Compared to a decade ago or even a few decades ago, people in today's society have higher requirements for their own health quality, Panax ginseng, Cordyceps sinensis, fish oil and other kinds of health food endless. In the business overwhelming, dazzling publicity, people often appear "health care products selection phobia". In such a premise, some people more easily accepted, life in the common food become people's new favorite, such as honey, goji berries, or a variety of sexual taste and harmony of Chinese medicine and so on.
Milk stands out among the many competitors, and the familiar TV saying "a kilogram of milk a day makes a strong Chinese man" is y engraved in the minds of every Chinese person. Drinking milk has become one of the public's "healthy living habits".
Some people choose to drink milk before going to bed in order to get a better quality of sleep, but the problem with this practice is that the habit of drinking milk before going to bed is really good for your health? Here's how we analyze it from a Chinese medicine perspective.
Before talking about the intake of milk, we need to know that all food and water drinks, after the intake of the esophagus to enter the gastrointestinal tract, and then by the gastrointestinal tract to digestion and absorption, milk is no exception. China's traditional medicine will be attributed to this process in the theory of Chinese medicine spleen and stomach organs to complete. The spleen and stomach as the human body after the basic for the development of growth is essential.
"Su Wen Yu Ji true viscera theory" is described as, "the spleen for the lonely Tibetan, the central soil to the four evening", Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is located in the middle of the middle Jiao, in the middle of the body position, the five attributes belong to the earth, and the stomach and viscera as a cousin.
The physiological function of the spleen is mainly reflected in two aspects, one is "main transportation", the spleen is able to digest the diet, and then transferred to the heart and lungs. The digestion and absorption of dietary substances actually takes place in the stomach and small intestine. However, the stomach and small intestine must rely on the spleen's transporting and transforming functions in order to convert dietary matter into refined substances. At the same time, due to the spleen's function of transferring and dispersing essence, it is possible to "irrigate the four sides" to spread to all parts of the body.
Furthermore, the physiological function of the spleen is also reflected in the "Spleen masters blood", which means that the spleen qi can effectively protect the normal flow of blood in the blood veins, so that the blood does not overflow out of the veins. This depends on the solid protection of Yang Qi, the function of warmth, it can be said that the spleen in playing a normal physiological function is inseparable from Yang Qi.
Temperament is the main ascending, active, can be lifted to the upper part of the body, to ensure that the other organs are fixed position does not shift.
When the spleen's function of transporting and transforming water and grain is out of order, it is possible to cause abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and completion of the grain. Dysfunction of water transportation will cause water and dampness to stop inside, resulting in phlegm and edema. Dysfunction of the blood will cause the blood not to follow the flow of the veins, blood in the stool, blood in the urine, leakage, purple spots under the skin and other bleeding disorders.
According to Chinese medicine, milk and other dairy products yin and yang attributes attributed to yin, and cold products. The so-called "taiyin wet soil, get Yang began to transport" which mentioned the "taiyin wet soil" refers to the spleen, the spleen's normal physiological function is to need to yang qi warmth, promote the role of the realization . The milk as a cool drink for a long time improper drinking will contain the flow of yang qi in the body, resulting in the spleen and stomach transport function failure, qi dysfunction, which causes qi and blood stagnation, time will lead to lesions. The following categories of people are not suitable for drinking milk before bed.
Life is often easy after eating or even drinking water, this kind of person is not suitable for drinking milk before bed. Chinese medicine will be called the spleen and stomach of the day, is the transportation of water and grain essence of the viscera. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine "yin and yang should be like a great theory of the chapter pointed out:" clear gas in the lower, then born food and diarrhea; turbid gas in the upper, then born? Bloating" when the spleen does not rise, the stomach gas does not descend when the normal transport function of the internal organs will be out of order, can not normally exercise the function of ascending and descending turbidity, which leads to abdominal distension, diarrhea, finish the grain is not a series of symptoms, so easy to bloat people not suitable for drinking milk before bedtime.
This group of people should avoid eating cold, spicy, sweet and thick to protect the spleen and stomach. Because of the mild nature of white tea, sweet taste can enter the spleen, so you can usually drink some white tea with Chen Pi to promote the normal function of the spleen and stomach to recover. It is worth noting that Chenpi as a flavor of qi spleen Chinese medicine can not be taken for a long time, so as to avoid too much qi caused by qi deficiency.
Beijing Friendship Hospital director Zhang Zhonghao pointed out: children due to the gastrointestinal function is not yet fully developed, peristaltic function is poor, in the bedtime drinking milk will affect the digestive function.
It is recommended that children drink milk about 2 hours before bedtime, so that the esophageal reflux does not occur as soon as they lie down, and so that the digestive process is better.
In addition, both adults and children, the practice of drinking milk on an empty stomach in the morning is not recommended, the empty stomach will make the milk in the gastrointestinal tract to stay too short, is not conducive to the absorption of nutrients in the milk by the body.
People who usually drink milk before going to bed must pay attention to the point that before drinking milk should be heated, should not drink cold milk before going to bed.
Milk is a dairy product, and the purpose of heating it is not to sterilize it, because it undergoes a rigorous sterilization process and quality testing before it leaves the factory. The purpose of heating is to keep the temperature of the milk in the mouth roughly the same as the body's temperature, so that the milk is more easily accepted by the gastrointestinal tract. When cold milk enters the gastrointestinal tract, the lower temperature will make the gastrointestinal tract feel irritated and cause gastric upset.
In addition, the separation of fats and proteins after freezing can dull the flavor and affect the taste. Some people boil milk to drink, this practice is also not desirable. Studies have shown that boiling milk can cause amino acids to combine with fructose, and the resulting substance cannot be digested or absorbed by the body. The correct approach should be to heat the milk to 75 below drinking, this time the milk nutrients can be reasonably suitable for the human body to digest and absorb. (The above
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In addition. Because milk contains a large amount of calcium, there is a view that milk can play a role in calcium supplementation. However, the calcium belongs to the trace elements, and the human body's daily need of trace elements is not much, combined with the human body's own absorption, the milk can only be supplemented to a certain extent by the human body's growth and development of the calcium required.
It is worth noting that some people have a "drink more milk can grow taller" point of view. This view is narrow, only drink milk for human growth and development can only play a supporting role, to make their own taller usually still more useful exercise , promote the body metabolism, more to go outdoors in the sun is also to let the body to absorb more calcium elements of the key.
In summary, drinking milk before bed is good for getting a better night's sleep, and even better for staying healthy. However, we should pay attention to the right way to drink milk. This will ensure that our spleen and stomach function will not be damaged, and benefit from drinking milk.
In summary, drinking milk before going to bed is a very good habit, good for skin care, improve sleep, prevent disease and so on. But when you drink milk, you must keep in mind the precautions, bad drinking habits will be harmful to the health of the body.