Causes and treatment of insomnia

Insomnia refers to the situation where people cannot fall asleep when they should, nor do they feel sleepy, but feel very alert at night. Normally, people should be very tired after working and studying during the day, and should be able to sleep better at night, but many people often cannot fall asleep at night. Everyone knows that if you don’t get enough rest at night, it will affect your work and study during the day the next day. Moreover, if a person is in a state of insomnia for a long time, it will cause physical problems. Therefore, insomnia is a problem that needs everyone's attention. However, many people think that insomnia is a very normal phenomenon, and it is no problem to have it once or twice or for a few days occasionally. But in fact, if you suffer from insomnia frequently, you must seek treatment.

Some people believe that insomnia causes some problems in the human nervous system. So what are the causes of insomnia? How can people treat this symptom of insomnia? Let me tell you about it today.

Causes of insomnia: 1. Environmental reasons: Common ones include sudden changes in the sleeping environment.

2. Individual factors: bad living habits, such as drinking tea, coffee, smoking before going to bed, etc.

3. Physical reasons: Broadly speaking, any physical discomfort can lead to insomnia.

4. Mental factors: including opportunistic insomnia caused by excitement and anxiety caused by a special event.

5. Emotional factors: Loss of control over emotions can cause changes in mood, which are particularly evident when one is emotionally unstable. It can be caused by certain unexpected events, such as special happy events, or special sadness, anger, etc., which can lead to insomnia. This kind of insomnia caused by sudden events is only a phenomenon, which may be accidental and temporary; while more serious insomnia is a long-term phenomenon of poor sleep. Their mood is continuously in a low state. Tension, fear, worry, suspicion, anger, hatred, depression, anxiety and other emotions not only occupy their sensory organs during the day, but also cannot be stopped even at night.

6. Withdrawal reaction of sleeping pills or alcoholics

Treatment of insomnia: Chinese medicine diet therapy

Daylily

Also known as "calming vegetable", it has the effect of calming the nerves. In addition to cooking soup, it can also be stir-fried with other vegetables to make various delicious dishes. To improve insomnia symptoms, the main thing is to drink day lily soup with three meals a day. When cooking, blanch the day lily in hot water for half a minute to remove allergic substances on the surface. Then add water and boil it over high heat, then continue to simmer over low heat for 30 minutes. Filter the residue to get the soup, and then add some salt. You can also add some other vegetables, such as celery, tofu skin, mushrooms, etc. to make the taste better.

Solanum jujube

Jujube is a traditional Chinese medicine, and its kernel is famous for its sleep-inducing effect. If you want to use Chinese jujube seeds to treat insomnia, the method is very simple, just use it to cook soup or make tea. People who suffer from insomnia can drink sour jujube seed tea regularly. They can also use sour jujube seed soup to cook millet porridge. Since millet also contains tryptophan which can help you sleep, this porridge will have a significant effect on improving insomnia.

The above is an introduction to the causes and treatments of insomnia. Normally, people should not drink coffee or tea before going to bed, as these drinks will excite the brain and make people unable to sleep. Drinking some milk before going to bed can help sleep.