In fall and winter, it is the best time for you to reserve your energy and keep vigor so as to achieve a healthy state including a pair of bright eyes. Practically speaking, to maintain good sleep at night should be the most effective way of getting refresh. As the Chinese saying goes, it is born in spring, grows in summer, harvest in autumn, and reserves in winter. So let’s see how to have sound sleep in a Chinese way.
It is believed by most of Chinese that in autumn and winter people who could not fall asleep could be easy to have good sleep if they have the following food in their daily life or before going to bed.
Milk: As we all know, in the milk there contains tryptophan which is the required amino acid of the body. If you have a cup of milk before you go to bed, the tryptophan in the milk is good enough to provide you a good night.
Walnut: As a kind of trophoblast impotence products, walnut is good for people who have Neurasthenia, insomnia, many dreams, bad memory, and low appetite. If these happen to you, you may have certain amount of walnut every morning and evening. Another way for good taste: you can pick several pieces of walnut and mix with black sesame; crush them into powder, and then you can have them more convenient—twice per day with 10 g each time. This not only helps to get a good sleep, but also supply enough nutrition to the eyes.
Jujube: Both the taste and character of jujube is sweet and modest, so it is good to preserve the abdomen and spleen. People who could not get a good sleep at night have two ways to eat jujube. First way: you can cook the jujube (about 30 to 60 g) with white sugar, and you have this soup before sleep. Second one: pick up 20 pieces of jujube and 7 sticks of onion, and cook them in hot water—drink the soup only.
Longans: the taste is sweet and the character is gentle without poison. Its meat is good for the heart and spleen, which is the best medicine to cure these symptoms such as having a bad sleep at night, always forgetting something important, and Neurasthenia. Have 9 g of longans’ meat and axillaris each and 15 g of Euryale. Cook them into soup which is drunk by you before going to bed. If you feel it is quite troublesome to cook soup, you may just have several pieces of fresh longans before sleep.
Vinegar: when you feel hard to fall asleep although you are very tired, you can take one spoon of vinegar and join it with warm water, and then you drink them up slowly. It is better for you to close your eyes at the same time when you are drinking. After a period, you could fall asleep immediately.
All these are Chinese way of getting a good sleep which provides sound rest for your eyes. You may have a try!