Sleep is a very natural thing, and it is also a necessary condition for human growth and objective development. If you don't sleep for a long time, or sleep for a long time, or sleep for too short, sleep time is not enough, etc. will cause serious damage to the body.
And the performance during sleep can also see whether a person is healthy. If the liver function is abnormal and the liver is vigorous, it will affect sleep and cause a variety of uncomfortable symptoms.
So what is liver fire?
First of all, the liver fire is a unique name of Traditional Chinese medicine, which is the "hot elephant" of the liver and yang. The liver here refers to the "liver" in the five internal organs of Chinese medicine, which has a specific function in Chinese medicine.
After the occurrence of liver fire, if we do not pay attention to it, or just treat it as an ordinary fire, it will aggravate the development of the disease, resulting in hepatitis, cirrhosis, and even hypertension, hyperglycemia and other diseases.
There is fire in the liver, sleep prophet, 3 abnormalities when sleeping, to be taken seriously, may be "evil fire attacking the heart"
1. Easy to wake up in the middle of the night.
Healthy people will sleep better and will not wake up when they sleep. Unless there is an outside voice, if they often wake up in their sleep and it is difficult to fall asleep after waking up, they should be considered because the liver is on fire.
Studies have found that liver fire is strong and has a lot to do with people's emotions. If they are depressed for a long time, excessive stress, irritability, and anxiety, they will cause insomnia and dreams, and it is easy to wake up in sleep. In addition to the short sleep time, people with strong angry emotions will also talk in their sleep, dream often, wake up tired, and so on.
2. Calf cramps
In general, cramps occur in cases of calcium deficiency or inadequate exercise warm-up. However, if the above situation does not exist, but the calf cramps are frequent, it is necessary to check whether it is related to the liver fire.
According to TCM theory, the liver also has the function of contracting muscles. Liver blood is insufficient, and qi and blood cannot reach soft tissues such as calves in time. The interaction of the two can cause uncontrolled muscle spasms, making the muscles stiff.
3. I like to grind my teeth
Excessive liver fire can also cause patients to grind their teeth. This phenomenon is very common among young people and middle-aged and elderly people, and it is necessary to be vigilant.
After the external evil invades the human body, a large number of "evil fire" will leak out of the organs, causing abnormal liver function, a large number of toxins and waste products accumulate in the body, can not be metabolized in time, affecting blood circulation, so that the gum tissue can not get sufficient blood nourishment, resulting in teeth grinding.
To balance the body and calm the liver fire, you need to do three things well.
1. Eat more mulberries
Mulberry is one of the common fruits, sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature. Can enter the heart, liver, kidney meridians. It is a good fruit for nourishing the yin and nourishing the kidneys and nourishing the mind and nootropics. It can nourish blood and nourish yin, quench thirst, moisturize the intestines and reduce dryness.
Long-term consumption of mulberry can prevent dizziness and tinnitus, palpitations and irritability, insomnia, waist and knee soreness, early white quenching thirst, dry mouth and stool caused by excessive liver fire.
2. Eat more peach kernels
Peach kernel taste bitter, sweet, flat, return to the heart, liver, large intestine meridian. Drugs that belong to the same origin as medicine and food. Eating peach kernels regularly can activate blood stasis, moisten the intestines and laxatives, relieve cough and asthma, and calm the internal fire.
The pharmacological effect of peach kernels has been recorded in detail as early as the "Compendium of Materia Medica", which has the effect of moisturizing and invigorating blood. Modern Chinese medicine research has found that peach kernels can also be used to treat and prevent high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, vascular headache, neurological headache, peptic ulcer and other diseases. Caused by excessive liver fire.