Insomnia is a common disease in life. It is mainly caused by improper living habits or abnormal mental state. It needs to be treated and recovered in time to avoid further damage to health. So how to treat insomnia with diet? What are some recipes that can relieve insomnia? There are many diets to treat insomnia. Let’s learn more about the specific methods below.

1. Diet management methods for insomnia

1. Supplement foods that can soothe the liver and reduce stress: such as green and sour fruits, such as lemons, kiwis, plums and green vegetables.

2. Appropriate distribution of three meals: a hearty and sufficient breakfast, a moderate lunch, and a light and small dinner. Regular eating can help sleep.

3. Calming scented tea: such as rose tea and lavender tea. If you want to enhance the sleep-promoting effect, you can add a small amount of jujube kernels with a soothing effect to drink together.

4. Eat a light diet and avoid high-fat meats and cakes.

5. Soaking your feet in hot water and drinking milk before going to bed can help you sleep.

6. If you wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall asleep again, eat 3-5 biscuits and drink a glass of wine to fall asleep.

7. When you are irritable and have difficulty falling asleep, drink a cup of sugar water to generate a large amount of serotonin and inhibit the cerebral cortex.

2. Recipe for soothing and nourishing porridge

(1) Lily porridge

Ingredients: 30 grams of lily, 60 grams of rice, and white sugar.

To prepare, wash the lily and rice separately, put them into a pot, add 1000 ml of water, put it on the fire and bring to a boil, cook it into porridge, add sugar and serve.

Efficacy Lily is both a good vegetable and a good medicine. It has the effects of clearing the heart and calming the nerves, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. It is widely used clinically for insomnia, palpitations, irritability and other symptoms of yin deficiency and blood deficiency, and has no side effects.

(2) Chestnut and longan porridge

Ingredients: 10 chestnuts (shelled and chopped), 15 grams of longan meat, and 50 grams of japonica rice.

To prepare the porridge over a slow fire, add sugar to taste when eating.

Efficacy is suitable for insomnia, heart palpitations, soreness and weakness of waist and knees caused by insufficient blood and kidney essence.

(3) Wild jujube kernel porridge

The raw materials are 15 grams of wild jujube kernel powder and 100 grams of japonica rice.

To make the porridge, first cook the porridge with japonica rice. When it is cooked, add the minced jujube kernels and then cook.

Usage: Take on an empty stomach.

Effects to calm the mind and calm the mind. Suitable for palpitations, insomnia, dreaminess, and upset.

(4) Polygala lotus powder porridge

The raw materials are 30 grams of polygala, 15 grams of lotus seeds, and 50 grams of japonica rice.

To make it, first soak the polygala root, remove the carpel and lotus seeds and grind them into powder, then cook the japonica rice porridge, add polygala root and lotus seed powder when cooked, and then boil for a while or two.

Usage as desired.

Effects: tonify the central nervous system, benefit the mind and will, and improve the ears and eyesight. Suitable for forgetfulness, restlessness, insomnia and other diseases.

(5) Millet porridge

The raw materials are 50 grams of millet and 1 egg.

To make the porridge, first boil the millet, extract the juice, then add the eggs and cook briefly.

Usage: Soak your feet in hot water before going to bed, drink this porridge, and then fall asleep.

Effects to nourish the mind and calm the mind. Used for insufficiency of heart, irritability and insomnia.

(6) Eight-treasure porridge

The raw materials are 6 grams each of Gorgon fruit, barley rice, white lentils, lotus meat, yam, red dates, longan, and lily, and 150 grams of rice.

To make, first decoct each medicine for 40 minutes, then add rice and continue to cook until it becomes porridge.

Usage: Mix sugar into meals and eat for several days.

Effects: Strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish qi and kidneys, nourish blood and calm the mind. It is suitable for insomnia, physical weakness, swelling, diarrhea, thirst, cough with less phlegm, etc.

(7) Erren porridge

The raw materials are 15 grams of cypress kernels, 20 grams of fried jujube kernels, and 100 grams of japonica rice.

To make the porridge, first mash the cypress kernels and date kernels, and cook the porridge with the japonica rice. When the porridge is ready, add an appropriate amount of honey, and then boil it.

Usage: Take before going to bed.

Efficacy: This porridge is suitable for people with insomnia, excessive dreams, easy awakening, timidity and palpitations, and those with heart and gallbladder qi deficiency.

(8) Bamboo Leak Porridge

The raw materials are 20 grams of bamboo leek juice and 100 grams of millet.

To make the porridge, boil the millet first, add the bamboo juice when it is cooked, and stir well.

Usage: Take it on an empty stomach in the morning.

Effects Bamboo juice (juice leached from fresh bamboo after roasting, available in pharmacies) has the effect of clearing away phlegm, eliminating annoyances, and calming convulsions. It is suitable for people with insomnia accompanied by heavy head, chest tightness and excessive phlegm, aversion to food and belching, and those suffering from phlegm-heat internal disturbance.

(9) Gentian porridge

The raw materials are 10 grams of gentian, 20 grams of bamboo leaves, and 100 grams of japonica rice.

To make it, first add water to boil gentian grass and bamboo leaves, replace the water with juice and add japonica rice to make porridge.

Usage: Take with breakfast.

Effects: The gentian grass in the porridge can purge the liver and reduce fire, and the bamboo leaves can clear away the heart and relieve troubles. It is suitable for people with insomnia, irritable temperament, red eyes and bitter mouth, yellow urine, constipation, and liver stagnation turning into fire.

3. What you need to know about misunderstandings about insomnia

1. Drinking alcohol to help you fall asleep

Although drinking alcohol may help you fall asleep in the short term, it is actually very unwise. The way to do it is to fall asleep, but it is easy to have difficulty breathing, restless sleep, stomachache, thirst, and wake up with a heavy head and confusion.

2. Reading before going to bed

If you forget about some novels with tense plots before going to bed, it will only make the brain more excited, and you will have endless dreams after falling asleep.

3. Take sleeping pills

Everyone is familiar with insomnia pills, maybe everyone has taken them. Although sleeping pills can play a role in insomnia, we cannot rely on sleeping pills to control sleep for a long time. Taking too much of any drug will have negative effects. If we become dependent on sleeping pills, we will be in a state of insomnia for a long time.

Insomnia experts point out: Sleeping pills should not be taken indiscriminately. Some people may go into shock after taking the pills. In severe cases, their lives may be in danger, so everyone must use them with caution!