Chinese medicine understanding of insomnia
Man is a product of nature, and the yin and yang of the human body corresponds to the rhythm of the yin and yang changes in nature, and heaven and man correspond. Sleeping and waking up are the result of the alternation of yin and yang. If yin is strong, we sleep, and if yang is strong, we wake up. Yang is active, the main rising, people are energetic during the day, suitable for work and study, while yin is quiet, the main convergence, energy and strength are reduced at night, suitable for rest and sleep.
The pathogenesis of insomnia can be simply summarized as “loss of harmony between yin and yang, and yang does not enter yin”. Excessive excitement or suppression of yang energy or excessive deficiency of yang energy are not conducive to sleep, while excessive deficiency of yin energy or too much yin energy in the body also makes it difficult to fall asleep.
According to TCM, the causes of insomnia include the following.
Firstly, poor diet, resulting in damage to the spleen and stomach, disturbance of phlegm and heat, loss of harmony and descent of the stomach, and restlessness when the stomach is not in harmony
Secondly, abnormal emotion and will, including violent anger hurting the liver, excessive joy and laughter. Excessive fright and fear. The five wills become fire when they are too extreme. Resulting in the dysfunction of the internal organs, evil disturbance of the mind.
Third, the disorder of labor and rest, tiredness and thinking too much injury to the spleen, resulting in a lack of qi and blood, the heart and mind, the lack of nourishment.
Fourth, deficiency of qi and blood caused by physical deficiency after illness, resulting in the heart losing nourishment, or yin and yang deficiency, yin deficiency and fire, the heart and kidneys do not intermingle, resulting in restlessness of the heart and mind.
Chinese medicine clinical insomnia is divided into actual evidence, deficiency evidence and mixed evidence, with deficiency evidence and mixed evidence being common.
Chinese medicine sleep and health especially advocate meridian sleep, the ancients even called this one of the three major treasures of health. Chinese medicine is to supplement the balance of yin and yang in the human body with the help of the external yin and yang qi.
Ziwu is 23:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., when yang is at its weakest and yin is at its peak, “the time of the circulation of the liver meridian”, and blood lying down goes to the liver. Conducts blood and immune detoxification repair. Promote the discharge of metabolites. So be sure to pay attention to go to bed before 11 p.m., into the best sleep state, when the most can nourish Yin and liver, sleep quality is also the highest, often can play a half-hearted effect. Some people who like to stay up late, often Yin deficiency fire, is to miss this time to sleep, dark depletion of the camp blood. From the perspective of modern medicine, the immune system’s ability to repair itself is strongest when the peak of sleep arrives. If you can not sleep before 23:00, easy to lead to a decline in immunity and thus induce disease.
Noon is 11:00-13:00, the most vigorous yang, yin, is the “heart meridian circulation time”, the best time to nourish Yang, so noon should also sleep. However, when the Yang is usually the most efficient, so nap to “nap” is the main, preferably 20 minutes after the meal and then rest, as long as 30 minutes of sleep can be. No matter how busy you are at lunchtime, you should take a break, even if it’s just a nap, it helps improve brain efficiency, enhance attention, and can help people eliminate fatigue, so people should take a half-hour nap every day at noon to achieve the purpose of nourishing the heart.
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