Why do I wake up early and can’t sleep when the weather gets hotter?

1. Anxiety insomnia

Anxiety insomnia is the most common type of insomnia clinically. Most patients have long-term insomnia. The more they want to sleep but cannot fall asleep, the more anxious they become. Anxiety disorders are caused by constant stress. Most of the causes are mental stress, heavy work or thought pressure, anger, environmental changes and other factors. Some patients with anxiety disorders often report being upset, restless, psychologically tense, unable to sleep, cranky thoughts, and trigger Headache, insomnia, drowsiness, excessive sweating, palpitations, etc. This is also called anxiety disorder. This is a kind of emotional disorder caused by persistent uneasiness, tension, fear, etc. resulting in inexplicable tension and uneasiness. Unpleasant things will happen, such as being hit by unsatisfactory events, psychological imbalance, and no longer worrying about what will happen in the future all the time. , distress, irritability, and its mental state can be manifested as constant doubts or worries, depression, panic, as if a catastrophe is about to happen, being on tenterhooks all day, struggling with nervousness, often being troubled by big and small things, blaming yourself, losing temper, and being restless, Due to excessive anxiety and self-disease, kidney qi is insufficient, qi and blood are deficient, resulting in yin and yang imbalance, and the motility of the organs cannot function normally. Western medicine says that autonomic nervous system dysfunction can lead to hyperactivity of nerves, etc., resulting in excessive sweating on the hands, feet, and soles of the body. , palpitations, fast heartbeat, shortness of breath, muscle contraction, tremors, urgent urination and frequent urination, chest pressure, abdominal distension and diarrhea, throat obstruction, excessive sweating, weakness and numbness of limbs and other symptoms. In addition, there are also symptoms of anxiety, back There are symptoms such as fever, soreness and weakness in the waist and legs, numbness, and dull expression.

Patients suffering from anxiety disorders have varying degrees of insomnia disorder. The most prominent clinical symptom of anxiety insomnia is difficulty falling asleep. After the patient lies in bed, he can't fall asleep tossing and turning, and his mind is constantly thinking about one thing and another. It is not enough to think about things. The more I think about it, the more excited I become, and the more excited I am, the more unable to sleep. As time goes by, the patient has a phobia of kidney yin deficiency and liver yang deficiency. At night, he is thinking about whether he will sleep tonight. Always worried about insomnia, but really can't fall asleep. The result of this vicious cycle is anxiety insomnia, which makes it more difficult to fall asleep, kidney yin deficiency and liver deficiency, liver yang deficiency, qi and blood deficiency, and insomnia become more aggravated, making the patient more difficult to fall asleep. I am extremely distressed and hope to find a fundamental solution to insomnia.

In anxiety insomnia, most people suffer from physical weakness and frequent dreams, and the most prominent feature is superficial sleepiness and difficulty falling asleep. They can wake up at the slightest movement and have difficulty falling asleep after waking up. The next day, I always said that I had a nightmare last night and had no energy during the day. I had no excitement or energy to do anything, work or study. I had green eyes, a scorched face and other symptoms.

2. Depression and insomnia

Depression, especially psychogenic depression, is characterized by low mood, depression, sadness, loss of interest and joy in daily life, and spontaneous Responsibility and self-guilt mentality. Therefore, depression is mainly an affective mental illness. Patients with depression have reduced activity, weakness, and fatigue easily. The vast majority of patients have sleep disorders. Sleep disorders are mainly manifested by shortening the latency of REM sleep (normally considered to be 90 minutes, while depression (Within 50 minutes after the first REM sleep occurs in patients with syndrome), early awakening and deep sleep are reduced. As the patient's age increases, sleep disorders in the second half of the night will become more and more serious, mainly due to early awakening and late awakening, making it difficult to fall asleep easily. . Patients often wake up at two to three o'clock in the middle of the night with thousands of thoughts and emotions entangled in sad situations and cannot extricate themselves. The severity of insomnia is directly related to the severity of depression. When the condition is severe, sleep time is extremely shortened, but there is no obvious sleepiness during the day, only extreme fatigue and a sense of loss. This is because the level of arousal increases, making it more difficult to fall asleep during the day.

3. Psychotic insomnia

The cause of schizophrenia is mostly unclear, and it usually starts in young adults. The course of the disease is delayed and progresses slowly. In the acute stage, there are often hallucinations (auditory hallucinations, hallucinations, etc.) Visions, hallucinations) and delusions (delusions of persecution, delusions of grandeur), fragmented thinking, self-disorders, emotional disorders and personality disorders, etc. In the chronic phase, emotional retardation, behavioral withdrawal, and decreased will may occur. Insomnia symptoms often occur in the acute phase and worsen as the condition worsens. The root cause of patients' insomnia may be due to extreme uneasiness, fear, doubts and obsessive ideas. Insomnia is mainly characterized by difficulty in falling asleep, accompanied by moderate easy awakening and early awakening, which shortens the total sleep time. Some patients with schizophrenia in the acute stage are in a state of excessive excitement due to strong hallucinations, delusions, fear and uneasiness, making it difficult to fall asleep. They can hardly fall asleep until the early morning and wake up until noon. A symptom of day and night reversal is formed. From the electroencephalogram, the sleep performance of patients with schizophrenia is reduced SWS and REM, and their sleep is fragmented.

4. Self-massage therapy for insomnia

Insomnia is a common disease among middle-aged and elderly people. It is generally characterized by difficulty falling asleep, easily waking up, being unable to fall asleep again after waking up, and in severe cases, staying up all night. Relevant data show that more than 45% of the elderly have varying degrees of insomnia. Once you have insomnia, you often seek help from a doctor and take sleeping pills. Over time, it can easily lead to drug dependence. Here are four non-drug self-therapies for selection:

1. Lying on your back and rubbing your abdomen

Before going to bed every night, lie on your back on the bed, focus on your Dantian (navel), and first massage it with your right hand. Knead the abdomen clockwise around the navel and rub the abdomen with slight force. While kneading, count silently for 120 times. Then use your left hand to knead the abdomen counterclockwise around the navel for 120 times. The author has been practicing it for more than 20 years and it has a good effect on falling into deep sleep in the first half of the night.

If you can't fall asleep again in the second half of the night, you can rub your abdomen 60 times according to the above method, which will also have a certain effect on sleep.

Because abdominal rubbing can induce gastrointestinal peristalsis, especially in older people whose digestive function is weakened, the gas in the gastrointestinal tract will increase exponentially, often causing the large intestine to swell. Once the abdomen is rubbed, the large intestine is stimulated, and the gas is squeezed out and farts occur, which makes it easier to fall asleep peacefully. If the abdomen is not rubbed, the fart cannot come out, and the large intestine will expand, affecting sleep.

2. Step bean massage

Use 500 grams of mung beans, heat it in an iron pot over medium heat, pour it into the basin, wash and dry your feet at the same time, and put them in the basin When the mung beans are still warm, use both feet to trample the mung beans, kneading them while trampling. Start trampling 1 hour before going to bed every day, about 30 minutes each time.

3. Pat the Yongquan point on your left foot

After washing your feet every night before going to bed, sit upright on the bed, first tap the Yongquan point on your left foot 120 times with your right palm, and then tap it with your left palm. Press the Yongquan point on the right foot 120 times, with the appropriate intensity each time so that you feel slight swelling and pain. It can get rid of insomnia and fall asleep peacefully.

4. Lying Qigong Method

Lie on the right side, with a moderate pillow, the whole body is relaxed and natural, the eyes are closed, the tip of the tongue is on the roof of the mouth, and the mind is guarding the Dantian. Inhale slowly through the nostrils to expand the entire abdomen, and then exhale slowly through the nostrils until the entire abdomen contracts. If you persist for 2 weeks, your insomnia will usually be cured.

Recipe name: Qianyang Ningshen Decoction

Drugs: Nocturnal vine 30g, ripe jujube kernel 20g, Polygala 15g, Baiziren 20g, Poria 15g, Rehmannia glutinosa 20g, Scrophulariaceae 20g, 25g raw oyster, 30g raw ocher (ground), 10g Sichuan Lian, 20g raw keel.

Efficacy: Nourishes yin and subdues yang, clears away heat and calms the heart, improves intelligence and calms the mind.

Indications: upset and insomnia, palpitation, dry mouth and tongue, dizziness and tinnitus, irritability and heat in the hands and feet, red tongue with thin coating, slippery or stringy pulse.

Usage: decoction in water, 1 dose per day. Prescription name: Chutan Anmei Decoction

Drug: Bupleurum 10g, Pinellia ternata 10g, Dankuqin 12g, Zhi 10g green bark, 10g citrus aurantium, 6g southern star, 12g bamboo root, 10g gentian, 10g gardenia, 60g mother-of-pearl (drop first), 30g rhizome (drop first), 15g albizia bark, 30g nocturnal vine , Pueraria lobata 30g.

Efficacy: eliminates phlegm (invisible) and calms, relieves depression and soothes the liver, soothes the mind and relieves troubles.

Indications: Insomnia, irritability, chaotic dreams, headache and dizziness caused by seven emotions and six depressions, sentimentality, doubts and delusions, night wandering with fear, and unprovoked crying and joy. That is what modern medicine calls neurosis. Prescription name: Amber Albizia Julibrissin and White Peony Decoction

Drugs: 0.6g amber (grind into powder and drink), 9g Albizia Julibrissin flower, 9g white peony root.

Efficacy: Soothe the nerves and relieve depression, nourish blood and soften the liver.

Indications: insomnia and neurasthenia. Recipe name: Salvia miltiorrhiza and Zaoren decoction

Drug: 15g each of Salvia miltiorrhiza, raw dragon bone, raw oyster, Nocturna noctus, Albizia julibrissin bark, 10g each of fried date kernel and cypress kernel.

Indications: insomnia.

Preparation method: Soak the raw keel bones, raw oysters and other medicines in water for 30 minutes respectively, then fry the raw keel bones and raw oysters over fire for 30 minutes, then add the medicines and fry again, take 250ml of juice. Add 150 to 200 ml of water and decoct twice to obtain about 300 to 450 ml of medicinal liquid. Mix well.

Usage: 1 dose per day, divided into 2 times and taken warmly. Prescription name: Gao Zhen Wuyou Dan

Medicines: 60g raw rehmannia, 60g jujube kernel, 45g calcined magnet, 60g poria, 60g poria god, 10g coptis, 60g donkey-hide gelatin, 4 chicken roe yellows, 10g powdered amber, 60g anemarrhena , Chuanxiong 4.5g, Polygala 45g, licorice 10g.

Indications: insomnia.

Preparation method: Grind the medicine to a very fine powder, mix it with pig heart blood, refine the honey into pills, and use cinnabar as a coating. Each pill weighs 1.5g. Or decoction 1/5 to 1/4 of the above dosage in water.

Usage: Take 3 to 4 capsules every night with wick soup 2 hours before going to bed. If it is used as a decoction, take 1 dose a day, twice a day, take the first decoction at 3 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and take 2 decoctions before going to bed in the evening. Recipe name: Ziling Decoction

Drugs: 30g amethyst, 30g magnetite, 15g dodder, 15g wolfberry, 12g dangshen, 10g poria, 30g each wheat germ, 3g raw licorice, 15g yam.

Indications: insomnia.

Preparation method: Fry amethyst quartz and magnet for half an hour, soak the remaining medicine in water for half an hour and fry together. After boiling for 10 minutes, take the juice, mix the medicine residue with water, and fry for 20 to 30 minutes. Minutes, take the liquid, remove the residue, decoct each dose twice, and mix the juice obtained from the two decoctions.

Usage: 1 dose per day, take warmly 2 hours after meals, 2 to 3 times a day. Prescription name: Anshen Jian

Drugs: Fried tangerine peel 6g, Pinellia ternata 10g, Bile star 6g, Acorus 6g, Turmeric 10g, Zhu Fushen 15g, Lotus seed heart 6g, Dragon tooth 20g, Ziziphus jujube kernel 15g, 5g of licorice, 30g of malt, 10 jujubes, 6 to 10g of gold jewelry.

Indications: insomnia.

Preparation method: Thread the gold jewelry, tie it tightly, put it in a casserole, add 1000ml of water, bring it to a boil, then simmer for 1 hour.

Stir and soak the remaining medicines in water, then simmer over low heat. After boiling, simmer for 20 minutes. If the water is not enough, add a little to make 200ml.

Usage: 1 dose per day, once a day. Take warm before going to bed. After taking the medicine, wash your feet with warm water and go to bed.