It is not advisable to use alcohol to help sleep

Insomnia is a common condition. Some people think that drinking before bed can help sleep. According to reports, about 40% of the many patients with insomnia in the United States often rely on drinking to promote sleep. This practice is actually very harmful and has caused concern among medical professionals.

It is not advisable to use alcohol to help sleep. This is because drinking alcohol can temporarily inhibit the activity of the brain's central nervous system and accelerate sleep. However, the sleep caused by drinking is completely different from normal physiological sleep. The brain activity after drinking is not resting, even More active than when not asleep, therefore, people who wake up after drinking often feel dizziness, brain swelling, headaches and other discomfort.Drinking often to sleep at night may also lead to alcoholic psychosis, neuritis and liver diseases, etc. Chinese medicine believes that the human circadian rhythm must be consistent with changes in the yin and yang during the day and night. It is yang during the day and yin during the night, and the wine is sexually warm and sexually active. The main body of the night is quiet, and when the person falls asleep, it is mainly static. To be quiet outside, but also within the quiet, at night drinking is bound to disturb the sun, Yang moving is yin is not safe, resulting in the body's blood disorders, internal organs imbalance of yin and yang. Drinking before going to bed is also the most likely to cause "gastric discord," the so-called " Stomach disharmony is disturbed at night, which not only affects the gastrointestinal digestive function, but also affects the quality of sleep, resulting in poor rest, leading to a lack of energy and over time, causing many harm to the human body.

Modern medicine also believes that night drinking is harmful. The wine contains many harmful substances such as methanol, fusel oil, cyanide, and lead. After these substances enter the human body, they must rely on the liver's detoxification function to be excreted. During the day, the metabolism of the human body is prosperous. Toxins in wine are relatively easy to be excreted (such as from sweat and urine), but after drinking at night to sleep, metabolism slows down, liver detoxification function weakens accordingly, and harmful substances are easy to accumulate, so it is extremely unhealthy for health. Therefore, those who suffer from insomnia should not use alcohol to help sleep and should actively seek out the cause to obtain the correct treatment. Before going to sleep at night, healthy people should not sip at the table. Otherwise, it will also damage the body.

Posted on May 14, 2018