What can you eat to calm your mind, nourish your heart and treat insomnia?

Under tremendous pressure from life and work, more and more people have developed serious insomnia symptoms, which brings many inconveniences to daytime life. Experts say that it can be treated through diet therapy. For example, lotus heart tea, lily porridge, sour jujube kernel porridge, salvia miltiorrhiza and rock sugar water, lotus seed, lily and lean meat soup, etc. have good effects in treating insomnia.

1. Lotus Heart Tea

Preparation method: 2 grams of lotus seeds and 3 grams of raw licorice. Brew with boiling water and drink like tea. Drink several times a day.

Efficacy: Suitable for heart fire inflammation, irritability and insomnia.

2. Lily Porridge

Preparation method: Wash 100 grams of raw lily and 100 grams of japonica rice, add 1000 ml of water, and cook until the rice is rotten. Take twice a day.

Efficacy: Suitable for insomnia (dry mouth, dry cough) due to insufficient heart yin.

3. Chinese date kernel porridge

Preparation method: Crush 50 grams of Chinese jujube kernels and boil them to extract juice. Use 100 grams of polished rice, add water and cook into porridge. When it is half cooked, add sour jujube kernel juice and cook until the porridge is done. Serve while hot. You can add sugar according to your personal taste.

Efficacy: Suitable for deficiency of heart and spleen, palpitations, forgetfulness, insomnia and nightmares.

4. Danshen Rock Sugar Water

Preparation method: Add 30g of Salvia miltiorrhiza to 300ml of water, simmer for 20 minutes over low heat, remove the residue, add appropriate amount of rock sugar and cook for a while, and take in two doses.

Efficacy: Salvia miltiorrhiza is bitter and slightly cold, it promotes blood circulation and soothes the mind, and has a calming effect on people with long-term insomnia.

5. Lotus Seed, Lily and Lean Meat Soup

Preparation method: Soak 50 grams of lotus seeds in hot water until they swell, then remove the core. Wash 50 grams of lilies. Cut 250 grams of lean meat into cubes, put them in boiling water to remove the blood, add lotus seeds, lilies, ginger slices, etc., bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until the lotus seeds are cooked and soft, then season.

Efficacy: Moisturizes the lungs, calms the mind, clears the heart, improves intelligence, benefits the kidney qi, and replenishes deficiency. It has good effects on palpitations and insomnia caused by neurasthenia.