[Poor sleep when I am old]
Being older, less sleep, poor quality, napping during the day, unable to sleep at night, and woke up in the middle of the night, cognitive function decline, anxiety and depression, and suffering.
[The reason]
1. As you grow older, your sleep time decreases and your wake frequency increases. Older people may lose the ability to produce deep sleep. 2. Sleep quality is crucial to the health of the elderly. If sleep needs are not met, it will increase their risk of psychological and physiological diseases.
3. The elderly disease caused by death in later years is related to lack of sleep. Sleep worsening is related to Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, obesity, diabetes , and stroke .
4. The non-rapid eye movement sleep in the elderly is significantly reduced, which can promote deep sleep slow brain waves and sleep spindles and other brain waves activities weaken with age.
5, slow waves and sleep spindles help transfer information from the hippocampus responsible for short-term storage to the prefrontal cortex responsible for long-term storage and deepening memory. 6. Sleep degeneration is related to memory loss in later years.
7. The regulation ability of neuropeptide hormone in the elderly’s brain switches from sleep to awake state is weakened. Because the lack of hormones such as galactyl peptide and hypothalamic secretion will break the sleep rhythm of the elderly, making them feel tired during the day and difficult to fall asleep at night.
8. At present, there is no effective way to treat deep sleep in the elderly. Not drinking coffee in the afternoon, avoiding alcohol and ensuring regular sleep time cannot prevent the elderly from insomnia. Sleeping pills can only calm the brain, but they cannot help the brain fall asleep naturally.
[Traditional Chinese Medicine Dialectics]
1. It is related to liver dysfunction.
The elderly experience liver stagnation and qi discharge, which leads to stagnation of qi and blood stasis, causing heart blood stasis, which leads to insomnia.
2. It is related to heart and kidney dysfunction.
The kidney function of the elderly is reduced, the kidney yin is insufficient, and cannot help the heart. If the heart fire is too strong, the mind will be restless, which will cause insomnia.
3. It is related to the function of the spleen and stomach. The function of the spleen and stomach is responsible for transportation and transformation. If the spleen and stomach are not good, transportation and transformation will be abnormal. The blood biochemical is passive. The symptoms of blood deficiency and qi and blood deficiency can occur, causing heart and blood deficiency and restlessness, which can cause sleep disorder .
【How to deal with it? 】
1. Control diet before going to bed
. Don’t eat food one or two hours before going to bed. Don’t eat food that is difficult to digest for dinner, and don’t eat too much. Try not to drink coffee, wine, tea and other drinks that stimulate nerves and excitement. Drinking a cup of hot milk can promote sleep.
2. Appropriate exercise
Exercise appropriately during the day to sweat, promote blood circulation, and activate qi. You can also do some small exercises before going to bed, such as jogging, walking, etc. The body will easily feel tired after exercise, which is conducive to promoting sleep.
3. Avoid excitement before going to bed
Before going to bed, avoid being in a state of worry and excitement, release stress and maintain a calm mind to fall asleep better.
4. Lying in bed, no longer playing with your phone.
put the phone aside before going to bed, force yourself not to play, and let go of your mind and slowly fall asleep.
5. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment:
1 is liver depression and qi stagnation, and is treated with Chaihu Shugan San. , Xinpi Liang deficiency , treat with Xiaoyao San Heguipi Decoction. Treatment with Anshen Dingzhi Pills for heart gallbladder deficiency, heart and kidney do not intercourse , and treating with Tianwang Buxindan or Erxian Decoction.
The second is acupuncture patch: use traditional Chinese medicine to improve sleep, make small pills, and apply them to Neiguan point, Shenmen point or Sanyinjiao point.
The third is tea therapy. Use Chinese medicine to boil water instead of tea, such as soaking jujube kernel, lily , floating wheat boiling water, and drink half a cup before going to bed.
Fourth, the treatment of ear acupoints: bury beans at the ear acupoints, apply Wangbuliuxing seeds, etc. to the corresponding acupoints at the ear acupoints, and massage and stimulate them with your hands to help you sleep.
6. Actively treat cervical spondylosis , and perform precise minimally invasive relaxation treatment under the guidance of muscle bone ultrasound to relieve nerve stress, improve autonomic nerve function, increase blood supply to the brain, restore brain function, and promote sleep.
Doctor Brother Xiaoqiang
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