How important is a pillow? Whether it is traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine, or health care experts, they will tell you that pillows directly affect the quality of sleep! The Chinese people’s choice and production of “pillows” have been very exquisite since ancient times. Sima Xiangru once described queen Ajiao’s pillow and mat like this: “if you think it’s a pillow, you’ll find it fragrant.”. Among them, fenruo, orchid and Angelica dahurica are all herbs, which can dehumidify, repel insects and calm nerves. They are just examples of Chinese people who not only stress practicality, but also try to romanticize trivial life. Traditional Chinese medicine also incorporates various medicinal materials into pillows to make sleep more comfortable and help health. The role of pillows can be summed up as: helping us store more energy during sleep.
“eat” it! There are pathways for drug absorption.
The medicinal pillow belongs to the external treatment method, which is similar to the effective principle of plaster, moxibustion and smelling incense. The easiest thing to understand is the regulation of smell on the body. Not only traditional Chinese medicine attaches importance to it, but there are also many theories and practices of aromatherapy abroad.
Pillows are equivalent to “skin relatives”. In this way, “local administration” can be achieved. Modern medical theory shows that the skin and mucous membranes of the mouth and nose can also “take” drugs. The medicine in the medicine pillow will penetrate into the skin, penetrate into the mucosa of the mouth and nose, and slowly and evenly diffuse into the blood to achieve the effect of treatment and health preservation.
In contrast, the acupoints on the head, face and neck are bigger “diners”. There is external sensitivity amplification effect at acupoints, that is, small-dose stimulation of meridians can play a considerable therapeutic role. The head is the smart house, where the meridians are vertical and horizontal, the acupoints are dense, and the famous Ren and Du Meridians are connected. During sleep, the body temperature slowly and persistently stimulates the medicine to provide energy for the head acupoints.
In the interview, Lianzi also specially emphasized that when using the medicine pillow, because it feels comfortable and does not need to take medicine and injections, it will also get some positive psychological hints when using it. Even from the perspective of Western medicine, it will affirm that “psychological effects are also effects”. Psychological hints will naturally work faster and have better effects.
don’t use it indiscriminately! Medicine pillow is also medicine
Have you ever been choked by the strong fragrance? Laolaohengyan reminds people not to put fragrant flowers in rattan pillows to avoid penetrating the brain. Although magnolia, pergola, calamus and other fragrant drugs are not as strong as fragrant flowers and perfume, the power of pungent fragrance is large and the nature is scattered. You can’t put too many fragrant drugs in the pillow because you are greedy for fragrance, otherwise sleeping will become insomnia.
Wu Shangxian, who was good at external treatment in the Qing Dynasty, once said: “the reason for external treatment is the reason for internal treatment, and the medicine for external treatment is the medicine for internal treatment. What is different is the Fa’er.” What is contained in the medicine pillow is still based on the diagnosis and prescription theory of traditional Chinese medicine, so it needs to vary from person to person and change the pillow according to the syndrome.
If medication pillow is used to treat diseases, doctors should be asked to prescribe medicine as far as possible, and it should only be used during illness. If it is used for health preservation and physical fitness for a long time, it is necessary to select some herbal medicines with relatively gentle nature and taste according to your own understanding of your body.
Lian Zi, a neurologist at Beijing Xuanwu Hospital, said that all the medicine pillows she handmade were made of natural drugs, which were combined according to the formula of “monarch, minister, assistant and envoy” in traditional Chinese medicine. She stressed that health care medicine pillows have very strict requirements on medicinal materials. They must be good medicinal materials, the right proportion and the right way of use, so as to maximize the effect. The medicine pillows with different effects are made in different ways. For example, the medicine pillows for treating rhinitis must be crushed by spores to better act on the respiratory tract.
select! Not all of them are useful.
No matter what is filled in the pillow, the most basic function is to support the head. Therefore, the height, size, softness and other physical properties of a pillow directly determine whether it is qualified as a pillow.
Liu Jie, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, has been focusing on manipulation therapy and has a deep understanding of the static and dynamic aspects of the human body structure. When it comes to the best shape of a pillow, Liu Jie has always stressed that “people will move when they sleep.” Although there is a saying that you can sleep comfortably, high pillows are only suitable for lying on your side. This height will affect the blood supply of vertebral artery when lying on the back. The pillow is low, which will make the muscles tense when lying on the side. Therefore, for ordinary people, a shapeable pillow is the best.
The movements in sleep are not so clear. In comparison, a pillow that can easily change its shape with people’s movements is more suitable. Buckwheat skin pillow has this characteristic. The pillow should be longer and larger to ensure that there is sufficient space for the head to move when turning over. The texture is moderate in hardness and softness, and elasticity is unnecessary. Elasticity is to first apply a force to determine the strength of its recovery. The movement during sleep is uneven, and the rebound force of the pillow is uneven, which will increase the burden on the muscles.
The above is the advice for patients with non cervical spondylosis to use pillows, and how should patients with cervical spondylosis choose pillows? Dr. Liu Jie said: “comfort is the main factor in the attack period, and regulation is the main factor in the non attack period.” Patients in the non seizure period, especially young people, have good muscle elasticity and can have low pillow or no pillow. “When muscles feel tired, people will turn over and adjust. With so many activities, the tense muscles and tendons in the neck will relax instead, which is equivalent to stimulating people’s self-regulation mechanism.”
The medicine pillows made of lotus seeds, except for the cervical pillow, are not used for pillows, but for “holding”. Because its filler is natural cotton, it is more suitable for holding to ensure that the drug is absorbed through the mouth and nose. The medicine pillow used for holding can be small and easy to carry, so that you can take it on business or travel to ensure the curative effect.
Tips: drug pillows are consumables, with a general service life of half a year to one year. The medicine pillow should be dried frequently, and the medicine should be replaced and filled regularly.
medicine pillow, from luxury to lifestyle
After some drugs are processed, they are put into pillows, or directly made into pillows. Through the pillow during sleep every day, they can cure diseases or maintain health. This kind of external natural therapy has existed since ancient times, and has been passed down from generation to generation, and is becoming more and more popular and perfect. However, because of the high cost and exquisite workmanship, the earliest medicine pillows were absolutely private customized luxury goods. Those who can enjoy medicine pillows are either rich or expensive. Ordinary people can’t understand the efficacy of medicine pillows.
In the interview, Liu Jie introduced that there was a Ding Gong Xian pillow prescription in Zou Cunjian’s WaiZhi Shoushi prescription. The medicine pillow was made of wood, usually cypress or boxwood. First, make a pillow out of wood, then drill 128 holes in the pillow, and put 34 herbs such as Yizhiren and Qiang Huo into it. Continuous pillow use can help people keep fit and eliminate diseases.
This kind of pillow is not cheap, so it is never close to the people. It was not until the late Qing Dynasty that cloth pillows appeared in the medicinal pillows, which can be made of dozens of traditional Chinese medicines or just one flavor. This made it possible for the medicinal pillows to “fly into the homes of ordinary people”.
tips DIY medicine pillow at home can do this
1. If there is little material or poor workmanship, you can make the medicine pillow thinner and put it on the ordinary pillow.
2. Natural fabric with good air permeability should be selected as the pillow case for making medicine pillow. The material is fine and smooth, which is good for the skin and the volatilization of its own medicine.
3. Freshly collected drugs, such as mulberry leaves and chrysanthemums, should be used after being dried in the shade to avoid exposure to the sun.
4. After the medicine is processed, it must be disinfected and dried.
What’s in it? For whom? Open the medicine pillow and see the result
I don’t know what kind of pillow I should choose? Starting from your actual needs, you can choose the most suitable one. Take apart the most common drug pillows to analyze them one by one, so that you can understand what kind of drug pillow to choose.
get yourself a fresh chrysanthemum pillow if you are tired of getting hot and have a headache.
Women engaged in mental work often have migraines and poor sleep quality. It is not that you are too tired, but that “dryness” can not be removed. Chrysanthemum pillow can make your mind clear and greatly improve the quality of sleep. Li Shizhen said that chrysanthemum is both sweet and bitter in taste. It is peaceful in nature, can eliminate wind and heat, benefit the liver and Yin, and benefit the lungs and kidneys. Using chrysanthemum as a pillow can stop headache, remove annoyance and heat, nourish eyes and blood, and lighten body and prolong life. Crush the dried chrysanthemums into pillows. If there is a tendency of blood stagnation and blood heat, a small amount of chuanxiong, Danpi and Angelica dahurica can be added to the pillow.
for hearing and seeing, try Cassia pillow
Many women will feel “angry” at the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, not only with sore throat, but also with red eyes and “angry ears”. Don’t take medicine in a hurry. A cassia pillow can solve your problem. Cassia seed is salty and flat in smell, slightly cold in nature, and can replenish liver and essence. Cassia seed is small, and filling a pillow alone is very heavy. The compendium of Materia Medica contains a bright eye pillow, which uses “tartary buckwheat skin, black bean skin, mung bean skin, cassia seed and chrysanthemum as pillows to reach the old bright eyes”. The book does not specify the amount of each, but each flavor can have the same amount.
smelling can eliminate food and filth. Tea buckwheat pillow
When the autumn wind started, many people immediately cancelled their weight-loss plans and rushed to “stick autumn fat”, which also immediately caused indigestion and loss of appetite. Buckwheat itself has the function of digestion and decontamination, which can best reduce Qi and broaden intestines. For those with white and greasy tongue coating, add 200 grams of soaked Pu’er tea or Fujian rock tea, white mustard and Pinellia ternata to the pillow, grind and mix them to help dry dampness and remove phlegm.
I always feel “happy” and sleeping on straw pillows is better than buying bags
People who can’t sleep well always feel confused and unhappy. It’s better to change a good pillow to improve your mood by shopping. Cao Tingdong, the author of Lao Lao Heng Yan, most recommends a straw pillow. It’s a pity that it’s a little heavy to pack mung bean skin to clear away heat. Loading tea leaves can remove annoyance, but when you put a pillow on it, the tea leaves will become broken slag. Grass is the best, soft and comfortable, and does not hurt your ears. What is not perfect is that Tongcao used to be wooden, but now it is replaced by tongtuomu. Its function is still to induce heat and facilitate the water channel, but I wonder if it is as soft as before.
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