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Why can't you sleep with your feet facing west and your head facing East? I'll tell you why. Maybe it's not superstition

People should sleep every day. Adequate sleep can relax the body and mind, relieve the fatigue of the body, and keep the mental state sufficient, which is particularly important for the body.

By wu haoPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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People should sleep every day. Adequate sleep can relax the body and mind, relieve the fatigue of the body, and keep the mental state sufficient, which is particularly important for the body.

Now everyone's consciousness of keeping in good health is gradually improved, for sleeping this matter, sleep can not be the foot toward the west head toward the east of the statement, the people of the old generation often say so, is it true?

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Why can't you sleep with your feet facing west and your head facing East? I'll tell you why. It's not superstition

Sleep can't face the west to the east, this sentence is not superstition, there is a certain scientific basis.

Because the earth is a strong magnetic field, and the magnetic field is always divided by north and south, there is a certain Angle, that is, the magnetic deviation Angle, so the so-called sleep direction is not strictly speaking north and south.

External magnetic field is easy to produce some strong interference to the body, not only will affect the operation of various organs in the body, but also may lead to poor sleep quality, but the exact relationship between geomagnetism and sleep is still in the study, there is no conclusion, so it is difficult to conclude that "orientation will affect sleep".

What do you know about sleep taboos?

The pillow is uncomfortable

According to the survey report, in the world's 600 million people with insomnia, about a quarter of the people because of the choice of uncomfortable pillow caused by insomnia, pillow is too high, will affect the airway smooth, easy to snore, and long-term high pillow, easy to cause neck discomfort or hunchback, pillow is too low, easy to cause "stiff pillow".

Eat too much before bed

If you eat too much before going to bed, your stomach and intestines should be pressed to digest, and your stomach will constantly stimulate your brain, making you unable to sleep peacefully. As the Huangdi Neijing · Suwen · Negative Tone Theory says, "If your stomach is not in harmony, you will be restless in bed." This means that food and sleep are closely related, so you should control the amount of food you eat.

Avoid getting excited before bed

People's joys and sorrows are easy to cause the excitement or disorder of the nerve center, making it difficult for people to fall asleep, and even cause insomnia. Therefore, try to avoid great joy and great anger or worry and anger before going to bed. Half an hour before going to bed, you can listen to relaxed music or lie down quietly for a while.

Best time to sleep:

Some experts point out THAT THE biological clock OF human body will appear a low tide in 22 to 23, which is helpful for the person to enter a deep sleep state.

Therefore, it is recommended to go to bed before 11pm; However, the body clock reaches its climax at about 6 am. If people's sleep is not in harmony with the circadian rhythm, they will stay up late frequently for a long time, which will cause the biological rhythm disorder.

Adequate sleep helps to eliminate fatigue and restore physical strength, but also can maintain people's physical and mental health, enhance immunity, it should be noted that the more sleep is not the better, 7 to 8 hours a day is the best time, if sleep more than 8 hours a day, bad for the body, seriously may affect life.

How does Chinese medicine treat insomnia?

Acupuncture:

Traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture and moxibustion is a kind of treatment that is easy for the majority of patients to accept. Insomnia is called insomnia in traditional Chinese medicine, which is mainly manifested by not falling asleep easily or sleeping deeply.

Make Yin and Yang harmonize, dredging meridians and collaterals, stimulate limbs acupoints such as Hegu, Taichong, Zusanli, Yanglingquan, etc., to dredging meridians and collaterals, adjust Yin and Yang, make the body into a relaxed state and sleep, or acupuncture Shenmen, Jian, Ganshu, Pishu, and a kind of ear acupuncture therapy, for the treatment of insomnia is also very effective.

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) :

There are many traditional Chinese medicines used to treat insomnia, including amber, keel, cinnabar, albizia bark, jujube kernel, cypresson kernel, magnet, Yuanzhi, Fu Shen and so on.

Sleep direction head where good?

When the bed is placed, it should be adjusted according to the decoration of the house and the five elements of the individual.

The earth rotates from west to east, and the direction of sleep is very important. If the head is facing west, it will be with the help of the rotation of the earth, which will make the blood more easily to the head. Therefore, it is better to choose the head to sleep, which will be better.

Definition of a good sleep:

① Look at the time of falling asleep

When sleeping, you can fall asleep quickly (within 30 minutes) and wake up no more than twice. Even after waking up, you can fall asleep within 20-30 minutes and sleep through the night.

② The mental state of waking up in the morning

Wake up in the morning can be energetic to meet a good day, if the morning after feeling dizzy, sleepy, fatigue, fidget, can't concentrate, work ability decline, that is not a good sleep.

Sleep is the best health:

Wen Zhi, a famous doctor in the Warring States Period, said to King Wei of Qi, "In my philosophy of health maintenance, sleep is the first place. People and animals grow only when they sleep. Sleep helps the spleen and stomach digest food, so sleep is the first supplement for health maintenance."

There is a causal relationship between adequate sleep and cardiovascular health. Poor sleep quality or insufficient sleep can lead to various physical diseases. Sleep can relieve psychological stress, regulate emotions, and dilute the adverse effects of bad emotions on the human body.

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