Is there the easiest way to maintain health? Do not eat or move, close your eyes, and wake up to achieve the health effect. I believe this is very attractive to urban people who are afraid of trouble. In fact, one third of a person's life is spent in sleep. The correct sleep mode and good sleep state are closely related to health preservation. Traditional Chinese medicine advocates "prevention before disease" and "treatment before disease by work", attaches importance to the physical and mental recuperation, advocates "conforming to the four seasons to adapt to cold and heat, and living in peace with anger, and regulating hardness and softness while preserving yin and yang", and emphasizes the health preserving view of improving the ability of healthy qi and disease resistance. The so-called "positive qi is stored in the body, and evil cannot be dried" can be used to maintain health and prevent disease by regulating the daily lifestyle. As for sleep regimen, Chinese medicine naturally has its own secret.

Pay attention to sleep to maintain health

"Both sleeping and eating are the key to health preservation." Good sleep can replenish energy and restore energy, and has the effect of "nourishing yin and nourishing energy". Therefore, if you master the essentials of sleep regimen, you can set foot on a simple and easy way to maintain health.

Traditional Chinese medicine has always stressed the holistic view of "harmony between man and nature". The human body should not only maintain internal circulation harmony, but also pay attention to harmony with the external environment of nature. Some experts pointed out that with the changes of spring, summer, long summer, autumn harvest and winter storage, the human body must adapt to it, so there is a saying of "four seasons for health preservation". In autumn and winter, the natural yang gradually converges and hides. At this time, we should pay more attention to the maintenance of the internal yin qi in our daily life and rest, and emphasize that it is the right time to keep healthy in sleep.

"Sleeping early and getting up early in autumn, sleeping early and getting up late in winter" is the main way to sleep and recuperate at this time. For the specific sleep time, it is recommended to take a rest every night at 9:00 (9:00 - 11:00) and try to sleep at midnight (11:00 - 1:00). Because Zishi is the time when Yang Qi is the weakest and Yin Qi is the most abundant, sleeping at this time is the best way to nourish Yin, and the quality of sleep is also the best, which can often achieve twice the result with half the effort.

There are different opinions about the location of sleep, which is confusing. Some studies have pointed out that due to the influence of the earth's magnetic field, when people sleep, they take the orientation of the north of the head and the south of the foot, so that the magnetic line of force smoothly passes through the human body, which can minimize the interference of the earth's magnetic field. However, ancient Chinese health experts believed that people's sleeping direction should change with the alternation of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Sun Simiao, a famous medical expert in the Tang Dynasty, said in the "Thousand Golden Prescriptions" that "mortals lie to the east in spring and summer, and to the west in autumn and winter." This is because of the fact that "the five seasons of traditional Chinese medicine correspond to the five directions, such as the east of spring, the south of summer, the middle of summer, the west of autumn, and the north of winter, so the orientation of sleep corresponds to the solar terms at that time.

Experts also pointed out that although these theories are reasonable, there are some limitations in real life due to the influence of house orientation and home layout. In fact, we need not be too rigid in these theories, which leads to unnecessary worries. On the contrary, it is suggested that we should pay attention to ensuring sufficient sleep time, "calm the nerves and settle the mind" before going to sleep, drink hot milk or royal jelly, or bathe our feet with warm water, preferably supplemented by foot massage, to facilitate "heart and kidney interaction"... These measures have more obvious effects on improving sleep quality.

Medicated diet regulates sleep disorders

Insomnia, dreaminess, shallow sleep and easy to wake up are believed to be the most familiar problems for urban people in sub-health. These sleep disorders belong to the categories of "insomnia", "depression", "asthenic fatigue", "palpitation" and other categories in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine. They are related to various diseases and can cause different types of sleep disorders. For example, depression is often associated with depression, anxiety or menopausal syndrome in western medicine, and "fatigue" caused by old age and physical deficiency or severe illness will also affect sleep; The sleep disorder caused by digestive dysfunction is consistent with the traditional Chinese medicine "stomach disharmony, lying restless"; Cardiovascular diseases such as palpitation, shortness of breath and paroxysmal dyspnea at night also affect sleep.