Nowadays, many families have higher and higher living standards. They can buy whatever they want. They can wear clothes every day without any difference, but some people have discovered a problem, that is, there is a lot of work pressure behind such a living state.
In order to make your family feel comfortable, some people are in overloaded work for a long time. They not only look depressed, but also have a high mental tension. In addition, they are not regular in their diet and often stay up late, which leads to excessive liver fire in their bodies, affecting their sleep quality.
If you find that you often can’t sleep at night and often wake up from 1 to 3 am to 3 am and never fall asleep again, you need to consider the problem of excessive liver fire.
Why does people with strong liver fire affect their sleep?
Traditional medicine theory believes that the liver is responsible for dispersing and storing blood. When a person's liver fire is strong, it will affect the blood storage. If the liver blood is insufficient, the hands and feet will easily become cold, and the drop in the surface temperature of a person will lead to poor sleep. At the same time, people with strong liver fire are prone to sulk, or their mood fluctuations are too large and prone to irritability. These emotions may gather depressed qi in the liver. Poor liver qi will affect the body and the quality of sleep will become worse and worse.
In addition to insomnia, people with excessive liver fire may also experience symptoms such as yellow tongue coating, red tongue, red eyes, dry and hard stools, and prone to irritability.
If you want to improve sleep, reduce liver fire , you can adjust your work and rest time, and you can also use food to supplement. Combining these two can often achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Adjusting sleep time is mainly to pay attention to not staying up late. It is best to sleep on time every day. Do not sleep more than 22 o'clock, and maintain 8 hours of sleep every day.
Food supplements first is to learn to avoid food, quit smoking and alcohol, eat less spicy, irritating, high oil and high salt foods, you can eat some cold foods that can relieve liver and clear heat and relieve liver fire, such as the following 4 types:
Type 1: Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle is a cold food, which has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and evacuating wind and heat. If the liver fire is strong, you can use honeysuckle to soak in water and drink it more. Persist for a period of time, which can help reduce liver fire, clear liver toxin , effectively reduce the burden on the liver, and enhance the liver's disease resistance.
Type 2: mung bean
mung bean is rich in nutrients, not only rich in protein , but also carbohydrate , phospholipids, amino acid , polysaccharides, and vitamin B. These nutrients can help to prevent inflammation and detoxify, clear heat and reduce fire, and have a relatively large effect on protecting the liver. Therefore, people with strong liver fire can eat mung beans frequently. When the liver fire drops, their sleep quality will be improved.
The third type: almond
Almonds are a relatively popular nut. The bitter taste contained in almonds can remove fire and clear heat and detoxify. In addition, almonds contain tryptophan, magnesium, minerals, etc., which can relax muscles and calm nerves, and have a significant effect on improving sleep quality.
However, although almonds are good, you cannot eat too much at once. They may have certain toxicity. Eating too much can easily harm the body.
The fourth type: water
Water can "enclose everything" and nourish everything, especially the liver needs sufficient water to nourish it, and drinking more boiled water can remove toxins and garbage in the body. It is recommended that the daily water consumption should reach about 2,000 ml.
or more foods, you can eat and drink more appropriately in your life. If you persist for a long time, it will not only help nourish the liver, but also help improve the quality of sleep. If you sleep well at night, you will be more energetic during the day.
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