Avoid eating before sleep: If you eat before sleeping, the gastrointestinal tract will have to work again, which increases its burden and other parts of the body cannot get good rest. It not only affects falling asleep but is also harmful to health. 2. Avoid overusing brain before sleep: Do some relaxing things before sleep to relax your brain, making it easier to fall asleep. Otherwise, the brain stays in an excited state, making it hard to fall asleep even when lying down. In the long term, it can easily lead to insomnia. 3. Avoid emotional excitement before sleep: Human emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness can easily excite or confuse the nervous center, making it difficult to fall asleep and even causing insomnia. 4. Avoid talking before sleep: Talking can easily excite the brain, making thoughts active and affecting sleep. 5. Avoid drinking strong tea or coffee before sleep: Strong tea and coffee are stimulant drinks containing substances like caffeine that can keep people in an excited state. Drinking them before sleep can make it hard to fall asleep. 6. Avoid sleeping for too long: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "long sleep hurts energy". Sleeping too much can cause dizziness, weakness, listlessness, and reduced appetite. 7. Avoid sleeping in a windy place: Keep the room ventilated, but don't let the wind blow directly on the body. Over time, cold air can invade through capillaries, causing colds and other diseases. Regular use of sleeping pills can not only cause drug resistance but also easily cause liver damage. Here are several recommended sleep-inducing foods for reference: 1. Milk: Milk contains tryptophan, an essential amino acid for the human body. Drinking a cup of milk before sleep has enough tryptophan to help with sleep. The feeling of fullness from drinking milk also enhances the sleep-inducing effect. 2. Walnut: Walnuts are nourishing and strengthening, treating neurasthenia, forgetfulness, insomnia, excessive dreaming, and poor appetite. Eating walnuts in the morning and evening can help sleep. 3. Longan: Sweet and warm in nature, non-toxic. Longan meat replenishes the heart and spleen, nourishes blood, and calms the spirit. It can treat insomnia, forgetfulness, and neurasthenia. The traditional Chinese medicine prescription "Gui Pi Wan" for treating deficiency of both heart and spleen, insomnia, etc., includes longan meat. 4. Lotus seed: Lotus seeds have the function of nourishing the heart and calming the spirit. For those who suffer from insomnia due to irritability and excessive dreams, they can take lotus seed core with a little salt boiled in water every night before sleep. 5. Vinegar: When tired and unable to sleep, take one tablespoon of vinegar and drink it slowly mixed with warm water. Close your eyes and stay calm while drinking, and you can fall asleep peacefully in a short time. Strengthen self-regulation: 1. Understand your own sleep cycle. Everyone has their specific sleep cycle. Choose the most suitable sleep time and method to form a regular biological clock. 2. Do moderate exercise every day, but not in the evening. Moderate exercise can ease the sympathetic nervous system and is a good remedy for improving sleep disorders. 3. Choose appropriate dinner food. Dinner should include more light foods such as fresh vegetables and fruits, and fewer stimulating foods. Drinking a glass of honey milk before sleep also helps with sleep. 4. Take a hot bath every night before sleep to help establish a regular sleep cycle. 5. Massage can also promote sleep. Related thematic articles:
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