Now it's summer, firstly, it's a season when people can't sleep at night; secondly, it's also a season for people to revel. Because it is difficult to fall asleep, everyone will take to the streets. In the Northeast, it is basically to go to the street to eat skewers. Everyone gathers together, sits on a small bench, and then drinks beer and grills skewers. This year’s World Cup is about to start. In the skewer shop You can also eat and watch the game. The weather in the south is also very hot, and it gets cooler at night. Everyone has come out for activities, how is it? Supper!
So in many places, summer is the season for people to revel, and they basically stay up late. They usually go to bed at eleven o'clock, but it is normal to go to bed at one or two o'clock at this time. Therefore, sleeping at night in summer becomes a problem. Many people have very little sleep, and what will reduce sleep hurt our body? What are the consequences? Let's talk about this topic today.
In fact, the habits of modern people and ancient people have undergone obvious changes. Human beings have evolved for tens of thousands of years. During the entire evolution process, they basically slept at night. When we were still apes who drank blood, we basically couldn’t hunt at night. It was dangerous to go out for activities, because we couldn’t see anything at night, and there were nocturnal predators, so humans usually rested on the top of trees at night. Go to bed when it gets dark. Later, in the farming era, we also slept at night. Although there were candles and oil lamps, they always cost money, so we went to bed at night to save money. Maybe scholars will light up lamps and read books at night, but ordinary people should work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and sleep when the sun goes down. Therefore, in the long evolutionary process of human beings, life basically followed the sun. When the sun came out, we started to move, and when the sun set, we went to sleep.
But now, our lives have completely changed. Because we have electric lights, it is convenient for us to go out, and suddenly we don’t sleep at night, especially recently, now we have mobile phones, WeChat, various entertainment software, and TV that we can watch. So many people lie in bed at night with their ipads to watch dramas. It is said that they can watch "The First Half of My Life" in the middle of the night. These situations lead to a drastic reduction in our sleep.
So, what exactly does sleep deprivation hurt? What changes will it cause in our body?
There is a big problem here. Everyone knows that night is the rest time of our body, and all parts of the body are resting. For example, Chinese medicine believes that at night, yin blood returns to the liver, and the liver meridian is nourished. At the same time, it also prepares for the rise of yang energy in the next day, so night is the time for blood to rest. At the same time, Chinese medicine has a theory that under normal circumstances, in a day, our qi and blood will flow into 12 different meridians, and it is regular. From 3:00 to 5:00 in the morning, the lung meridian begins, followed by the large intestine meridian, stomach meridian, spleen meridian, heart meridian, small intestine meridian, bladder meridian, kidney meridian, pericardium meridian, triple burner meridian, gallbladder meridian, and liver meridian. At 23 o'clock at night 1:00, 1:00 to 3:00 is the gallbladder meridian and liver meridian running time. People think that the body is detoxifying at this time, and the waste in the body is discharged.
In the past, we thought that this was all inferred by Chinese medicine, but now it really looks like this. For example, why do people sleep? It's very strange. Scientists didn't know it before, and they couldn't find out how to study it. Recently, it was discovered that at night, human brain cells start to shrink, leaving a gap between brain cells. At this time, the cells will weaken the nerves. cells, discharge the wastes of the daytime operation into the gap, and then the cerebrospinal fluid starts to flow to discharge these wastes, you see this is detoxification, right? So some people do not get enough sleep, the waste in their heads is not discharged, and they feel drowsy and want to sleep the next day. Why? Because the body has to clean it up for you, and only after it is cleared can its brain cells function normally, so sleeping is indeed detoxification. The ancient Chinese have said such a theory a long time ago, and the papers just published by modern science prove that it is true, which shows that the experience of the ancients is correct.
Therefore, night is an opportunity for the body to recuperate, and at the same time, the body expels toxins and wastes during the day. If you keep reducing the time of this opportunity, the body will not be able to recuperate, so it will be damaged. The first is to injure the liver and yin, which injure the liver and yin and blood, and eventually the kidney essence.
I always talk about kidney essence. Kidney essence is a special concept in traditional Chinese medicine. It is inherited from parents, called "innate essence"; Nutrients, and then inhale the light and clear air in the space. These acquired nutrients add up to become "acquired essence" and are sealed in the kidney. I have always pointed out that the concept of kidney essence is very important. Essence produces yin and yang, and essence is like the chaotic air that combines yin and yang, and then it will transform into yin and yang. We used to attribute essence to Yin, but in fact, essence is an original thing. Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" says that "Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things." This "one" is essence, and then there are yin and yang. Therefore, both kidney yin and kidney yang are born of kidney essence.
If we over-consume yin or yang, what will eventually be damaged is the kidney essence, that is, the original substance of your life will be consumed. Such a person will age quickly, and the skin, gastrointestinal tract, and body There will be problems with the entire promotion. I once told you what it feels like to have insufficient kidney essence. People with insufficient kidney essence often appear in a state of separation of yin and yang, that is, the deficiency fire comes up, the upper side is hot and the lower side is cold, and the upper side often suffers from oral ulcers, either toothache or throat Swelling and pain, or headache, dizziness, or red and swollen eyes, etc. In short, the upper part often catches fire; the lower knees, ankles, and legs are cold, and they are afraid of the wind and cold. The upper part is getting hotter and the lower part is getting colder and colder. Yin and Yang cannot be reconciled, water and fire cannot be balanced, so people with insufficient kidney essence will have such problems.
Recently, I have met many such people with insufficient kidney essence and many symptoms. When I saw it, I said that you have insufficient kidney essence. Some people have problems with their spleen and stomach. I said that your kidney essence is insufficient. He said how could I have insufficient kidney essence? I haven't had sex with my wife for a long time. I said that this may not be caused by it. If you stay up late for a long time, it will also cause insufficient kidney essence. You can recall it yourself. "No! I go to bed at one or two o'clock every day, and I have to go to work during the day." This is a long-term habit, which consumes kidney essence. So everyone remembers that deficiency of kidney essence is a common characteristic of modern people. Many, many people have deficiency of kidney essence, premature graying of beard and hair, early loss of teeth, heat in the upper part and cold in the lower part, and the body is always abnormal. This is insufficient kidney essence.
The deficiency of kidney essence is largely caused by not sleeping in many people, because the sleep of modern people is completely different from that of the ancients, and our state of not sleeping has become a very common phenomenon. Let me tell you, especially now For young people, parents nowadays generally indulge their children, no matter you, try to be as free as possible, so many children who see me for treatment now, I have observed that about 80% or 90% do not sleep normally, usually at night. Chatting on the Internet, watching TV shows, and seeing a lot of children in the second half of the night. For example, after you go to college, you can't control him anymore, don't worry, you don't know that he watches dramas every night. Therefore, these health concepts should tell children that the future generation of children will have insufficient kidney essence. Such children will be pale and sluggish all day long, unable to stand up straight, and writhing around because of lack of righteousness. People, there will be problems with the body in the future. From this point of view, in fact, sleep is very important to the protection of our health.
There are many, many people who have various diseases and problems in their bodies. I suggest him. I said that if you can persist for a week, go to bed at 9 o'clock every night and sleep until 7 o'clock the next morning, or even you Go to bed, sleep until 7 o'clock, persist for a week, your body will improve obviously, why? You have to give your body a chance to repair. You stay up late at night watching dramas and seek medical treatment during the day, but your body is still not good, because you haven’t given your body a chance to repair.
If you see in your circle of friends in the morning, someone is sending WeChat messages at two o’clock in the morning, you will sigh that this person doesn’t care about his body, he goes out every night to make skewers, and sings and dances at night, I tell everyone that he doesn’t care about himself The loss outweighs the gain in exchange for the damage to the health of the body for temporary happiness. So, I think all of us should reflect now, is our sleep consistent with the ancients? Is our sleep-deprived state justified? Is it necessary for us to compromise our health and not sleep in order to go out and play?
To learn Chinese medicine, you must first learn and understand the laws of changes in yourself and the natural world. After understanding, you will know how to live your own life. In fact, they are all small things. Put these small things back to their place and let them return to their normal state. Your body will slowly adjust to it. If your state is quite twisted with the changes in the natural world, and you still want to maintain your health, I think the hope of this is slim.
Okay, let’s talk about it today. We don’t sleep now. Going out every night in summer affects the liver and kidney, the yin blood and the ultimate kidney essence. This is the most basic substance of our life. If you don’t sleep and damage I don't think it's worth it. So everyone, it's summer, although it's a bit hot at night, there are skewers and the World Cup, but let's sleep well!
