Q At night my face flushes and my chest feels tight, so I can't sleep well. How can I sleep more comfortably?
A Heat that worsens at night disrupts sleep, and lack of sleep creates a vicious cycle where heat rises more often the next day. Keeping the bedroom cool while warming the lower body, and reducing evening stimulants and upper-body heat, makes it easier to fall asleep.
Detailed Answer
In heat-cold imbalance, facial flushing and chest tightness often worsen at night, making it hard to fall asleep or causing frequent waking. Keeping the bedroom cool while keeping the feet and lower abdomen warm, and avoiding caffeine, alcohol, stimulating food, and bright screens before bed all help. Releasing daytime stress ahead of time is also a way to reduce nighttime heat.
Our Korean Medicine Clinic's Perspective
Korean medicine views shallow sleep as occurring when the heat that has risen fails to come back down at night. At Dongjedang, during the balancing stage, we calm the heat that has surged upward and replenish depleted fluids, helping heat descend at night and the body settle into deeper sleep.
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