According to traditional Chinese medicine, there are many acupoints in the head and neck of the human body, and they are the places closest to the mouth and nose. Therefore, the drug pillow can stimulate the acupoints and veins slowly and persistently or be absorbed through the mucosa of the mouth and nose to improve immunity. If you have tried the medicinal pillow, you will know that the saying “don’t look for immortals, look for sleeping prescriptions, and keep your health hidden in the pillow” is true.
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”. 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.
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. The health care medicine pillow has very strict requirements on medicinal materials. It must be good medicinal materials, the correct proportion and the appropriate use method 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 drug pillows 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. 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. 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.
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