There are many reasons for not sleeping well at night. As many people know, great mood swings and playing with mobile phones will affect the speed and quality of sleep, but bad pillow selection will also affect our sleep. Today, I will teach you what pillow to choose to sleep well and have a good sleep!
you must have a good pillow if you want to have a good sleep.
the height of the pillow has a great influence on the quality of sleep.
There is an old saying that "sit back and relax". Is that true?
the answer is no.
Too high pillow is the most unfavorable for cervical vertebra.
Under normal conditions, the whole spine of the human body keeps a certain physiological curvature. If the pillow is too high for bending, then the cervical vertebra, thoracic vertebra and lumbar vertebra are not on the same plane. After a long time, cervical spondylosis will occur.
similarly, the pillow should not be too low, otherwise it will cause dizziness and eyelid edema. There is a saying in "Lao Lao Heng Yan": "If you are high and low, you will lie on your side just at shoulder level, that is, you will feel comfortable on your back." Tell us a principle of standard measurement of pillow height, that is, when lying on your side, your head is flush with your shoulders, so as to ensure that the whole spine is on the same level and will not cause scoliosis.
the comfort of a pillow is closely related to its hardness.
A pillow that is too soft increases the contact area between the head and the pillow, so that the blood flow in the brain is not smooth due to compression, which reduces the quality of sleep and makes it easy to wake up when sleeping.
A pillow that is too hard will make the head feel uncomfortable, because the contact area between the head and the pillow is too small. When sleeping, it will consciously contract the muscles of the neck, thus making the muscles tense and unable to get a good rest. If you accidentally catch a cold, it will easily lead to stiff neck.
in addition, the pillow should have a certain length, not too short, and it must be ensured that the head will not fall off when the two sides turn over.
There is a related discussion in Old Man's Constant Words Pillow: "Old people need a long pillow when they sleep alone, so the opposite side will not stay in one place."
It can be seen that pillows for the elderly should be longer.
Generally speaking, people who are not ill can choose pillow fillers at will, and they can choose them at will according to their own preferences without affecting their sleep and cervical vertebrae. For sub-healthy or sick people, you can choose a medicated pillow, or add symptomatic drugs to buckwheat skin yourself. For example, patients with hypertension can choose chrysanthemum pillow and cassia seed pillow; Insomnia patients can choose lavender pillow, or add sedative drugs; For patients with headache, drugs such as Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, and Cortex Moutan can be added into the pillow core to dispel pathogenic wind, relieve exterior syndrome, clear heat and cool blood, and promote blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis.