what to eat at night shift is good for your health?
1. Foods that nourish yin and moisten dryness
Chinese medicine believes that night belongs to yin, while sleeping can nourish yin. Staying up late and working at night is an act of damaging yin, and the body is prone to form a constitution of yin deficiency and excessive fire, with symptoms such as dry mouth, dry throat, constipation, irritability, insomnia, flushed cheeks, short and yellow urine, and oral ulcer. At this time, you should eat more foods with nourishing yin and moistening dryness, such as tremella, lily, pear, sugarcane, coix seed, almond, honey, persimmon, tofu, pumpkin, carrot and lotus root.
2. Food for clearing away liver heat and improving eyesight
At 1-3 o'clock in the evening, when the liver meridian is running, "blood belongs to the liver when people lie down". If you don't sleep at this time and work at night, then the blood can't enter the liver, and you can't carry out normal metabolism, which is easy to hurt the liver, resulting in dark complexion, bad temper, headache, dizziness, jealousy, eye pain, decreased vision and so on. At this time, you can eat some foods with the effects of clearing away liver heat and improving eyesight, such as Lycium barbarum, duck, snakehead, lotus root, water chestnut, banana, pear, mung bean, cucumber, loofah, lettuce, bitter gourd, water shield, persimmon and so on.
3. Foods for invigorating qi and blood
Staying up late at night for a long time, all organs of the body are not well rested, and toxins in the body cannot be decomposed and excreted through the liver meridian and large intestine in time, which can easily lead to poor qi and blood, dark circles, dull complexion, long spots and increased wrinkles. At this time, you can eat some foods that have the effect of nourishing qi and blood, such as Ejiao, longan, lotus root, black beans, black-bone chicken, fungus, sesame, red dates, pork liver, carrots and so on.
When is it good to get more sleep on the night shift
Different people actually have different hours on the night shift, so night shift people don't have to stick to a certain time period to get more sleep. It is suggested that after work, you should have a meal (about 5-7 minutes full), do a little cleaning, then go to sleep and get up after 7-8 hours' sleep, so that you can replenish nutrition immediately and help restore your body's energy. Be careful not to sleep too long, for it is easy to have a headache.
What kind of water to drink in the night shift
1. Lycium barbarum tea: It can nourish the liver and kidney, benefit the eyesight, and is suitable for people who have dry mouth, eye pain and tinnitus due to staying up late at night.
2. Mulberry leaf tea: It can clear lung, moisten dryness, clear liver and improve eyesight, and is also suitable for people who suffer from excessive internal heat, dry throat and decreased vision due to night shift.
3. Wild chrysanthemum tea: It can clear away heat and detoxify when entering the liver meridian, and is suitable for people with strong liver fire, dry throat, eye pain, dizziness and oral ulcer.
4. American ginseng: it can nourish yin, clear away deficiency fire, promote fluid production and invigorate qi, and is suitable for people who have symptoms of yin deficiency and excessive fire and qi deficiency and fatigue due to staying up late for work.
5. Ophiopogon japonicus: It has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, promoting fluid production and clearing heart fire, and is suitable for people who are upset, thirsty and constipated because of staying up late.
I can't sleep during the day after staying up late.
The brightness and darkness of natural light determine the honey in the pineal gland in the brain, so people will feel sleepy when it gets dark. During the day, because the light is too strong, the melatonin in the body can't reach the normal concentration and can't be completely transported to the brain and the whole body by the blood, which will lead to poor sleep quality. Even if you can fall asleep, you will still feel tired after getting up.