Adequate and reasonable sleep is very important for the health of menopausal people. The so-called reasonable sleep, is that in addition to sleep time should be appropriate, in the preparation for sleep, posture and habits, etc. should also have some pay attention to, synthesize ten taboos. First, avoid eating before going to bed. People enter the sleep state, some parts of the body in the rhythm of activity will begin to slow down, into a state of rest. If you eat before going to bed, the stomach and intestines, liver, spleen and other organs to be busy again, which not only aggravates their burden, but also other organs do not get enough rest. The cerebral cortex in charge of the digestive system’s functional areas will also be excited, often produce nightmares after falling asleep. If you catch up with dinner too early to eat, before going to bed already feel hungry, you can eat less snacks or fruit (such as bananas, apples, etc.), but after eating, at least half an hour to rest before going to bed. Second, avoid using your brain before going to bed. If you have the habit of working and studying at night, you should first do the more cerebral things, and then do the more relaxing things, in order to relax the brain, easy to fall asleep. Otherwise, if the brain is in a state of excitement, even if lying in bed, it is difficult to sleep, over time, but also easy to form insomnia. Third, avoid bedtime excitement. People’s happiness, anger and sadness, are prone to cause nerve center excitement or disorders, making it difficult to fall asleep or even cause insomnia, so try to avoid great happiness and anger or worry about anger before going to bed, to make the emotional stability as well. If you are difficult to sleep due to nervousness or emotional excitement, please take the supine position, hands under the umbilicus, tongue lick the palate, the whole body relaxes, the mouth is born when, constantly will be swallowed, a few minutes after you will enter the dreamland. Fourth, avoid talking before bedtime. As the saying goes: “food does not speak, sleep does not speak”. Because people are easy to make the brain to produce excitement when talking, active thinking, thus affecting sleep. Therefore, the elderly should not talk too much before going to bed. Fifth, avoid sleeping on your back. Sleeping posture, to the right side and lie down for the best, so that the whole body bones, muscles are in a natural state of relaxation, easy to fall asleep, but also easy to eliminate fatigue. Lie on your back will make the whole body bones, muscles in a tense state, not only is not conducive to eliminating fatigue, but also easy to cause due to the hand on the chest to affect the breathing and nightmares, thus affecting the quality of sleep. Six, avoid open mouth and sleep. Sun Simiao said: “sleep at night often practice closed mouth”, this is the best way to maintain vitality. Open mouth and sleep, easy to suffer the air of viruses and bacteria, not only so that the mouth into the disease, but also easy to make the lungs and stomach by the cold air and dust stimulation, thus causing disease. Seven, avoid sleeping with your head covered. Older people are afraid of cold, especially after the arrival of winter, always like to sleep with their heads covered. In this way, will inhale a lot of carbon dioxide exhaled, the lack of necessary oxygen, extremely unfavorable to health. Eight, avoid when the wind and sleep. Do not let the wind blowing from the windows and doors to the head, body. Because people sleep, the body’s ability to adapt to the external environment has been reduced, if the wind and sleep, for a long time, the cold air will invade from the capillaries on the human skin, causing colds and flu, heavy mouth and eyes crooked. Nine, avoid sleeping on the lamp. When people fall asleep, although the eyes are closed, but still feel the light, if the light and sleep, the light will disturb the natural balance in the body, resulting in the body temperature, heartbeat, blood pressure becomes uncoordinated, thus making people feel uneasy, difficult to sleep, even if asleep, but also easy to wake up. Ten, avoid sleeping on the stove. Doing so the body overheating, easy to cause sores and other diseases. When you get up at night to urinate and defecate, it is also easy to catch a cold and cause colds. It is worth mentioning that, such as the use of honeycomb stoves for heating, should pay attention to ventilation to avoid gas poisoning.