After a busy day, feeling physically and mentally exhausted yet struggling with insomnia. Insomnia is often caused by excessive nervous excitement.
Location: The Jiuwei acupoint is located directly below the pit of the stomach, slightly below the lowest rib.
Benefits: Pressing this point alleviates fatigue and restlessness, promoting peaceful sleep.
Massage Method: Use both thumbs to apply pressure in a circular motion, repeating 60 times on each side.
Qimen Point
Staying up late is the enemy of beauty. From 11 PM to 1 AM is the liver's detoxification period. If you cannot sleep or have poor sleep quality during this time, it will affect the liver's detoxification, leading to excess liver fire. This can cause a sallow, rough complexion and even acne. Therefore, regulating the liver is key to making beauty sleep effective.
Location: On the chest, directly below the nipple, in the 6th intercostal space, 4 cun lateral to the anterior midline.
Benefits: Soothes the liver and nourishes blood, alleviates chest tightness and palpitations, promotes sleep.
Massage Method: Place both thumbs on the acupoints on either side, massage in a circular motion, 60 times on each side.
Juque Point
Nighttime is the optimal period for the large intestine to detoxify. Impaired detoxification can lead to constipation, diarrhea, and other gastrointestinal issues, directly impacting overall health and often causing skin problems. By aligning with the gut's natural rhythm, you can enjoy restful sleep while achieving beautifying effects.
Location: On the anterior midline, 6 cun above the navel.
Benefits: Stimulating this point relieves restlessness, promotes gastrointestinal motility, aids colon detoxification, and resolves various digestive issues.
Massage Method: Apply pressure with your thumb and perform circular massage 60 times.
Guanyuan Point
Frequent dreaming severely impacts sleep quality, depriving the body of adequate rest. Over time, this leads to depleted vital energy, organ dysfunction, physical weakness, and poor complexion. Only through restful, deep sleep can qi and blood circulate smoothly, restoring a radiant glow.
Location: Three finger-widths below the navel.
Benefits: Massaging this point alleviates symptoms of neurasthenia, insomnia, and fatigue caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis. It nourishes and repairs internal organs, enriches blood and qi, and promotes beauty.
Massage Technique: Overlap both hands to press this point, or perform circular massages around it for 60 consecutive times.
Sleep-Promoting Dietary Supplements
Beyond acupoint massage, cultivating healthy habits and consistent routines to enhance sleep quality, certain sleep-supporting foods can also be incorporated.
Bananas: Known as the "sleep fruit." Beyond balancing serotonin and melatonin levels, they contain magnesium, which helps relax muscles.
Chrysanthemum Tea: Recommended as a bedtime beverage due to its mild sedative effects, serving as a perfect natural soothing agent for tense nerves or bodies.
Warm milk: Contains tryptophan (an amino acid with calming effects) and calcium, which helps the brain utilize tryptophan effectively. It also evokes childhood memories—for infants, a warm bottle signaled "relax, all is well."