You must read the eternal secret of sleep!

According to medicine, experience and observation, a person can only sleep for a maximum of two hours. The rest is a waste of time lying on the pillow and dreaming. There is no one who does not dream. As for waking up and feeling that he did not dream, it was because he forgot. Usually two hours of sleep is enough for a person, so why do some people need to sleep seven or eight hours? That is because you have developed the habit of staying in bed and lying on the pillow to rest. It is not that we need that much sleep time. Especially those who meditate and practice kung fu know that if you close your eyes and really fall asleep for three minutes at noon, it is equivalent to sleeping for two hours, but you have to sleep at noon. At night, you should fall asleep at midnight, and five minutes is equal to six hours.

1. Sleeping rules

Wen Zhi, a famous doctor during the Warring States Period, said to King Wei of Qi: "My way of keeping healthy puts sleep first. Humans and animals can only grow through sleep. Sleep helps the spleen and stomach digest food. Therefore, sleep is the first supplement for keeping healthy. If a person does not sleep for one night, the loss will be difficult to recover even in a hundred days."

9pm to 5am is the effective sleeping time. Humans are animals and belong to the same biological category as plants. During the day (5 a.m. to 9 p.m.), activities generate energy. At night (9 p.m. to 5 a.m.), cell division begins, converting energy into new cells. This is the time for human cells to rest and recuperate, and to innovate. It is also the time when humans turn to the side of the earth that is facing away from the sun. Yin is the master of tranquility and is the best time for people to sleep. Only by resting at this time can they have a good physical and mental state. This is the same reason why babies who sleep a lot grow fat and fast, while children who are fussy about sleep are underdeveloped.

Sleeping is a major function of health preservation. Preservation means using a large number of healthy cells to replace corrupt cells. If you can't sleep all night, new cells cannot be replaced. If one million cells die during the day and only 500,000 cells are replenished at night, your body will be in deficit. Over time, you will become skinny, like a skinny radish. Why are there centenarians in the world? Because they go to bed on time at 9 p.m. every night.

Plants absorb the energy of sunlight and grow at night, so the sound of jointing can be heard in the fields in the countryside at night. Humans and plants are both living organisms, and the time period for cell division is roughly the same. If we miss the good time to sleep at night, the new cells will not be able to keep up with the dying cells, and people will age or get sick prematurely. People should go with the flow and follow the sun, that is, wake up when the sun rises and sleep when the sun sets. Humans are as small as dust in front of the sun. "Going against the sun" is a foolish choice, and sooner or later they will be crushed by the sun's huge gravitational force. This is an objective truth.

In real life, many people have difficulty falling asleep and poor sleep quality. Poor sleep is a comprehensive problem. For example, excessive liver fire causes alertness when sleeping; excessive stomach fire causes restlessness when sleeping; and insufficient liver yin causes fatigue when sleeping.

2. Sleep and Disease

Modern living habits and lifestyles have brought many negative effects to people's bodies, forming the "four major diseases": fruit disease, refrigerator disease, TV and computer disease, and staying up late disease. The liver has a characteristic: it returns blood when you lie down, and supplies blood to the outside when you sit or stand.

Midnight (23:00-1:00), in fact, 23:00 is the beginning of a new day, not 0:00, this is a misunderstanding we make. The liver and gallbladder are the inside and outside of each other and are a family. The gallbladder meridian opens at 23:00. If you don't sleep, your courage will be greatly damaged. Since the eleven internal organs depend on the gallbladder, once the gallbladder is weak, the functions of the internal organs of the whole body will decline, and the metabolic power and immunity will decline one after another. The human body's functions are greatly reduced. The gallbladder supports the central nervous system. If the gallbladder is injured, it is easy to suffer from various mental illnesses, such as depression, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, mania, etc. The bile in the gallbladder needs to be replaced at midnight. If the person does not lie down when the gallbladder meridian is getting stronger, the bile replacement will not be favorable, and the bile will become too thick and crystallize into stones, which will cause gallstones over time. If the gallbladder is removed, the person will become timid and the body's immunity will drop by more than 50%. Therefore, the gallbladder cannot be removed. Instead, the huge potential of its own system should be used to dissolve the bile.

The liver meridian is most active at Chou time. If you do not sleep at Chou time (1:00-3:00), the liver cannot eliminate toxic substances and produce fresh blood. Because of the poor blood storage, the face will turn blue, and it will be easy to suffer from various liver diseases over time. Some people now have poor livers, especially in Europe, where one in four people has big triple positive or small triple positive, which is mostly caused by violating the laws of nature and not sleeping after midnight. Hepatitis A is easier to treat, but hepatitis B is very difficult to treat. Hepatitis B virus carriers are those who often cannot sleep at night and are too weak, which means their physical condition is too chaotic and the virus has already entered their cells. That is to say, the hepatitis B virus has entered the cells, but it does not have the ability to cause hepatitis at present. It will develop into hepatitis when the human body is at its weakest. Hepatitis B means 40%-60% of liver cirrhosis in the future. A smart person should understand the relationship between heaven, earth and man, and a stupid person is one who should be eliminated.

How much damage does poor sleep cause to the liver?

The liver is responsible for the regulation of qi. If you don't sleep after midnight, it can cause liver qi to be blocked and stagnate. You may experience irritability, headaches, dizziness, red eyes, eye pain, tinnitus, deafness, chest and rib pain, menstrual irregularities in women, and constipation. It can also cause insufficient liver qi rise and you may feel tired, weak waist and knees, dizziness, insomnia, palpitations, and mental confusion. In severe cases, you may faint on the street and lose consciousness.

The liver has the function of storing blood and regulating blood. If you don't sleep after midnight, it will cause liver blood deficiency, and may also cause bleeding symptoms such as vomiting blood, nosebleeds, subcutaneous bleeding, bleeding gums, fundus bleeding, and ear bleeding.

The liver opens up to the eyes. If you don't sleep after midnight, it can easily cause liver deficiency, which will lead to symptoms such as blurred vision, presbyopia, night blindness, photophobia, tears in the wind, and also cause eye diseases such as glaucoma, cataracts, retinal arteriosclerosis, and retinal degeneration.

The liver governs the tendons, and its essence is in the nails. If you don't sleep after midnight, it will cause liver blood deficiency, resulting in tendon pain, numbness, difficulty in flexion and extension, spasms and convulsions, and easily cause onychomycosis, calcium deficiency, patellar softening, epilepsy, osteoporosis and other diseases.

The liver and the heart, if you don't sleep after midnight, it can cause liver blood deficiency. Since the heart controls the blood vessels in the body, and the liver has the function of storing and regulating blood, it will cause insufficient blood supply to the heart, causing symptoms such as palpitations and arrhythmias, and in severe cases, it will cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as heart disease and hypertension.

The liver and spleen, if you don't sleep after midnight, it will cause liver and stomach disharmony. Because the liver helps the spleen and stomach digestion, and because the liver qi is too weak to help the spleen and stomach digestion, the spleen and stomach digestion function will be poor, which manifests as thick tongue coating, and in the long run it will cause the collapse of the middle qi.

The liver and lungs, if you don't sleep after midnight, you will not be able to nourish yin and suppress yang, which will cause liver yin deficiency, excessive liver fire and burning the lungs, resulting in dry cough, or cough, coughing up blood and other symptoms of wood fire punishing metal, which can easily lead to various skin diseases such as psoriasis.

The liver and kidneys, if you don't sleep after midnight, liver deficiency will lead to kidney deficiency. Since the liver and kidneys are homologous, it is easy to cause reproductive system diseases, infertility, bone diseases, dental diseases, hair loss, diabetes, kidney failure and other diseases.

3. Sleeping methods

Traffic rules - if you don’t understand them, it’s easy to have an accident. For example, from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. is the Zichou period, when the gallbladder and liver meridians are most active. The liver and gallbladder need to return blood, "lie down to return blood, stand up to supply blood." If you lie down at around 10pm every night, keep quiet and don't talk, you will fall asleep by 11pm. The liver and gallbladder begin to return blood, filter out the toxic blood and produce fresh blood. By the age of 100, the person will not have gallstones, hepatitis, cysts or other diseases. If you stay up late until 1 o'clock every day, the liver cannot return blood, the toxic blood cannot be discharged, fresh blood cannot be produced, and the bile cannot be replaced. Therefore, these people are prone to various diseases such as gallstones, cysts, big triple yang, and small triple yang.

In Europe, one in four people is a hepatitis virus carrier. This is called not understanding the rules. It is best not to talk half an hour before going to bed, and even more so when sleeping. If you talk, the lung meridian will move, and then the heart meridian will move (because the heart and lungs are the upper part of the body), and people will easily enter an excited state, so it will be difficult to fall asleep.

21:00-23:00 is the hour of Hai. At the hour of Hai, the Sanjiao meridian is prosperous, and the Sanjiao connects all meridians. If you fall asleep at the hour of Hai, all your meridians will be nourished. Therefore, the common characteristic of centenarians is that they fall asleep before 21:00 (the hour of Hai). If women want to maintain their beautiful appearance for a long time, they should go to bed early and get up early.

You should close the windows when sleeping and cannot turn on the fan or air conditioner. Many people get sick because of this. Because when people are sleeping, the blood circulation is slow and the body temperature drops. The human body will form a layer of yang energy on the surface. This layer of yang energy makes people "immune to ghosts". What does it mean? People with sufficient yang energy do not have nightmares. It is this yang energy that prevails. The situation is different when you turn on the air conditioner or fan. When you open the window, the wind goes through the window and enters the tendons. If you turn on the air conditioner, there is also wind, and the wind enters the tendons and the cold enters the bones. When you wake up in the morning, your body and face turn yellow, the tendon behind your neck becomes stiff, your joints become sore, and some people even start to have a fever. This is because the wind and cold have invaded the tendons and bones, and this is also the reason why the qi is injured. If you don't open the window, turn on the air conditioner, or the fan when you sleep at night, and even close the door, the effect will be the best. If it's hot, open the door and close the window, the effect will be a little worse, but you won't feel tired and have a stiff back when you wake up the next morning.

Some people turn on the air conditioner in the living room and open the bedroom door, which is almost the same as sleeping with the air conditioner on. After turning on the air conditioner, the cold air enters the bones, so the heart feels cold. Where is the heart? The heart is in the brain marrow. The brain is the sea of ​​marrow. If there is cold in the bone marrow, then the heart will definitely be cold. What should we do? Replenish the kidney yang and the middle qi. When the heart is no longer cold, the fever will subside and the cold will go away.

Try to go to bed early. Going to bed late will hurt the Shaoyang Qi and you will definitely feel tired and weak the next day. Close the windows and do not turn on the air conditioner or electric fan to protect the Yang Qi.

The liver and gallbladder are in the lower part of the body. If there is a problem with the stomach, the person will have trouble sleeping. One is stomach cold. If the person's stomach yang is insufficient, drinking too much green tea will cause stomach cold. When the stomach is cold, the person will not be able to sleep well. Or if the person eats too much food with mud and sand, the stomach will feel cold and he will definitely not be able to sleep well.

Another is stomach heat, which means that the heat goes up and the mouth is full of hot air. In this case, it is difficult to sleep well. Another is stomach dryness, which means dry mouth and tongue, and a feeling of dryness in the stomach.

Another one is thick stomach, the smell of the stomach, thick stomach, this situation is to eat this kind of thick taste, some people eat seafood, fish, stewed chicken, the taste is very delicious, eat too much, delicious food can not be used too much, these things in the body need to dilute it, if not diluted, it will be too thick in the body, so this also makes it difficult to sleep;

Another problem is abdominal bloating. The abdomen is bloated and you can't sleep, no matter how hard you toss and turn. Another problem is weak stomach qi and cold sweats, which also make it difficult to sleep. These reasons may cause stomach restlessness, and a restless stomach makes it difficult to sleep.

Keep your limbs warm when you sleep, because the limbs are the basis of Yang, which everyone knows. If your limbs are not warm, it is definitely due to insufficient kidney Yang. You should keep your hands and feet warm before going to bed, and cover your hands and feet, navel, and the life gate on your back.

Sleeping methods vary from person to person. Here are three methods:

1. Simply stretch your legs before going to bed, then sit cross-legged naturally on the bed, place your hands on your legs, breathe naturally, and feel the pores all over your body open and close with your breathing. It will be most effective if you can shed tears and yawn. When you want to sleep, lie down and sleep.

2. Lie on your back, breathe naturally, and feel your breath like a spring breeze, melting your big toe first, then the other toes, and then gradually the feet, calves, and thighs. If you are still not awake, start over.

3. People who fall asleep quickly can lie on their right side with their right palm supporting their right ear. The palm of the right hand represents fire, and the ear represents water. The two form water and fire, and form the connection between the heart and the kidney in the human body. Over time, it nourishes the heart and kidneys.

You must get up early after sleeping. Even in winter, you should not get up later than 6 o'clock. In spring, summer and autumn, try to get up before 5 o'clock. This is because when people get up at Yinshi (3 o'clock - 5 o'clock) when the lung meridian is strong, the lung qi can be stretched, conforming to the expansion of Yang qi, to complete metabolism, and to descend turbid Qi, so that the lung qi clears. This helps to nourish the lungs and conform to the sun's power to raise the body's Yang qi, so that a person has sufficient Yang qi for the day. Otherwise, it is like an engine. After this good opportunity, it is difficult to start the body's Yang qi. The body's Yang qi is accumulated in the lower part of the body and cannot be started and raised upward from the life gate, which will form lustful Qi and seriously damage a person's physical and mental health.

5 to 7 in the morning is the most active time for the large intestine meridian. The body needs to excrete metabolic impurities. If you do not get up at this time, the large intestine will not be fully active and cannot complete the function of excreting impurities. The impurities will stay and form toxins, which will harm the blood and internal organs. The stomach meridian is most active from 7 to 9 in the morning, and the spleen meridian is most active from 9 to 11. At this time, the human body's digestion, absorption and transportation abilities are the best. If you don't get up at this time, the gastric acid will seriously corrode the gastric mucosa, and the human body will not get nutrition at the best time to absorb nutrition. For a long time, you will suffer from spleen and stomach diseases, causing malnutrition and collapse of the middle qi. So don't lie in bed too late, as it will cause dizziness, fatigue, and lack of sleep. Instead, you should get up on time. Many great people in history had the habit of getting up at three or four o'clock, such as Washington, Napoleon, Emperor Kangxi, Zeng Guofan, etc. In addition, getting up early can increase work efficiency. As the saying goes, "Getting up early for three days is equivalent to working for one day."

Modern medicine has proven that people who go to bed early and get up early have less mental stress and are less likely to suffer from mental illnesses. Don't go out to exercise too early in the morning, because before the sun comes out in the morning, the underground sewer gas and foul air are rising (especially in cities), these gases can cause serious damage to the human body.

There are three major things for health care: sleep, convenience, and diet. The rest, such as daily life and clothing, are all auxiliary.

Of the three things, sleep is the most important. However, those with poor digestion and absorption will have trouble sleeping at night, so the second step is to promote bowel movements. If one eats without restraint and is too hungry or too full, his stomach and intestines will be damaged, and his nutrition will decrease day by day. The purpose of sleep is to calm the mind, and the purpose of mind is to calm the heart. It should be adjusted according to age. The maximum sleep time for an adult is seven to eight hours. Too much sleep will lead to dizziness, dizziness, red and swollen eyes, and weak limbs. Children must sleep eight hours, and more than nine hours is fine. The elderly or patients will need a maximum of six hours of sleep.

Disease warnings that cannot be ignored during sleep

It should be noted that:

(1) It is better to go to bed early, no later than 10 o'clock. For the elderly, 8 o'clock is the right time, no later than 9 o'clock. At eleven o'clock, yang is generated, which belongs to the kidney. If you suffer from insomnia at this time, the kidney water will be deficient. The heart and kidney are connected, and if the water is deficient, the fire will be strong, which is most likely to damage the mind. Never use sleeping pills to help you sleep.

(2) Avoid thinking about future matters when lying on the pillow. When sleeping, you should not think about anything. Breathe evenly through your nose and listen to your breath. It will become from rough to fine and then to subtle. Treat this body as nothing, or like sugar in water, which will disappear into nothing, and you will naturally fall asleep.

(3) If you have thoughts and cannot sleep, do not turn and toss on the pillow. This is very exhausting. You can sit up for a while and then go to sleep.

(4) Noon, that is, from 11:00 to 1:00 in the morning, is the time when Yin is born, which belongs to the heart. If you can’t sleep at this time, you can sit quietly for a quarter of an hour, close your eyes and relax, then your heart will be strong. Anyone with heart disease should pay attention to this. If you pay attention to this at these two times every day, your vitality will become stronger day by day, and you will not have heart palpitations, diarrhea, or frequent urination.

(5) It is better to get up early in summer and late in winter. People living in the north should guard against the cold. For example, in provinces such as Guangdong and Guangxi, they should get up early to prevent illness from mountain mist and miasma. Do not lie on your back after eating. If you wake up early, such as between 3 and 5 in the morning, you must avoid being depressed and angry, as this will damage your lungs and liver. Please be careful.