Health knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine: the importance of sleep

Sleep is an indispensable link in the recovery of human function. People often say: "medicine is not as good as food, and food is not as good as sleep." This sentence fully embodies the importance of sleep.

During the Warring States Period, Wen Zhi, a famous doctor, said to Qi Weiwang, "My way of keeping in good health is to put sleep first. People and animals can only grow up by sleeping, which helps the spleen and stomach digest food. So sleep is the first supplement to health. If people don't sleep for a night, they can't recover for a hundred days. " Li Yu, a physician in the Qing Dynasty, also pointed out: "The key to keeping in good health is to put sleep first. Sleep can be refined, sleep can nourish qi, sleep can strengthen the spleen and stomach, and sleep can strengthen bones and muscles. " Therefore, people should conform to the laws of nature and follow the sun, that is, I wake up in the morning and sleep in the morning, and form the habit of going to bed early and getting up early.

But for modern people, staying up late has become the norm of life! According to the survey data of Amazon China, 8 1% people in China sleep less than 8 hours. Nearly 60% people usually fall asleep at midnight 1 1 to morning 1, while 46.6438+0% people get up before 7 o'clock. The reason why it is difficult for most people to form the habit of going to bed early and getting up early is that there are many misunderstandings about sleep besides some people's own bad sleep habits:

1. Some people think that it is enough to sleep for seven or eight hours every day. It doesn't matter if you stay up late at night, just make up your sleep during the day.

2. Many people stay up late or sleep badly, only knowing that they will feel mentally exhausted the next day, but they don't know how much harm it will do to their bodies.

Many people think that insomnia and difficulty in falling asleep are just minor problems. Just take a few sleeping pills, and they won't think it's caused by internal disorder.

Some people like reading and writing articles in the evening. After 23 o'clock, they feel very quiet, energetic and efficient.

In order to get out of the above misunderstanding about sleep, we must first know the harm of bad sleep habits to the human body and when sleep is good for health.

What harm does staying up late for a long time or lack of sleep have to the body?

9 pm to 3 am is the best time to nourish the liver and protect the gallbladder. If people don't sleep for a long time (23: 00-1: 00), they will hurt their gallbladder and liver. The initial manifestations are black eyes, dryness, fatigue, sunken eyes, dizziness, headache, mental fatigue and inattention. , there will be serious visceral disorders and various diseases.

1. Eye disease

The liver began to understand the purpose. If you don't sleep in the afterlife, it will easily lead to symptoms such as liver qi deficiency, blurred vision, presbyopia, tears in the wind, and eye diseases such as glaucoma, cataract, fundus arteriosclerosis and retinopathy. (So there is something wrong with the eyes, usually the liver. )

2. Bleeding symptoms

The liver has the functions of storing blood and regulating blood. If you don't sleep when you die, it will cause bleeding symptoms such as liver blood deficiency, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, subcutaneous bleeding, gingival bleeding, fundus bleeding and ear bleeding.

3. Hepatobiliary diseases

Bile should be changed when the child is young. If people don't sleep when they are full of bile, bile replacement will be unfavorable. If it is too concentrated, it will crystallize into stones, and over time it will get gallstones. At present, there are about 5 people infected with hepatitis B virus in Guangzhou on average, mostly because they don't sleep in violation of the laws of nature. Carrying hepatitis B virus means that 40%-60% of them will suffer from cirrhosis in the future, and in severe cases, they will form liver cancer.

4. Emotional illness

When I was a child, not sleeping easily consumed bile. Huangdi Neijing says that "Qi can make courage". If your bile is insufficient, you will easily feel uneasy, suspicious and timid. After a long time, you will have emotional problems such as depression and anxiety, and even world-weariness and suicide. Nowadays, there are more and more teenagers suffering from depression and even suicide, mostly because they often stay up late and hurt their courage. So depressed, anxious, etc. Can't just look for psychological factors, psychological abnormalities often come from physiological imbalance)

5. cardiovascular diseases

Not sleeping as a child will lead to liver blood deficiency. Because the heart is in charge of the blood vessels of the whole body, the function of the liver to store and regulate blood is impaired, which will cause insufficient blood supply to the heart, thus causing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as heart disease and hypertension.

6. Lung aspect

If you don't sleep as a child, you can't nourish yin and lower yang, and the liver yin fails to harvest, causing excessive liver fire, burning the lungs, dry cough or cough, hemoptysis and other symptoms, and it is easy to lead to various skin diseases such as psoriasis.

7. Kidney aspect

Shanghai, Zizi, and Ugly Time (2 1-3) are winter days. Spring grows in summer and winter harvests in winter. In winter, kidney should store essence, and liver and kidney are homologous. Not sleeping in the afterlife will easily lead to diseases such as osteoporosis, diabetes, renal failure and infertility, which will seriously affect the next generation.

8. Habitual abortion

Women's habitual abortion is mostly caused by men, and most of these men sleep above zero, which is too harmful to the liver. The liver belongs to wood in the five elements, and its wood property is not strong. Sperm, like weak seeds, has weak rooting ability and the fetus is easy to slip.

When is it healthy to sleep?

9: 00 pm to 3: 00 am is an effective sleep time and the best sleep time. Sleep less than half an hour at night (2 1 -3), and sleep for more than three hours during the day can't make up for it. Therefore, it is suggested that you grasp the effective sleep time, and it is best to sleep at 9 pm, not later than 10: 30.

1. Every day at 2 1-23 o'clock, the triple energizer meridian is the most prosperous, belonging to the triple energizer meridian of hand shaoyang, "triple energizer connecting pulse"; The gallbladder meridian at 23 o'clock-1 point is the most prosperous, belonging to the gallbladder meridian of foot shaoyang. One is that the hands are not yang, and the other is that the feet are not yang. What is shaoyang? Shaoyang is the rising sun! Only when people enter the actual sleep state before 23 o'clock can the sun of the human body rise and have a good physical and mental state. Most centenarians go to bed before 9 pm.

2.65438+ 0-3 am, the liver meridian is the most prosperous. Huangdi Neijing says that "blood belongs to the liver when people lie down", and the best time for nourishing blood and producing blood in the liver is 2 1 to 3 am. If people stay up until 1 o every day, the liver can't get back blood, toxic blood can't be discharged, fresh blood can't be born, and human viscera can't be nourished by qi and blood, which is very easy to get out of balance and cause disease.

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