does not hide the soul, the soul of the loss of nourishment, insomnia, sleeplessness and other problems. Liver and emotional activities have a great relationship, in order to sleep better, to avoid mood ups and downs.
③ Spleen and stomach disharmony, then sleep uneasiness
Spleen and stomach have the function of transporting and transforming essence, water and grain, insufficient qi and blood, spleen deficiency, transport and transformation powerlessness, eat in the food is not digested, you will feel bloated and uncomfortable, sleep uneasiness and uneasiness.
4 Lung qi can't get through, so you can't breathe well
Lung qi can be used to ward off external evils, if the lungs are deficient in essence and the lungs are deficient in qi, you will be prone to sweating or catching colds easily; in addition, if the lungs are deficient in qi and affect the breathing of the nose and orifices, you will suffer from nasal congestion and snoring, which will affect your ability to fall asleep.
⑤ Kidney Qi is not solid, then get up in the middle of the night
Kidney is the base of sealing, if the essence and blood is not enough, the marrow sea is empty, the kidney Qi is not solid, then the nocturnal urination is a lot, the middle of the night to get up frequently, affecting the sleep.
Sleeping well is one of the secrets of longevity, the elderly want to improve their sleep, the key is to have a good night's sleep, don't wait for the body to experience discomfort before regretting!
How to sleep well? Teach you to drink a tea by two points
a tea
The Chinese medicine believes that: insomnia is not in the treatment, but in the complementary, sufficient blood, internal organs, the coordination of the five organs, sleep naturally good. Therefore, the treatment of insomnia, food is better than medicine.
When you want to sleep well, you need to nourish our blood, so that the soul can be stabilized.
We usually eat more blood nourishing and yin nourishing food, for example, sour dates, mulberry, lily, cinnamon, Poria, etc., are very good nourishing liver and blood things.
You can also drink a cup of jujube nut, lily and poria tea before going to bed every night to replenish the liver and blood and regulate sleep, which will help you sleep y.
Method of preparation: put sour jujube nut, wolfberry, cinnamon, mulberry, Poria, cinnamon, lily, yellow essence, mulberry 7 kinds of ingredients into a pot, water boiled and then cook on low heat for 30 minutes.
Taking method: two hours before bedtime.
We also dispensed date nut lily poria tea, which was made into a bagged tea for easy daily infusion.
Sour jujube nut is the king's medicine, nourishing the blood and tranquilizing the mind, and is a potent remedy for insomnia. The Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica says it "nourishes the middle and benefits the liver, and helps the yin qi", and the Famous Doctors' Alibi Record says that it "is the master of the disturbed heart that cannot sleep". In ancient times, all the famous formulae to calm the mind and help sleep are common figure of sour jujube kernel.
Guiyuan is sweet and flat, tonifying the heart and tranquilizing the mind, nourishing the blood and benefiting the spleen. It can treat neurasthenia, insomnia and forgetfulness, palpitations and anxiety, emotional deficiency and brain loss.
Simple sour jujube kernel and cinnamon with, moisten and nourish the heart, liver deficiency of yin and blood, soothe the restless mind. Together with the mulberry that replenishes blood and the lily that clears liver fire, a clearing and a replenishment harmonizes the herbs.
Blood is enough to stabilize the soul, and naturally, you can sleep well every day, and sleep well to nourish the heart.
Two, two points
The Chinese medicine believes that: the human body sleep and Wei Qi closely related to the Wei Qi day line in the Yang and night line in the Yin, to ensure that the night sleep and day awake. Wei qi mainly through the yin stilt, Yang stilt and spread all over the body. There are two points on the ankle of the human body, Shenwei and Zhaohai, which are connected to the yang stilt and yin stilt veins respectively, and they can regulate the meridians in both directions, so as to make the circulation of Weiqi normal and improve the insomnia at night and sleepiness in the daytime at the same time.
The weather is getting hot, many people will appear at night sleep is not good, the daytime is sleepy phenomenon, especially in the middle-aged and elderly people this situation is more, encountered this situation, their own often point of kneading the ankle can be effective in alleviating this symptom.
1, Zhaohai point
Zhaohai point is the eight pulse meeting point, through the yin massage, in the inner side of the foot, the inner ankle tip below the depression.
Treatments: dry throat, epilepsy, insomnia, sleepiness, panic and restlessness, eye redness and swelling, menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, reddish-white leucorrhoea, yin ting, yin itching, hernia, frequent urination, insomnia, foot fungus.
With Shenmen, Fengchi and Sanyinjiao to treat insomnia with yin deficiency and fire.
2, Shen pulse point
Acupuncture point method: take the fixed point, can be used in supine or sitting position, the point is located in the human body of the lateral part of the foot, the foot outside the ankle center of the lower end of the centimeter concave.
There are countless people who have improved their insomnia through Chinese medicine! But unfortunately, now understand less people, benefit even less people.