Spring is getting stronger, and sometimes there is a little mist, lightly locking Yangcheng. At nine or ten in the morning, I especially want to sleep, and the problem of spring sleepiness will become more and more obvious.
How to get rid of the embarrassment of being drowsy and restless, experts said that if the spleen is deficient and damp, the spleen should be eliminated and invigorated, while the hyperactivity of liver-yang will clear the liver and purify the fire, and diet and exercise will help to eliminate spring fatigue without mercy.
Warm and humid are more prone to spring sleepiness
Spring sleepiness is a relatively common phenomenon. However, spring sleepiness naturally has the unique seasonal characteristics of spring.
Why does spring make people drowsy and unable to wake up? “This is mainly at the stage of this season’s transition, when the human body changes from Tibetan to hair, and blood qi increases. If you have strong qi and blood, you will naturally be able to adapt to this change and feel nothing, but if you have insufficient blood qi, it is easy to appear. The symptoms of spring sleepiness are mainly due to the fact that the yang qi in the body cannot keep up with the pace of the rising yang qi in the outside world.”
Residents in Guangdong are more prone to spring sleepiness, because in spring it gradually rains more, especially in the Lingnan area, the ocean monsoon blows over, making this area humid and rainy, with a lot of moisture in the air and high relative humidity. Therefore, the human body is also prone to signs of damp heat.
Dampness traps the spleen, and the yang qi in the body cannot be raised, which is somewhat similar to the lack of oxygen in the brain, so people are prone to drowsiness.
In more detail, yang qi is also divided into five stages in a day: “birth, growth, strong, old, and already”, and 9-10 am is the time when yang qi rises, and at this time Because water dampness traps the spleen and breaks the original balance of yin and yang, this hour is difficult for those who are damp and trapped in the spleen.
The spleen is deficient and the liver fire is prosperous, and it is easy to get tired.
Yang can dispel dampness, just like when the sun comes out, the dampness is dissipated. Therefore, people with heavy yang qi have strong qi and blood, energetic, ruddy complexion, and quick reactions. Such people will not have dampness in their bodies, and generally do not suffer from spring sleepiness. But there are two types of people who are particularly prone to spring sleepiness.
The first type: spleen deficiency
This category is relatively troublesome, mainly manifested as fatigue, drowsiness, heavy head, dizziness, and some even have nausea, loss of appetite, etc. Generally, the tongue coating is thick and greasy, the tongue quality is pale, and tooth marks can be seen.
“Spleen deficiency cannot transport and transform water-dampness, and water-dampness in turn aggravates the symptoms of spleen deficiency. External dampness adds internal dampness, and internal and external harmonization aggravates the symptoms of spring dyspnea.” Wang Qinghai said, “In In Guangdong, there are many people with spleen deficiency and phlegm-dampness constitution.”
The second type: Liver fire is strong
In spring, it is appropriate to soothe the liver, and if the liver fire is usually strong, such as irritability, palpitation, Symptoms such as insomnia, dizziness, headache, etc., are also prone to drowsiness caused by physical weakness at this time.
It is worth noting that for hypertensive patients with liver and gallbladder damp-heat, hyperactivity of liver fire, it is particularly easy to cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. According to Wang Qinghai, in the past 1-2 weeks, the hospital has admitted more than a dozen stroke patients, three of whom are only in their thirties and forties.
Experts remind that patients with high blood pressure who have symptoms such as lack of energy, sluggishness, dizziness, fatigue, and heavy limbs should not just think that it is spring sleepiness, it may be a stroke.
Dietary conditioning for strengthening the spleen and removing dampness
Spring sleepiness is originally just a physiological response of the body. If the situation is not too bad, you can use dietary conditioning first. Experts have different preferences for different situations.
Professor Wang Qinghai, a famous Chinese medicine practitioner in Guangdong Province, said: “Spring is the main factor for hair growth and all things grow. After the beginning of spring, the yang qi in the human body begins to rise, and in summer, yang qi reaches its peak, while autumn is the convergence and winter. It stores essence and yang qi.”
Spleen deficiency:
You can use lean meat, pork bones, and optional medicinal herbs such as Beiqi, Codonopsis, white peony, and Poria to drink in soup. Mainly to strengthen the spleen.
Remove dampness:
Drowsy, sleepy and heavy, you can make soup with Huoxiang, cardamom, barley, Gorgon, lentil, red bean, etc. Mainly wet.
Liver fire:
The food that clears the liver and purifies fire, you can eat winter melon, Chinese cabbage, white radish, cold melon, etc.
Recommended health-preserving recipe:
Kapok Atractylodes powder Ge pot pork bone
[Material]
Kapok 20g, Atractylodes 20g grams, 250 grams of fenugreek, 500 grams of pork bones, and 2 candied dates.
[How to do]
Rinse the pork bones and kudzu and cut them into small pieces for later use. After washing the kapok and atractylodes, add 1500 ml of water, and bring to a boil. Drink in about 1.5 hours.
[Efficacy]
Clearing heat and cooling blood, dampness and diarrhea. Kapok is sweet in taste, slightly cold in nature, can dehumidify and stop dysentery; Atractylodes japonica is hard and warm in nature, and has the effect of invigorating the spleen and drying dampness. The combination of the two has a good effect of clearing the dampness and heat of the intestines, and it is a seasonal recipe with great health value.
Exercise to remove dampness
In addition to diet, the second measure is exercise. Wang Qinghai said: “In the third month of spring, the earth qi rises and the weather falls. At this time, people’s yang qi gradually tends to the epidermis and is in a rising trend. It is most suitable for going out for a walk, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, and adapting to the qi of spring growth.”
This season, the more lazy you are, the more sleepy you will be, and the more you sleep, the more sleepy you will become. Lazy sleep is not conducive to the rise of yang qi. Therefore, in order to adapt to the climate change, you should go to bed late and get up early in your daily life, and often go outdoors, Go for a walk in the woods, go green, and become one with nature.
Text/Yangcheng Evening News reporter Zhang Hua
Correspondent Li Chao
Photo/Visual China