Lung, like prime minister, plays an important role in keeping healthy!
The lung is also the most delicate organ of the human body, which is easily invaded by foreign viruses.
Therefore, it is particularly important to keep the lungs healthy.
People with bad lungs sleep in three ways:
1, coughing while sleeping
Cough is very common in daily life, but it is also the most easily overlooked.
If you often cough while sleeping, especially dry cough, itching and stabbing cough, it has not improved for more than a week.
Then, it is necessary to pay attention, which may be an important signal of lung injury.
This is because if too much poison accumulates in the lungs and cannot be excreted, it will cause continuous irritation to the lungs;
The lungs will help detoxify by coughing, especially when sleeping at night.
2. Chest tightness during sleep
If a person's heart and lungs are healthy, then when he sleeps, his breathing will be smooth and there will be no pressure.
Once, my chest tightness worsened when I slept, and I even woke up.
You should be alert to the cardiopulmonary function, it may have been damaged!
Especially those who smoke regularly, need to pay special attention and go to the hospital for relevant examination when necessary.
3. It is easy to wake up when sleeping
People with bad lungs are easy to wake up when they sleep, especially at 3-5 am.
This is because it is normal to be in a deep sleep state when the lung meridian is in season.
If you often wake up at this time, it means that lung qi deficiency or qi and blood deficiency will seriously damage your health.
Stay away from the three qi, remember three words, the lungs are healthier.
Stay away from the three qi:
1, tobacco gas
As we all know, smoking is harmful to health, especially to lung health.
Lung, the main gas exchange, contains many harmful substances in the gas after cigarette burning;
Once inhaled into the lungs, it will seriously damage the health of the lungs and increase the chance of getting lung disease.
2. lampblack
The cooking fume gas in the kitchen contains carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
When cooking, if you don't use a range hood, you will inhale a lot of lampblack and pathogenic gases, which will seriously endanger your lung health.
Therefore, when cooking daily, be sure to turn on the range hood in time, and don't let too much oil smoke inhale into the lungs.
3. Polluted gas
The lung is the dirty of clearing deficiency, and harmful gases such as smog, air pollution and decoration formaldehyde will hurt it.
Lead to phlegm retention in alveoli, upper and lower qi not circulating, abnormal blood circulation, damage to lung health!
Therefore, when the air quality is poor, try to wear a mask; Decorate the room and ventilate it in time.
Remember three words:
First, eat.
1, white food
Chinese medicine believes that white entering the lungs can nourish lung health and reduce the harm caused by smoking.
Lily: It belongs to the heart and lung meridian, and has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening lung, clearing heart and calming nerves.
Lotus root: since ancient times, it has been regarded as a good product for moistening dryness and nourishing lung.
Water chestnut: Known as "Jiangnan Ginseng", it can promote fluid production to quench thirst, relieve constipation, benefit lung and relieve cough.
Yam: It has the function of lubricating and moistening dryness, so it can benefit lung qi and nourish lung yin.
2, light diet
Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, such as pears and other fruits containing a lot of water, grapes and other berries, as well as citrus and other fruits with lung moistening and cough relieving effects.
Eat less fatty and heavy (salty or sweet) food, especially hot food such as mutton, so as not to cause lung dryness and heat.
Second, drink.
1, red perilla leaf tea
Perilla cotyledons are pungent, slightly warm and non-toxic. Spleen and lung meridian.
Has the functions of dispersing lung qi and preventing respiratory diseases.
It has a good moisturizing and physical therapy effect on the throat, is beneficial to the cure of local inflammation, and can relieve local itching, thus blocking cough reflex, and is beneficial to relieving cough and resolving phlegm.
In addition, Perilla frutescens leaves are also used for qi stagnation in spleen and stomach, chest tightness and nausea. Whether there are symptoms or not, they are mainly used to promote qi circulation and relieve middle energizer, and are often used together with Pogostemon cablin in clinic.
2, chicory tea
Land festival, nourishing yin and moistening lung, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, has a particularly good effect.
Platycodon grandiflorum can disperse lung and phlegm, relieve sore throat and expel pus. Soaking in water with it is very beneficial to lung health.
Dandelion can diminish inflammation and sterilize, promote detoxification, and has a good effect on all kinds of chronic inflammation.
Chicory can clear away heat and toxic materials, promote diuresis and reduce swelling, enhance human immunity, improve blood circulation and promote detoxification.
The combination of the four, daily drinking, moistening lung and detoxifying, diminishing inflammation and relieving cough, promoting salivation and relieving sore throat, and exhausting smoke and detoxifying are good choices.
3.honey grapefruit tea
Put honey and grapefruit together and boil water to drink, which has a good effect of moistening lung and detoxifying.
Honey, as we all know, can nourish yin and moisten the lungs. Drinking honey water every day can improve the body's immunity;
Grapefruit, with high nutritional value, has the function of clearing away heat and fire, and can help the lungs expel toxins.
Third, move.
1, breast enlargement
Stand on your legs, spread your shoulders and do chest expansion.
Function: dredge lung meridian, relax muscle tissue, promote blood circulation in lung, and facilitate the discharge of impurities.
Frequency: 1 time every day, about 15 minutes each time, to improve cardiopulmonary function.
Step 2 rub your back
Sit up straight and let people around you help you tap your back, especially the "Shu Fei Point" on your back.
Shu Fei point, Feibei point, located beside the spinous process of the third thoracic vertebra, with an opening of 1.5 inch.
Function: It can enhance respiratory function, increase lung ventilation, vital capacity and oxygen consumption, obviously reduce airway resistance and improve lung function.
Frequency: 1-2 times a day, and each knock is about 10 minutes.
Step 3 rub your nose
Methods: Put two fingertips on both sides of the alar and rub them up and down.
Times: Rub your nose for 5 minutes once a day, morning and evening.
Function: The nose is an organ directly related to the outside world, and it is a channel for lung breathing.
Rubbing the sides of the nose often can improve the defense ability of the nose, thus enhancing the function of the lungs and reducing the occurrence of diseases.