This year, March 21 is the 10th International Sleep Day, and the theme for 2010 is “Good Sleep, Healthy Life. World Sleep Day is a global sleep and health initiative launched by the International Foundation for Mental Health and Neuroscience in 2001 to draw attention to the importance of sleep and the quality of sleep. The reason why World Sleep Day is set on March 21 every year is because it is the vernal equinox, the first day of spring, and the cyclical nature of seasonal changes and the circadian pattern of sleep affects people’s daily life. He Qian, Department of Oncology and Difficult Diseases, Jinan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital
First, the rules of sleep During the Warring States period, the famous doctor Wen Zhi said to King Wei of Qi: “My way of health puts sleep at the top of the list, people and animals only sleep to grow, sleep helps the spleen and stomach digest food, so, so sleep is the first major tonic for health, people do not sleep one night, its loss for a hundred days is difficult to recover.” 21:00 pm to 5:00 am is the effective sleep time. People are animals, and plants belong to the same biological, daytime (5:00 a.m. to 21:00 p.m.) activities to generate energy, the night (21:00 to 5:00 a.m.) began to cell division, the energy into new cells, is the human body cells to recuperate, push the new time, but also people with the rotation of the Earth to the side of the back to the sun. Yin is the main quiet, is a good time for people to sleep, rest at this time, in order to have a good physical and mental state. This is the same reason that babies who sleep a lot grow fat and fast, while children who love to sleep are stunted. Sleep is a major function of health, raising is to replace the corrupt cells with a large number of healthy cells, such as a night of sleep can not be replaced by new cells. If say a million cells perish during the day, a night only to make up for half a million cells, then your body will have a deficit, a long time, people will chaff, like chaff carrot. Why are there centenarians in the world? Because they go to bed every night at 21 o’clock sharp. Plants absorb the energy of sunlight and grow at night, so the sound of plucking can be heard at night in the crops in the countryside. Humans and plants belong to the same biological, cell division time period is roughly the same, miss the good night to sleep, the new life of the cell far from catching up with the extinction, people will prematurely aging or disease, people want to go with nature, should follow the sun, that is, the sky awake I wake up, the sky sleep I sleep. People are as small as dust in front of the sun, “against the sun” is a stupid choice, sooner or later will be the sun’s huge gravitational force to collapse. This is the objective truth. In real life, many people have difficulty falling asleep, sleep quality is not high. Poor sleep is a comprehensive problem, such as excessive liver fire, sleep alertness; excess stomach fire, sleep restlessness; liver Yin deficiency, sleep strain. Second, sleep and disease modern habits and lifestyles bring a lot of negative impact on people’s bodies, the formation of the “four diseases”: fruit disease, refrigerator disease, television and computer disease, staying up late disease. The liver has one characteristic: it returns blood when it is lying down, while it supplies blood to the outside when it is sitting or standing. Ziji (23:00-1:00), in fact, 23:00 is the beginning of a new day, not 0:00, which is a misunderstanding we commit. Liver and gall bladder phase, mutual family, 23:00 bile meridian open, if you do not sleep, a big injury to the bile, because the eleven internal organs are dependent on the bile also, bile gas a deficiency, the whole body organs function down, metabolic power, immunity have fallen, the human body functions greatly reduced, bile gas support central nervous, bile gas injury prone to a variety of mental illnesses, such as depression, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, mania, etc.. The bile has to be replaced at the hour of the son, the bile meridian is gradually flourishing if people do not lie down, the bile turnover is unfavorable, too thick and crystallized into stones, which will get gallstones in the long run.
The liver meridian is at its peak at the ugly hour, the ugly hour (1:00-3:00) does not sleep, the liver can not lift off the toxic substances, produce fresh blood, because the blood collection is not conducive, the face is cyan, for a long time vulnerable to all kinds of liver disease, now some people’s liver is not very good, especially in Europe on average 4 people have a major triplet or minor triplet, mostly because of the violation of the natural law after the son of the hour does not sleep caused. Hepatitis A is more treatable, but hepatitis B is very difficult to treat. In the case of hepatitis B carriers, the virus has reached the cells because they often do not sleep at night and are too weak, which means that the order is too chaotic. In other words, the virus of hepatitis B has reached the cells, but now it is not capable of causing hepatitis, when the human body is at its weakest point it forms into hepatitis, and hepatitis B means 40% – 60% cirrhosis of the liver in the future. A wise person is supposed to understand the relationship between heaven, earth and man, and to do what is right for heaven and man. The liver is the master of drainage, and not sleeping after zi zhi can cause adverse drainage of the liver and depression of liver qi, which can lead to irritability, headache and dizziness, red eyes, eye pain, tinnitus, deafness, chest and rib distension, menstrual disorders and constipation in women, as well as insufficient promotion of liver qi, which can lead to tired eyes and fatigue, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, dizziness, insomnia, palpitations and mental trance.
The liver has the function of blood collection and blood regulation. Not sleeping past the zipper will cause insufficient blood in the liver, which will also cause bleeding symptoms such as vomiting, nosebleeds, subcutaneous bleeding, gum bleeding, bleeding under the eyes and bleeding from the ears. The liver is open to the eyes, so not sleeping past the hour of the zipper will cause liver deficiency, which will lead to blurred vision, presbyopia, night blindness, photophobia, tears in the wind, and other symptoms, as well as glaucoma, cataract, fundus arteriosclerosis, retinopathy and other eye diseases. The liver is the master of tendons, and its Hua is in the claws. Not sleeping past the zipper can cause a lack of liver blood, which can lead to tendon pain, numbness, flexion and extension difficulties, spasms and convulsions, and can easily cause gray nails, calcium deficiency, patellar tenderness, epilepsy, osteoporosis, etc. Liver and heart, not sleeping past the zipper can cause liver blood deficiency, because the heart is the main blood vessel, the liver has the function of storage and regulation of blood, will cause insufficient blood supply to the heart, causing symptoms such as heart panic, heart fibrillation, serious formation of heart disease, hypertension and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Liver and spleen, not sleeping past the zipper will cause liver and stomach disharmony, because the liver helps the spleen and stomach digestion, because the liver is too weak to help the spleen and stomach digestion, so that people have poor digestion of the spleen and stomach, manifested as thick tongue coating, which will cause the mid-qi to sink in the long run to appear gastric prolapse, uterine prolapse, etc. Liver and lung, not sleeping past zi zhi, unable to nourish yin and submerge yang, liver yin loss, causing liver fire to burn the lungs in excess, appearing dry cough, or cough, coughing phlegm and blood and other symptoms of wood and fire interfering with gold, easily leading to various skin diseases such as psoriasis. Liver and kidney, do not sleep past the zipper, liver deficiency leads to kidney deficiency, due to the liver and kidney homologation, prone to reproductive system diseases, infertility, bone disease, dental disease, hair loss, diabetes, kidney failure and other diseases. Third, the method of sleep Traffic rules – you do not understand it is easy to have an accident. For example, 23:00 to 3:00 a.m. for the son ugly time, the most active bile and liver meridian, the liver and gallbladder to return blood, “lie down to return blood, stand up to supply blood”. If you lie down every night around 22 o’clock, quietly do not talk, by 23 o’clock, also fell asleep. The liver and gallbladder begin to return blood, filter out the toxic blood, produce fresh blood, to a hundred years of age and no gallstones, cysts and other diseases. If you stay up until 1:00 every day, the liver can’t return blood, toxic blood can’t be removed, fresh blood can’t be produced, and the gallbladder can’t change bile, so these people are prone to gallstones, cysts and other diseases. Half an hour before bedtime, it is best not to talk, and even more so when sleeping, such as a talk, the lung meridian, and then the heart meridian and move, (because the heart and lungs together for the upper focus) people are prone to enter a state of excitement, so it is difficult to fall asleep. 21:00-23:00 is the time of Hai. The three jiao meridians are flourishing at the time of Hai, and the three jiao pass through all the veins. Sleep at the hour of the day, all the veins are moistened, so the centenarians have a common feature that 21:00 (the hour of the day) before going to sleep. Women who want to maintain a long time look good, should do early to bed and get up early. Sleep to close the window, the bedroom temperature should not be too low, people get sick a lot with this, because people in sleep, the circulation of blood slow, body temperature drops, the body’s immunity is low, easy to wind and cold to the neck and shoulder, low back pain, muscle pain.
The liver and gallbladder in the lower jiao, if the stomach problems, he will appear to sleep restless, that is, Chinese medicine often say “stomach and restlessness”. The causes: one is the stomach cold, if the person’s stomach Yang is already insufficient, too much green tea, there will be stomach cold, stomach cold when people do not sleep well, or eat too much with sediment, the stomach vaguely cold, certainly not sleep well; another is the stomach heat, that is, heat upward, the mouth gasping are hot, like this situation is also not sleeping well; another is the stomach dry, dry mouth and tongue, the stomach feels dry;. Third, is the stomach thick, the smell of taste, stomach thick, that is, heavy dampness, this situation is to eat this thick and greasy taste, some people eat seafood, eat fish, eat stewed chicken, taste good and fresh, eat more, delicious can not be used more, these things taste too thick, so this is also bad sleep.
Sleep to keep warm, the limbs should be warm, because the limbs are the yang of the essence, the limbs are not warm, certainly the kidney Yang deficiency, should be covered before going to bed to warm the hands and feet, hands and feet and navel, behind the life of the door that is the waist, should be covered. Fourth, to promote sleep: 1, before going to bed, simple leg pressure, and then sit naturally on the bed, overlapping hands on the legs, natural breathing, feel the whole body pores with breathing a closed, if you can tear yawn the best effect, to sleep when you want to fall down and sleep. 2, supine, natural breathing, feel the breath like the spring breeze, first melting the big toe, then the other toes, then feet, calves, thighs gradually melted. If you have not fallen asleep, do it again from the beginning. 3, people who fall asleep quickly can lie on the right side, the right palm to the right ear. The right palm is fire, the ear is water, the two form the water and fire that is to help, in the human body to form the heart and kidneys together. For a long time, nourish the heart and nourish the kidneys. 4, sleep in the spring and summer season must pay attention to the early rise, in line with the Yang Qi generation, modern medicine has proved that early to bed and early to rise people less mental stress, not easy to suffer from mental illness. People who like morning exercise should also pay attention not to go out too early in the morning to exercise, because in the morning before the sun does not come out, the sewer Zhang gas, turbidity, air pollution waste gas is going up, these gases on the human body damage is very serious.