Often I can't sleep and wake up at 3-4 a.m. What's going on?
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From the perspective of traditional medicine.The lungs begin to distribute the direction of qi and blood throughout the body at 3 to 5 a.m. If they are easily carried out during this time, the lungs may be operating poorly or there may be a deficiency of qi and blood。
Insufficient lung energy, low qi and blood circulation
This period of time is also known as "Yin time", Chinese medicine, Yin time is the lung meridian when the time, this time the lung qi is more vigorous, the person's qi and blood will also be from the static to the movement, nourishing the whole body, because people have been almost from sleep to resume the day's work, the body will gradually from the yin into the yang, the sleep during this time in fact, more need to be deep. However, if the lungs are blocked, qi and blood will clash with the blocked area andBut if there is a lack of qi and blood, and it is difficult to reopen the blockage to normal circulation, then the body will take its own peculiar course: awakening us from our sleep, theto alert us that certain organs of the body are being damaged by a lack of qi and blood, and this may be the time to wake up because it is difficult.
deficiency of liver blood
Especially in the spring, many friends may have managed to wake up at three or four o'clock in the morning, how to never sleep again, spring is the season of green, but also belongs to the liver (wood) season, spring liver, in order to replenish enough liver blood, this time of the year is also very easy to liver blood deficiency.The liver stores blood and replenishes it when we don't have enough blood, and if there is not enough liver blood, it can't help the blood break through the blockage, so again, we will wake up easily。
Therefore, if your friends are prone to waking up at the crib, pay attention to your liver and lung health, and you should also pay attention to the replenishment of qi and blood.
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine mentions, "The spleen is saliva and the kidneys are saliva." Saliva is formed by the rise of the body's essence, and its changes also reflect the condition of our body, the qi and blood is not good saliva is difficult to swallow and scarce.If you wake up in the early hours of the morning, why not swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva and drink some warm water, which can serve to replenish qi and blood, or help you sleep.
Overthinking, stress, cortical arousal
If we disregard traditional medicine, we use modern medicine to explain that most of them are due to excessive fatigue and exertion at work during the day, consuming more energy, and in the case of excessive brain fatigue and lack of glucose more, they may also not be able to run the steps of deep and light sleep properly, and wake up easily. In addition, overthinking and worrying a lot,States such as nervousness and excitement can also lead to strong cortical movements, making it difficult to fall asleep calmly or maintain a good night's sleep.For example, if we play some exciting games at night, we may keep associating subsequent developments that night and have similar scenarios in our dreams to the point that we cannot sleep peacefully, we are always attached, and our brain becomes more alert, unable to enter a state of deep relaxation and prone to waking up.
all things consideredIt is recommended that you stay calm before going to bed, don't get overly excited, and don't drink too much water!. There are some sayings that do not play the phone before bed, do not watch TV, in fact, these are due to the light may make us excited, but if the long term are used to play the phone before going to bed to watch TV in fact there is no harm, these bland and uninteresting items instead of making us more relaxed and calm.
Learn to de-stress on a daily basis, adjust your emotions and keep your mind on an even keel. You can try supplementing with B vitamins, especially B3, B2, B6 and other mediating nerve-related vitamins. Another thing isTake care of your lungs and liver, replenish your qi and blood, don't stay up late, and live a regular life.. It can be toned with some of the formulas and ingredients in Chinese medicine that produce fluids and replenish qi and blood, and it will definitely make a difference.
In fact, I have had this problem myself, for which I also looked up on the Internet, and here I share with you what I know, and please forgive me if there is something bad.
People often wake up in the middle of the night, and the feeling is very painful (I know it well myself) There is a part of theThere may be sleeplessness, so why is it that some people will always suddenly wake up a little easier at 3:00 am?
How did this phenomenon start? (Surely not caused by insomnia.)
I. Insufficient qi and blood in the body:
In fact, we all know, 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. the next day, are our body to rest and detoxification of a period of time (common sense; we all know), in this stage, we are in a deep sleep state, then for our body to bring the benefits is very big, and then the body will be more relaxation, when the body of the body appears to have insufficient blood and qi, to a large extent it will be The various organs in our body do not have the means to get enough blood and oxygen to nourish, but the human body still has a certain regulation and self-healing ability, in order to not let some other organs and tissues in the body by the qi and blood injury, the brain may force you to wake up in this period of time.
II. Mental decline:
In addition to the lack of qi and blood in our body, there is also the possibility that the cause of us always waking up at 3 or 4 o'clock is a cerebral neurasthenia. At this time, it is also possible that it is caused by their own cerebral neurasthenia. Such as daily life for a long time in a highly stressful state, and excessive use of the brain, it will make our brain does not get rest, sleep at night will cause cerebral neurasthenia, so that you wake up in the early morning.
When this symptom occurs frequently, relaxing your stress and learning to take it easy can effectively alleviate this problem.
(c) Decline in lung function:
In addition to the two reasons mentioned above, there is another situation that is self-inflicted.
Possibly because of the decline in lung function, in 3, 4 o'clock time in general this time the lungs will be detoxification, for example, long-term smoking or lungs are not good people, in this point in time, not only will wake up, but also may be accompanied by coughing symptoms, so that can effectively help the lungs to expel toxins. Moreover, waking up at this point in time also indicates to a certain extent that the function of your lungs has declined, and you should support your lungs in time and help your lungs to detoxify.
So what's the solution to this problem?
3 methods:
1、Do not do things that have nothing to do with sleep
Consciously cultivate the habit of getting sleepy in bed, and try to avoid bad habits such as reading, playing on the phone, watching TV, eating in bed, and letting your body relax as much as possible.
2、Improve the sleeping environment
Keep the room temperature at 20-24°C to get into deep sleep faster. In addition, you can take a hot bath before going to bed to relieve the fatigue of the day, and hot water drenched over the skin will also make people tired.
3、Keep up the right amount of exercise
Regular exercise is effective in improving one's quality of sleep and even quality of life.
This is what Chinese medicine calls insomnia, or what we call insomnia.
There are various reasons for sleeplessness, which are summarized below for you:
1. Dietary disorders. Overeating, stagnation of food, damage to the spleen and stomach, resulting in phlegm and heat, blockage in the middle, phlegm and heat upward disturbance, stomach qi disharmony, and sleeplessness. In addition, strong tea, coffee, wine and other beverages are also causes of sleeplessness.
2. Emotional disorders. Excessive joy, anger, grief and other emotional and spiritual excesses can lead to dysfunction of the internal organs, and insomnia occurs. Or by emotional disorders, anger injures the liver, liver qi stagnation, liver stagnation and fire, the evil fire disturbs the heart and god, and the god is disturbed and sleeplessness occurs. Or, if one's will is too extreme, the heart's fire blazes internally, disturbing the mind and causing restlessness and insomnia. Or excessive joy and laughter, agitation of the Heart and mind, and restlessness of the soul and sleeplessness. Or, sudden panic, resulting in a weak and timid heart, disturbing the mind and soul and preventing sleep at night.
3. Labor and leisure disorders. Too much labor and leisure is injurious to the spleen, too much leisure and little movement also lead to the spleen weakness, transport and transformation is not healthy, qi and blood biochemistry lack of source, can not be up to the heart, so that the heart and the spirit of the loss of nourishment and insomnia. Or overthinking injures the heart and spleen, and when the heart is injured, the yin and blood are darkly depleted, and God does not guard the house. When the spleen is injured, there is little food, the source of biochemistry is insufficient, and the Ying and blood are deficient and cannot be served to the heart, resulting in restlessness of the heart and mind at night.
4. Physical deficiency after illness. Blood deficiency after prolonged illness, and low blood in old age cause insufficiency of blood in the heart, loss of nourishment for the heart, and restlessness of the heart and mind and insomnia. This is also a common cause of insomnia in the elderly.
The specific cause of the disease need further examination to know, insomnia friends can look at my article, or give me a message or private message, I will try to help everyone answer.
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Due to the pressure of life and diet in modern society, insomnia has become a problem for most people. In Chinese medicine, insomnia is known as "the eyes do not close", "not sleep", etc., and "Difficult Classic" began to call it "insomnia", and in "Class Evidence Treatment and Cure", there is "panic and injury to the spirit, heart deficiency, insomnia", which often manifests itself in the form of difficulty in falling asleep, early awakening in the morning, and short sleep. Insomnia" is often characterized by difficulty in falling asleep, early awakening in the morning, and short and shallow sleep, which can be caused by psychosocial factors, physiological and pathological factors, as well as medication and environmental factors.
Some people often can not sleep, fall asleep in the morning at four or five o'clock that is waking up from sleep, wake up tired and weak, difficult to fall asleep, and wake up mood is not easy, but depressed. This kind of performance is clinically known as early waking insomnia. This kind of patients in traditional Chinese medicine identification belongs to the heart and blood insufficiency type insomnia, 2-4 a.m. is the heart and lung meridian is the weakest time, at this time in the patient's heart and lung function itself is insufficient in the case of the lung towards the hundreds of veins, help the heart to perform the function of the blood is even lower than at other times in the heart and blood insufficiency in the state of the body will be directly aggravated by the heart of the main function of the blood decline, which will lead to the insufficient supply of blood to the brain, and the brain for the house of the gods, the brain is insufficient to feed, make the gods have no nourishment, and also have no place to go to sleep. Insufficient supply to the brain leads to insomnia, as the brain is the capital of the spirit, so the spirit has nothing to nourish and nothing to rely on. This early waking type of insomnia may be a precursor of depression. According to clinical observation, early waking insomnia is mainly seen in all kinds of depression and psychosomatic disorders patients, especially depression patients, and accompanied by irritability symptoms. This kind of early waking type insomnia in the long run, may lead to mild mental disorder. Strengthen physical exercise, enhance cardiorespiratory function, ensure that nutrition is reasonably rich, maintain an optimistic mindset, positively face difficulties, and sleep conditioning from lifestyle habits. If the symptoms are particularly serious, you can find a regular doctor for conditioning.
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A lot of times when you can't sleep, it's because your body isn't tired. The mind is thinking too much. The best thing to do is to keep the body active, with a regular metabolism, which will affect the mind and will positively cycle.
A friend's mom chanting all day "can't sleep, can't sleep, a little sound will wake up, wake up in the middle of the night can't sleep." Friends came up with a way to not let her sleep during the day, work out with her, talk with her at night, do not let her close her eyes, the girl went out of her way to stay with her, watching her not let her close her eyes, to see if she would doze off. As a result, she fell asleep in the middle of talking at night, snoring, and woke up almost an hour later, and then she said, "I didn't fall asleep, I didn't fall asleep." It was really strange that she said she didn't fall asleep when she was snoring so loudly. When I was in the hospital, I stayed with her all day, and she slept so well at night that she couldn't wake up even though the hospital hallway was so noisy. When I woke up, I still said, "I didn't fall asleep".
Can you believe it? She's not asleep.
First, she did fall asleep, as can be seen from her sleeping response, sometimes sleeping for a long time, there is into deep sleep, otherwise, often there is no deep sleep, the human brain is confused, the whole person has no spirit, the body is weak. Long-term physical and mental problems will occur.
Secondly, she really didn't fall asleep because it was a psychological reaction. Because she had nothing to do during the day, not a little exercise, sitting for a long time, the body sleepy, but not really sleepy, people have no spirit, not good to fall asleep. Just because it is not good to fall asleep, long-term brain on the rumors, constantly reinforcing the idea that they do not dare to sleep, can not sleep, so the more you can not sleep, the more you think you can not sleep, that state is very torturous, the heart is very bad, so she will express their feelings to the closest people, "can not sleep, no spirit".
I used to sit in front of the computer a day, my body is very tired, sleepy, trance, but not as comfortable as the body is really tired, that is very easy to fall asleep, if physical labor all day, at night will fall back to sleep. This struck a chord with me, and the final solution was to change my mental thoughts and exercise more.
Put your mind at ease, if you can't sleep, you can't sleep, just to practice a little endurance. If your family snores, treat it as music, this is not to coax yourself, it is a real psychological adjustment. If you have a good mind, you will naturally be calmer and you will fall asleep soon. But if two or three days without a good night's sleep, the brain is prone to rambling, and can not control themselves, such a state close to the hyperactive, wild night restlessness, it is difficult to do, there is no way, can only sleep quietly, or to regulate their mood.
Do not go to bed too late, too late will not be easy to fall asleep. Don't exceed eleven o'clock, everyone's biological clock is different, no matter what time at night, when there is drowsy energy, immediately turn off the light and go to sleep.
Don't drink too much water at night; nighttime urination can cause people to wake up frequently. People who wake up and sleep poorly don't fall asleep easily. The reason is still rumination. If your mind is quiet and you don't think about anything, you will go back to sleep even after waking up. The most important thing is not to self-psychologically suggest, such as thinking, "This woke up, and can not sleep," and then began to think, like a movie in the head, so, certainly can not sleep.
If, life is not regular, we must work hard to adjust their own state of life, to do self-discipline, what do you want to do what you want to do, go along with their own selfish desires, inevitably which is comfortable to where to run, willing to pay to have a good mood.
A friend, sickly all day long, she is still very young, has been saying that sleep is not good, looking for doctors everywhere to see a doctor, see a lot of years do not see the effect, and then there is no way to work, have to feed themselves, right, go to work to force the body is very tired, the results are not a period of time, the person is very spirited, and there is no disease, sleep is also good.
There is also an old man, sickly state, all day listless, the family to find a nanny to serve, the result is still not, and then let her go to serve someone else, after a period of time their own spirit, and there is no disease.
We see a lot of old people, although very old, but do everything by themselves, do not drag others, but people are very spiritual. Some very young people, afraid of their own tired, household chores do not do, all day, no disease, mood is not good, the final result is a vicious circle, can not sleep, there is no serious disease, out of sub-healthy state, all day, moody, people do not have the spirit.
I am a person who studied Chinese medicine to self-medicate, so I'll answer your question from experience.
Any recurring symptom in the body, it has at least two causes, one physical and the other psychological. This is especially true of the problem of frequently not being able to sleep and waking up at 3 or 4 in the morning!
Not being able to sleep is first and foremost a result of more thinking at the mental level, and correspondingly at the physical level, where the spleen and stomach digestion is already extremely poor (the spleen and stomach don't just digest food, emotions are also digested by it). Three or four o'clock in the morning is the time when the qi and blood return to the lungs, and if the qi and blood run smoothly, this problem will not occur. If the flow of Qi and Blood back to the Lungs is impeded then it will produce an unpleasant feeling of dryness and heat and you will not be able to sleep.
Therefore, if you can't sleep at night for a long time, you must pay attention to it, because it represents that the internal organs have appeared relatively serious obstacles. Liver cancer patients tend to sleep from one to three o'clock in the morning for the first three to five years, while lung cancer patients are unable to sleep from three to five o'clock in the morning for the first three to five years.
So when you wake up at 3 or 4 o'clock on a regular basis, your lungs already have a relatively heavy blockage, and the first part of this blockage is usually just a sad qi depression. If you do not want to find a way to dissolve, qi depression for too long will be and blood and phlegm into a tangible mass.
The key may be what to do about this situation now?
The first step is to get out of the spell of having to fall asleep in order to get a good night's rest on a psychological level. I've responded several times before about sleep, and it's a practical and effective experience that I've used for myself and for guiding others out of the sleep rut over time, so you might want to check it out.
From the material level of the body should also cooperate with the body, the body appeared this viscera obvious disharmony, fluid consumption is very serious, weekdays can often cook some wine egg soup to do dinner to eat, to nourish qi and blood. Of course, it is possible that the spleen and stomach function is too poor, and can not eat or digest these sweet and greasy food.
These are some rough instructions, for detailed instructions, follow and contact me to provide details of your body's condition.
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After a good night's sleep, there is no problem waking up and doing things.
One, a person needs 8-10 hours of sleep per day when they are young, and as they get older, 6-8 hours or even 5 hours is normal.
So, you pinch yourself, and if you've already slept that amount of time based on the habits you normally form, you don't need to sleep anymore. You couldn't sleep even if you wanted to. The organism doesn't need sleep anymore.
Two, when you've had a full night's sleep, which isn't necessarily at which point in time
Ideal to go to bed at night and get up in the morning. Meets the needs of social activities.
However, if you go to bed early and start sleeping at 7/8pm, you'll only wake up at 3/4pm when you only need 5-6 hours of sleep. --as I am now.
That's when you stop trying to fall asleep, you get up and do things.
What a perfect time to read and write!
You can do everything you like except don't make noise.
Third, if you want to sleep and can't when you are sleep deprived, you have insomnia - sleep disorder syndrome.
This is a serious disease. Because sleep deprivation is associated with compromised overall health: from low immunity to gastrointestinal pathologies to a variety of psychosomatic diseases.
For those who have this kind of disease, it is urgent to seek the help of doctors, the medicine should take medicine, the psychotherapy psychotherapy.
Sleeplessness after a full night's sleep and insomnia are two very different things!
Answer as above.
A few years ago, after I graduated nursing school, I returned to work at a clinic in my hometown.
Dr. Liao's medical skills are known far and wide, and every day the clinic is filled with patients, one after another.
One day, I really got to see Dr. Liao's ability to see patients.
Through the door came a young man, not very old, just twenty or so.
When it was his turn, Dr. Liao asked him a question.
How come you can't sleep well at night?
You can see that, doctor! Yes, I do! I can't sleep well at night, not to mention the shallow sleep, and this time, I wake up as soon as it's 3:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m., and when I wake up, I can't easily go back to sleep, so it's a real pain in the ass! Look, what's causing this?
After hearing this, Dr. Liao took the lad's pulse.
What's your nightly routine, young man?
Oh! I have a penchant for playing games at night, and often I can't stop, staying up late to play games and sleeping late.
So do you snack at night when you're hungry?
That's for sure. When I'm hungry, I'll have a barbecue and a beer with my friends or something.
Again, do you usually exercise?
I don't sleep enough! I don't sleep enough. I don't have time to exercise!
You know, you can't sleep at night, and you wake up easily. You're to blame for all this!
The boy listens in confusion, what does that mean! Doctor.
Dr. Liao said, "Have you ever heard of "the lungs face the 100 veins"?
The young man was anxious: How could I understand? If I did, why would I come to see you?
Let me tell you something lad: our bodies have many meridians, each with its own job.
What about 3 to 5 a.m., when the lung meridians are on duty?
The liver has the function of blood production, after the liver pushes the blood out at the ugly time, it will provide fresh blood to the lungs, and through the lungs to the whole body, so in the morning, our face looks rosy, and we are very energetic, and we do everything with vigor.
This is the "lungs toward the 100 veins".
Therefore, we are at this time is to ensure that they have enough sleep, so that the body's blood flow normally, you always stay up late at night to play games, and very excited, can not sleep, that is the lungs to mention the advice, indicating that insufficient qi and blood, to make up for a complementary qi.
To eat blindly at night is to add burden to the organs, the qi and blood do not run smoothly, resulting in harmful substances not being easily discharged, so can the body be good?
Young people do not exercise how to do ah! Adopt a good habit of life, in order to have a strong body, overdraft body is the most undesirable, that way, the disease comes to the door oh!
After Dr. Liao's words, the young man was able to find the cause of the disease that had been troubling him for so long.
Dr. Liao has prescribed a prescription for the disease, with special instructions that, in addition to medication, diet is also important, and exercise is even more important.
There are many doctors who explain their conditions to their patients, but the patients are confused and do not understand them even after asking, and the prescriptions are even more like heavenly writings, which outsiders cannot understand at all.
Dr. Liao explains his patients' conditions in easy-to-understand vernacular, and most of all, his medical skills are superb, earning his patients' trust. No wonder business is so good!
Your condition is classified as insomnia. I have suffered from insomnia before just like you. Get up and feel tired, weak, dizzy, thinking of going to bed, but once in bed at night, can not sleep, the brain is incredibly awake and excited, nonsense. The whole night can't sleep, the next morning can't get up at all, and like to stay in bed, and then dragged to noon sometimes 1 o'clock in the afternoon to get up. In short, life is chaotic, the spirit is broken, and the body is quite thin and weak.
I then took a year off at home to recover and am now in better spirits and fit.
The first thing I do at home is to force myself to go to bed regularly, no cell phones at night, and lie in bed by 9:00 or so, whether I can sleep or not. At first, I would still toss and turn and couldn't sleep, but after a while I got used to it and slowly fell asleep. Since I go to bed earlier, I can get up early the next morning without an alarm.
Then get up and start doing push-ups, at first can only do one or two, and then slowly increase, insisted on a year, the chest becomes thick, the muscles also came out, slowly people's spirit is also good, the inner also more confident, life is naturally regular.
My advice is that you first need to change your routine and then work out diligently to slowly improve.
This can be said to be a typical insomnia, the Chinese medicine that the cause of insomnia is mainly "seven emotional injuries" and "dietary disorders". To put it plainly, there is something on your mind and your diet makes it difficult to eat. But if it is a dietary problem you should do some adjustment, I venture to guess that may be due to the heart of the matter is more insomnia, "heart disease also need heart medicine", others and how to persuade, for insomniacs as "scratching the itch", no use at all! It is said that "if you drink water, you know yourself", if there is really something that can not be solved, the main rely on their own regulation or seek professional help, the bystanders can not help.
Although there's nothing you can do to help you on the mental side of things, take a look at any areas you can improve in your sleep habits, which can also seriously affect the quality of your sleep at night.
1, some people's daytime nap time is particularly long, afternoon nap is 3-4 hours, resulting in difficult to fall asleep at night. Try to reduce the daily nap time to half an hour to an hour, to see if the quality of sleep at night has improved. Or think a little longer nap time during the day to work more efficiently, the whole day spirit is twice as good, a little bit of normal work and study, then I think there is no need to worry about the night's sleep, you can take advantage of this time to do something you want to do, rationalize the time can be.
2, some people, right, during the day is very leisure, nothing to do, to the night is rambling, began to insomnia. I suggest trying to do some physical activities, at the same time when it is a physical activity. When the daytime tired waist can not straighten up, the night want not to fall asleep are difficult.
3, less coffee and tea during the day, less water, coffee and fruit before bed. Coffee and tea contain caffeine has the effect of refreshing the brain, but also may lead to difficult to sleep at night. Eating fruit or drinking water before going to bed can make it easy to get up at night, and some people may wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to fall asleep easily. Now that summer is hot, I often like to eat some watermelon or other fruits at night, which often leads to the need to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, but fortunately I sleep well, and fall asleep again when I touch the pillow. But just because I woke up once in the middle of the night, in the morning, I would feel that I didn't sleep well yesterday, so now I just don't eat before I go to bed, and I sleep until morning!
4, don't eat too greasy dinner. Fat is the slowest emptying speed in the stomach, eating too much oil may feel upset stomach before going to bed, affecting sleep. If you eat too much oil, take a walk after dinner to eliminate food, which will help you sleep at night!
5, do not watch more exciting TV series or movies before going to bed, do not listen to songs while falling asleep. This will make the cerebral cortex produce excitement, it is difficult to have a good sleep!
Finally, if insomnia is so severe that it affects your normal life and studies, you may consider seeking professional help in a hospital! Sleep problems are like a "toothache" - they can take their toll on a person!
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