Anxiety makes it difficult for people to fall asleep, and anshen decoction helps them to sleep.

Repeatedly thinking about the east and the west, it is difficult to fall asleep, which not only affects the spirit of getting up the next day, but also affects the spirit of going to work and attending classes. Chinese medicine suggests that anxiety and difficulty in falling asleep are related to qi deficiency of heart and gallbladder. To relieve the symptoms of anxiety and poor sleep, you can use lily, lotus seeds, longan and other cooking to clear your heart and help you sleep.

Anxiety makes it difficult to sleep. Chinese medicine suggests that anshen decoction can be stewed to help you sleep. (Photo/Huang Zhiwen) Huang Yuchang, a Chinese medicine practitioner at United Hospital, said that people who are neurotic or prone to thinking about the east and the west, causing mental anxiety, will have symptoms such as waking up at night. Usually, they will have timidity and palpitations, or they will be short of breath, tired and sigh for no reason.

It is suggested that patients with severe symptoms seek medical treatment as soon as possible, while patients with mild symptoms, such as once or twice a week, can prepare some ingredients by themselves, such as lily and lotus seeds, and stew anshen decoction in an electric rice cooker, which is quite helpful for sleep.

Qing Xin anshen decoction

Ingredients: Lily 1 2, heart-removed lotus seed 1 2, longan 5 yuan, a little rock sugar, and Lycium barbarum.

Practice: put the above materials together in the inner pot of the rice cooker, add 5 ~ 6 cups of water, and add 1 cup of water to the outer pot, and cook until the switch jumps. When cooked, wait for a while, cool a little, add rock sugar and medlar, and serve.

Function: Relieve insomnia, palpitation, depression and other symptoms.

Dr. Huang Yuchang also mentioned that 15 red dates, 10 floating wheat and 3 licorice can also be cooked with1000 ~1500 c.c. to relieve anxiety, insomnia and other symptoms.