Most of them are more sleepy during the day, but at night they are more energetic: some are lying awake, others are asleep but often wake up ……
Yes, you are insomnia!
01 Insomnia is not just about not being able to sleep
Insomnia has several criteria to judge.
Insomnia performance: difficulty falling asleep, falling asleep for more than 30 minutes.
Sleep quality: decreased sleep quality, sleep maintenance disorder, ≥ 2 awakenings throughout the night, early awakening.
Total sleep duration: reduced total sleep duration, usually less than 6 hours.
Daytime dysfunction: fatigue or general malaise; decreased ability to learn, work, and socialize; mood swings or irritability
02 What exactly is the problem?
Insomnia manifests itself differently for each person, but in general, it can be divided into five major categories. Take a look at these 5 major insomnia body, are you one of them?
1 difficult to fall asleep: anxiety insomnia
Staying up late, anxiety, biological clock disorders are the main cause of insomnia in modern people.
If you can’t fall asleep within 30 hours every time you go to bed, sleep less than 6 hours for a long time, and easy to think, more belong to this category.
2 Midnight waking: night waking type insomnia
Light sleep, dreamy, easy to wake up, wake up after difficult to sleep mostly due to excessive mental stress, but also does not exclude with neurasthenia, apnea syndrome and other diseases.
3 daytime sleepiness: internal deficiency insomnia
If you sleep normally at night, but still often sleepy during the day, this may indicate excessive physical fatigue, mostly related to other diseases of the body. If it lasts for more than a month, you should hurry to identify the cause to avoid deterioration.
4 sleeplessness: tired insomnia
If you wake up very tired and weak every time you sleep, but are not sleepy, it may be the cause of deep sleep deprivation. This may be related to bad mood and mental tension.
5 Sleep too little: hyperactive insomnia
Some people who sleep very little every day, but still have high spirits, may also be a kind of insomnia. Although the surface spirit is good, but in fact will greatly aggravate the loss of the body, laying disease hidden.
03 Internal deficiency must also rely on internal nourishment
Severe sleep disorders require timely consultation and improvement by medical means. General insomnia is expected to be alleviated by nourishing the internal organs.
1 abdominal distension difficult to sleep: nourish the spleen
Chinese medicine believes that poor digestion is a common cause of insomnia, manifested as food stagnation after eating, stomach acidity, foul stools, etc.
Food therapy formula: stomach three bud soup
Stir-fried wheat sprouts 30 grams, stir-fried grain sprouts 30 grams, stir-fried rice sprouts 30 grams, Chen Pi 15 grams, 4 ingredients added to 1000 ml of water, boil with high heat and then turn to low heat, boil for 30 minutes, drink after meals.
2 irritability and insomnia: nourish the liver
Most commonly seen after sleep with dreamy awakening, accompanied by chest distension, dry mouth, bitter throat, yellow urine, constipation and other symptoms.
Recipe: chrysanthemum tea
Use 6 grams of chrysanthemum with wolfberries to make water every day. Note that, because the chrysanthemum is bitter cold, physical deficiency, spleen deficiency, stomach cold people should not drink.
3 sleepless nights: nourish the heart
Can not meditate, it will keep the spirit in a tight state, can not produce sleep. If you can do concentration and meditation, it will help to soothe the emotions and fall asleep as soon as possible.
Food therapy formula: longan sour date drink
10 grams of gravy, 12 grams of longan, 10 grams of sour date seeds, and the right amount of sugar. Crush the date palm, wrap it in clean gauze, put it in a casserole with longan and gravy, pour in 500 ml of water and boil it for 30 minutes.
After boiling, take off the bag of sour dates, add the right amount of sugar, remove the slag and take the juice, drink as tea.
4 easy to wake up with panic: go to heat
There are many white-collar workers are occasional insomnia, but once you fall asleep on the nightmares, easy to wake up. After waking up feeling weak, accompanied by mouth bitter heartburn, diet less thought, mouth sticky phlegm, etc..
Food therapy formula: Chen Pi boiled water for tea
Select 6 grams of Chen Pi boiled in water and drink it as tea, every other day. It is recommended that boiling water is more effective than simply using boiling water to drink.