In modern city, many people choose to work night shift to make more money. Night shifts can be harsh on your health. How can we reduce the effects of working overnight? There are 3 simple ways to reduce effects on a night shift so if you’re regularly burning the midnight oil, please use these tips for your self-care.
Using Chinese Medicine to Reduce Effects on a Night Shift
1. Stretching exercises
- Stretching the shoulders and neck – 【hand in hand behind the back】
The specific method:
Stand up, put your left hand behind your back over your left shoulder and your right hand behind your back against your lower back.
Stretch by moving your hands towards each other, holding on to one another if you can and hold the stretch for several seconds.
This exercise will mainly stretch your shoulder muscles. It is suitable for computer users, and relieves the stiffness and pain of the neck, shoulders and back. Hold for 20 seconds after clasping hands each time, and do 5 times on each side.
- Exercising legs and feet -【Golden Rooster Independence】
The specific method:
Close your eyes and stand on one foot and hold for more than 10 seconds, and then change your feet, and do it step by step until 1 minute. it shows that your body balance is very good.
Practicing this movement can induce blood downward and qi to return to the origin. It can better regulate our body’s sense of balance and enhance the functions of our liver, spleen, kidneys and other organs. It is also a defense a good way to treat diseases.
- Maintenance of liver qi – 【Massage Liver Meridian】
The specific method:
After warming up the two hands, use both hands and three fingers to slowly insert about 2 to 3 cm inward directly under the ribs in the middle of the breast. This place is the liver meridian of the human body, and pressing it can play a maintenance role.
2. Refresh your mind and drink herbal tea
【Lycium barbarum chrysanthemum tea】
Staying up all night for work is easy to hurt the yin and get angry. Wolfberry chrysanthemum tea can not only clear away heat but also nourish the liver. It is suitable for people who often stay up late.
【Red Jujube and Wolfberry Tea】
Red dates are effective to invigorate spleen-stomach, replenish Qi, and nourish blood and soothe the nerves. Wolfberry help nourish the liver and kidney, and improves eyesight. The tea is suitable for people who often stay up late and suffer from anemia.
Method: Take five or six red dates, appropriate amount of wolfberry, wash and soak for a while, put it in a pot and boil, simmer for 5 minutes on low heat, add a little rock sugar, and add a little honey after the tea cools down to below 40°C.
3. Eat light food to fill your stomach
Staying up late for work may easily damage the yin qi and cause virtual fire in the health, so you should eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten dryness. When you have to stay late at work, you should eat foods rich in B vitamins and protein for dinner, such as animal liver, lean meat, milk, fish, soy products, green vegetables, fruits, etc.
If you want to eat late at night, wholemeal bread and various porridges are recommended. Eat less high-sugar and high-salt sweets, biscuits and fast food. #TCM #acupuncture #acupuncturedubai #herbalmedicine
