Why do you wake up at three or four in the morning and never go back to sleep? Chinese medicine reveals the answer

Sleep and health is the relationship of mutual influence, maintain benign interaction, has an important role in the normal operation of the human body, but some people "sleep until dawn" is an hope, often wake up at three or four in the morning, can not sleep, to the elderly, menopausal women and young people who do not sleep well, more depressed.

Middle-aged and elderly people with physical function decline, generally go to bed early, easy to wake up, get up at night, menopause is a physiological transition period, there are some abnormal manifestations in all aspects, young people under pressure, stay up more, fall into a cycle of sleep, wake up can't sleep. In the long run, it will undoubtedly become a health risk.

Often wake up at three or four in the middle of the night, the manifestations and reasons are:

There are five performances:

1, wake up mentally healthy, no sleepiness, lying in bed until dawn, this situation is less.

2, wake up hazy for a while, do not get up, and fall asleep again, but the sleep is light.

3, wake up to get up, fall asleep again, can not sleep, or frequently get up.

4, wake up sleepy, but can not sleep, lying in bed closed eyes.

5, dream wake up, recall the dream, it is difficult to fall asleep, the mind is drowsy.

Often wake up in the middle of the night, the reason is: sleep too early, thinking about things before going to bed, less activity during the day, often sulk, eat too full before going to bed, etc.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, sleeping until 3 or 4 am often wakes up, generally there are five conditions:

The first: heart and kidney do not hand in

From the tongue pulse, the tongue is red and mossy, the pulse is fine or the pulse string is smooth, and the ruler pulse is vigorous.

Heart and kidney do not pay mainly by kidney Yin loss, water failed to operate effectively, causing heart fire Yang, and kidney Yin can not fire down, water can not go up to the heart, so cause heart fire too hot. Heart and kidney do not cross the performance of heart Yin insufficiency, or partial kidney Yin deficit.

Daily symptoms are more common: palpitations, insomnia, fatigue, sores on the mouth and tongue, amnesia, wet dreams, or hot flashes, hot hands, feet and hearts, urination and so on.

Can be considered from nourishing Yin, nourishing blood, tonifying heart, reducing fire these aspects, Chinese medicine has Jiaotai pill, Zhu Que pill, Zhibai Dihuang pill and so on.

The second: liver qi insufficiency

From the tongue and pulse, the tongue is yellow and greasy, the pulse is left off, the string is weak and thin.

Deficiency of liver qi is related to liver meridian. Liver in traditional Chinese medicine is mainly for dispersing and storing blood. Based on blood gas, it is closely related to emotion, easy to stagnation of Qi and deficiency of Qi.

Daily symptoms are more common: shortness of breath do not like to talk, head distension, dizziness, tinnitus, white hair on the temples, bitter mouth, stomach distension, back pain and so on.

You can start with nourishing the essence of liver, daily use of nourishing liver blood soup and digestible food, or with Chaihu Shugan pill, Hegan soup and other conditioning.

The third: exuberant irascibility

From the tongue and pulse, the tongue is red, the moss is yellow, especially the tongue edge is red, and the pulse string is smooth and strong.

Irascibility is exuberant, basically it is liver gas rises hair too too, liver gas runs should diverge hold upward ability is good, but rise hair too too, liver gas can go up only and do not diverge, damage Yin causes irascibility, or liver blood is insufficient, Yin deficiency is excessive, irascibility is caused flourishing after certain time.

Daily symptoms are common: blush and acne, head heat and dizziness, bitter mouth and dry throat, tinnitus and hypochnic pain, yellow urine, dry stool, easy anger, etc.

Reduce liver fire, commonly used is clear liver diarrhea fire, calm liver wind, reconcile liver gas, available Danzhi Xiaoyao pill, Danggui soup, etc.

The fourth: spleen and stomach discord

From the pulse and tongue, the tongue coating is thick and greasy and white, the tongue is fat and big, or there are tooth marks, there is more mucus on the tongue, and the right hand pulse is deficient.

Spleen and stomach discord, mainly food and grain fine transport is not good, wet and stagnant, mostly seen in cold evil make the stomach, catch cold, or diet pay no attention, eat too much too greasy, snack too much too full, or old age, natural aging caused by spleen and stomach Qing, transport, intake function decline.

Daily symptoms are more common: eat a little on the full, stomach discomfort after meals, mouth white, complexion yellow, stool sticky shape, night more dream, get up after a long time not awake.

Harmony OF SPLEEN AND STOMACH SHOULD BE SYMPTOMATIC, ALL DISEASES CAN find THE cause FROM the spleen AND stomach, spleen and stomach disorder, careful differentiation of syndrome, with GUIPen pill, Jianpi pill, Shenling BAIzhu pill, BAOhe pill.

Fifth: lung qi deficiency

From the tongue and pulse, the tongue coating is pale, the pulse is thin and heavy, weak.

Deficiency of lung qi is an important reason for waking up at three or four in the morning. Traditional Chinese medicine thinks that at this time, the lung is in order, lung qi is insufficient, people will have chest tightness, cough, snoring, or lung internal heat, making people unable to sleep, some long-term illness, affecting the operation of qi and blood, fine can not be on the Rong in the lung, but also lung qi deficiency.

Daily symptoms are common: it is easy to sweat, easy to catch a cold, poor breathing, and more accompanied by whistling sound, daily cough, dry skin, dry hair, easy to constipation.

Available Buzhong Yiqi pill, Baofei pill, bufei decoction, if accompanied by sweating symptoms, as appropriate with Yapping granule.

Sometimes, often wake up at some point in the middle of the night, and even can't sleep for a long time, is the actual cause of insomnia, and too much thought, excited or angry, affect the mind, such as Yang into Yin, hand Yin deficient problem, available nerves recuperated tonic herbs, techniques of traditional Chinese medicine, such as acid jujube kernel, millet, red jujube, massage, acupuncture and moxibustion, etc., or before sleeping to soak the foot is good too.

Pay attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment, different symptoms, different methods, not disorderly medication, medication to follow the doctor's advice.