Sleep is an important part of everyone's life. How to improve our sleeping quality according to the traditional theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements?

1. Taboo drinking tea before bed

It's not only tea, but also coffee, functional drinks, cola and other caffeine-containing drinks can stimulate the central nervous system of the brain, which can easily arouse excitement and make it difficult for people to fall asleep. It is also because drinking tea and water easily makes the human body enter the aquatic tree's symbiosis state at night. Wood has the meaning of growth and vibration, which is not conducive to recuperation and livelihood.

2. Avoid sleeping with breath

Confucius taught us to "eat without saying anything, sleep without saying anything", which is not only a kind of etiquette, but also a way of keeping fit. Speaking more before going to bed can easily hurt the lungs, make people excited and difficult to fall asleep. At the same time, it is easy to get angry because of the discord in speech before going to bed. Qi injures the liver, accelerates the aging of the human body, makes people sleep unstable, makes the quality of sleep decline, and is not conducive to people's physical and mental health.

3. Avoid eating before bed

We do not advocate eating before going to bed because the human body has very little exercise after falling asleep, the gastrointestinal tract is in a resting state, and the food eaten cannot be digested well, which also causes them to rest, ferment and reproduce bacteria in the intestinal tract. Not only does it lead to poor sleep, but it is also prone to halitosis, stomach fire, indigestion and other phenomena. In addition, eating in the evening is said to be hungry ghost diet, harmful and not beneficial.

4. Avoid sleeping with lights on

As the saying goes, "sleep without lighting, get up early without dizziness", on the contrary, lighting and sleeping are harmful to health. First of all, sleeping with lights on makes people sleep unstable and energetic. Especially when the light is turned on, the eyes can not rest easily, resulting in acerbity and swelling of the eyes the next day. Secondly, the lamp is Dinghuo, like the moon, long-term illumination of the human body prone to Yinqi.

5. Avoid slightly drunk falling asleep

Nowadays, people's nightlife is more abundant and they have more social rewards. They often fall asleep with a little drunkenness. According to research, people who drink before bed are prone to snoring (that is, respiratory disorders), and some people will have suffocation for more than ten seconds, drunk snoring phenomenon, not only will increase blood pressure, but also cause coronary artery spasm, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, and even sudden death due to cardiac dysfunction. In addition, drunken sleep injures the liver and injures the heart, making people susceptible to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

6. Taboo Sleeping with Window Opening

After the autumn equinox, the weather changes from hot autumn to cool autumn. The temperature difference between morning and evening is large and needs to be kept warm. Sleeping with windows is liable to make the human body cold, leading to cold invasion. In autumn, diarrhea, cold, cough and other symptoms are most likely to occur. At the same time, the house not only has the function of keeping warm, but also prevents the bad Yin from entering. Sleeping with windows for a long time, it is easy to make its own Yang declining, Yin rising, and if there are external bad Yin invading the human body, it is easy to make people suffer from strange diseases.

7. Avoid staying up late to sleep

The best time for people to sleep is at night, but modern society and life have changed with the advocacy of the ancients, but in any case, they must go to bed before 10:30 p.m. and the next day after 11:00 p.m., which is typical of staying up late to sleep, which is extremely harmful to people's physical and mental health.