Introduction: Good sleeping habits and healthy sleeping posture can not only improve the quality of sleep and improve blood circulation but also prevent various potential diseases and make the body healthier.
As an old saying goes, "stand like a pine, sit like a bell, walk like the wind, lie like a bow." It can be seen that no matter standing, sitting, walking or sleeping, there is a lot of knowledge, not only pay attention to "stand, sit" etiquette, but also help physical development, promote health. The ancients had a sleep formula: "left lying bend left foot, bend the right arm, with the hand on the head, stretch the right foot, left hands between the right thigh. Lie on your right side and vice versa."
What is the healthiest sleeping position?
Traditional Chinese medicine has the saying that "obstacles then pain". Good sleep posture can ensure the whole body air holes are accessible, blood and collateral are smooth, can regulate Qi and nourish the spirit, help to remove fatigue, nourish the spirit.
According to ancient works Qian Jin Fang, "lying on your side with your knees bent is beneficial to your strength. It is better than lying on the back". Its "side-lying", refers to "half side-lying", can ensure the relaxation of the body parts, smooth qi, and blood, viscera access. Especially to the old person, the sleeping position should follow "lie like a bow" as a standard, lie on the right side especially for optimal. Because old people arrive certain age, each viscus of the body should produce atrophic degradation, the function is reduced, skeleton, muscle, the ligament also can become flabby and weak, sleeping position is bad, Qi and blood is not free, form senile deformity easily. But not all elderly people are well suited to sleeping on their side, where their shoulders and pelvis support their weight and blood circulation is easily compressed.
✵What is the correct sleeping position and what is the healthiest?
Generally speaking, sleeping position is divided into supine, prone, left lying and right lying four kinds, choose what kind of sleeping position, should be different because of the person, because of illness. Prone is the least recommended sleeping position, especially for people suffering from heart disease, hypertension, cerebral thrombosis, otherwise it will pressure the heart and lungs, affecting breathing; People who are overweight, snore or have respiratory problems should not lie on their back, which can cause the base of the tongue to fall and block breathing. Patients with gastric disease, acute liver disease, and gallstones should not lie on the left side, because it will oppress the heart and stomach; Lying on the right side is not suitable for pregnant women because it is easy to pressure the fetus in the abdomen.
The elderly with respiratory diseases should adopt the semi-lateral position. Those who have varicose of lower extremity vein, dropout, or old person that had changed the artificial knee joint, lower extremity once was injured, the proposal is supine sleeping, put foot in place a little taller, had better put a pillow below crus or foot, increase hemal backflow, promote hemal circulation of lower extremity; And the old person with bad liver bravery, recommend left side sleep pose. The person who suffers from the cervical vertebra disease, had better sleep on a hard bed, maintain the posture that lies supine, pillow better not too high. For people with diabetes or who drink too much, lie on your back so you can spread out your hands and feet.
The health benefits of proper sleeping position.
✵1. Magnetization effect: people living on the earth are always affected by geomagnetism. If the human body along the north-south direction of geomagnetism for a long time, can make the human body meridian and the earth's magnetic force line to the same, will make the circulation of QI and blood, viscera cells in order, produce the effect of biological magnetization, visceral function is adjusted and enhanced, play a good role in health care.
✵2. Prevention of disease: choose the head toward south feet toward north sleep, can borrow the magnetic field effect, promote blood circulation, greatly reduce the incidence of cerebral thrombosis. A healthy sleeping position can also prevent cardiovascular disease outbreaks caused by viscera compression due to sleep position not proper.
✵3. Promote digestion: lie on your right side with your legs slightly bent, so that the food in your stomach can be pushed towards the duodenum by gravity, which can promote digestion and absorption. At the same time, the whole body is in a relaxed state, breathing uniform and slow down, the brain, heart, lung, gastrointestinal, muscle, bone get enough rest and oxygen supply. For those with digestive problems, this is the perfect sleeping position.
✵4. Relieve fatigue: the most important meaning of sleep is to regulate the body and relieve fatigue. For a healthy person, there is no need to too rigidly adhere to their sleep posture, because people often can not maintain a fixed position to sleep until dawn, the vast majority of people are constantly changing the sleeping posture, as long as not to choose the position which is not suitable for their sleeping, it is more conducive to relieve fatigue.
✵ Tips: Chop Onions and ginger and wrapped with gauze bag, put aside the pillow, the smell can calm the mind, make cerebral cortex inhibited, effective treatment of insomnia.
Introduction: Good sleeping habits and healthy sleeping posture can not only improve the quality of sleep and improve blood circulation but also prevent various potential diseases and make the body healthier.
Traditional Chinese medicine has the saying that "obstacles then pain". Good sleep posture can ensure the whole body air holes are accessible, blood and collateral are smooth, can regulate Qi and nourish the spirit, help to remove fatigue, nourish the spirit.
✵What is the correct sleeping position and what is the healthiest?
The elderly with respiratory diseases should adopt the semi-lateral position. Those who have varicose of lower extremity vein, dropout, or old person that had changed the artificial knee joint, lower extremity once was injured, the proposal is supine sleeping, put foot in place a little taller, had better put a pillow below crus or foot, increase hemal backflow, promote hemal circulation of lower extremity; And the old person with bad liver bravery, recommend left side sleep pose. The person who suffers from the cervical vertebra disease, had better sleep on a hard bed, maintain the posture that lies supine, pillow better not too high. For people with diabetes or who drink too much, lie on your back so you can spread out your hands and feet.
✵1. Magnetization effect: people living on the earth are always affected by geomagnetism. If the human body along the north-south direction of geomagnetism for a long time, can make the human body meridian and the earth's magnetic force line to the same, will make the circulation of QI and blood, viscera cells in order, produce the effect of biological magnetization, visceral function is adjusted and enhanced, play a good role in health care.
