Insomnia is a more common mental illness, will bring a lot of adverse effects on life, but also on the health of a greater harm, long-term insomnia is even more harmful, so what are the dietary treatments for long-term insomnia? What are the therapeutic gruel for treating insomnia? There are many dietary treatments for long-term insomnia, the following is a detailed understanding of the dietary treatment of insomnia.

1, insomnia dietary treatment porridge

1. Lily porridge

30 grams of lily, soaked in water for half a day, to remove the bitter taste, and then increase the rice 100 grams of water, water **** cooked to porridge, plus rock sugar, morning and evening service 1 time. Lily contains a small amount of starch, fat, protein and trace alkaloids, with heat and yin, moistening the lungs and tranquilize the efficacy of the treatment of neurasthenia in the elderly strong tonic food and medicine.

2. Lily red dates porridge

Lily 20 grams, 20 jujube, 50 grams of mung beans, 50 grams of rice. First boil mung beans until half-cooked, put lily, red dates and rice, then cook into porridge, serve. Once in the morning and evening.

3. two kernel porridge

Take 15 grams of cypress kernel, 20 grams of fried jujube, 100 grams of round-grained rice. The first cypress kernel, jujube kernel crushed, and round-grained rice with porridge, to be porridge will be cooked when adding an appropriate amount of honey, and then cook one or two boiled, before going to bed to eat. Cypress kernel has the function of nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind, jujube kernel nourishes the liver and gallbladder, nourishes the heart and spleen, and modern pharmacological research has confirmed that jujube kernel has the effect of suppressing the central nervous system and presenting sedative and hypnotic effects. This porridge is suitable for insomnia with dreams and easy to wake up, timid palpitations, belonging to the heart and gallbladder qi deficiency.

4. Gui Yuan Lotus Seed Porridge

Take Gui Yuan meat (longan meat 20 grams), lotus seed 30 grams, 100 grams of rice. Lotus seeds crushed, and cinnamon meat, rice cooked into porridge, two hours before going to bed. Gui Yuan meat nourishes the heart and spleen, nourishes blood and calms the mind, lotus seed nourishes the spleen, nourishes the heart and benefits the kidneys. This porridge is particularly suitable for those who suffer from insomnia with palpitations and forgetfulness, fatigue, loose and thin stools, and less color.

2, how to prevent insomnia

(1) pay attention to mental hygiene, cheerful and optimistic, open-minded, contentment, appropriate to retain the "childish", alternating parts of the body, cultivate a relaxation of hobbies.

(2) Avoid engaging in sports and recreational activities before going to bed, avoid excitatory emotional activities, do not watch nervous TV, do not drink strong tea and coffee, do not smoke, and avoid physiological interference with the factors of the night sleep, such as hunger, oversaturation of the excitement can not be resolved, and so on.

(3) The bed is only used for sleeping, don't work and think in bed.

(4) life should be regular, go to bed on time at night, reduce the night life, lying in bed for 20 to 30 minutes can not sleep should get up, read some tedious books and newspapers, to be weary when going to bed again; no matter how late to bed, the morning must get up on time to improve the sleep rate.