The pillow height: the higher is good or the lower is good.
Introduction.
Introduction: Choose the pillow suitable for oneself body and sleeping position, not only can help us feel at ease to sleep, still can prevent a variety of diseases that cause because of an unsuitable pillow, it is a good habit that improves sleep quality and preserves one's health again.
Ancient and modern gleanings: the ancients have said that "three Cun of longevity, four Cun without worry". Ancient works Lao Lao Heng Yang(Old constant saying) also said: "pillow... is designed to be the same size as the shoulder, allowing you to lie on your back and feel comfortable." Here points out pillow height are identical with shoulder thickness, for 6 ~ 9 centimeters, similar to the result of modern scientific research.
In various herbal classics and health care books of ancient times, it is pointed out that there are many advantages of herbal pillow for sleep and health care, such as "magnetic stone pillow" and "fitness ding gong pillow" and so on.
The pillow height: the higher is good or the lower is good.
As the saying goes, "never worry about if sleeping with a higher pillow" is well known, from which we can also find that the pillow plays an important role in ensuring a person's sleep quality. The right pillow will help relax the whole body, protect the neck and brain, promote and improve sleep, and prevent and cure diseases. The spinal column of the person has 4 physiological bend regions: cervical flexure, Chest curvature, waist curvature, sacral curvature, when the person sleeps, no matter lie supine(lie on one's back), side lie(lying on side), the head and bed have certain distance, this distance needs to fill with pillow, make cervical muscle relaxes, head blood supplies normal, lung breathes normally.
Better choose the pillow which supports cervical vertebra, with average dispersive head weight, low in the center, tall at around corners, "ingot shape" would be better. The normal person lies supine its pillow height is appropriate with 10 ~ 12 centimeters, if side lies the height should be equal to shoulder, or equal height as oneself fist. As for the hardness of the pillow depends on personal preference and sleeping position. The person that habitually sleeps on the side, suit to use the pillow with harder quality filling-material; For supine sleepers, use a moderately stiff pillow. If you prefer to sleep on your stomach, soft pillows are a better choice. Better choose pillow core with good permeability, because in the sleep the mouth nose and skin can excrete a foul gas, the oily dirt that sweat, the body secretes also can pollute pillow core. Otherwise, in a long period, the pillow core will turn the tide, cause the breed of bacterium, virus, make the person suffers from the respiratory tract or alimentary canal disease, skin disease. Pillows are filled with a variety of materials, including mung beans, straw, puffers, sponges, chrysanthemums, rice husks, etc., but need to pay attention to insect control. If in the case of no other physical diseases, often feel neck numbness acid swelling in the morning, and the pillow has lost elasticity, there are lumps, uneven phenomenon, and the stuffing has a damp smell, so you can consider changing the pillow. It is generally recommended changing your pillow every 2 years.
Health benefits of chooseing pillow with proper height.
✵1. Relax your body: too hard a pillow can also make your head muscles in a tense state, which can also affect your body muscles to relax. But if the height of the pillow is consistent with neck bend radian, soft and hard level is proper, can make human body vertebra still maintains such natural condition. The skin, muscles, ligaments, intervertebral discs and intervertebral joints of the neck, as well as the trachea, esophagus, nerves and other tissues of the neck, can be fully relaxed. The right pillow can help us sleep peacefully.
✵2. Prevent cervical spondylosis: if the pillow is too high or too low, it will be difficult to maintain the natural state of a physiological radian, so people will feel uncomfortable after a night's sleep, neck acid swelling, pain, weakness. Pillow is too high will cause changes in the cervical natural curve radian, the state of cervical lordosis originally disappeared, even become backward protruding, after long-term strained, neck muscles strain, cramps occur, result in intervertebral disc degeneration, resulting in the neck and shoulder pain, hand pins and needles, numbness in hand, head befuddled symptom, serious conditions will lead to neck stiffness, bone spur, cervical spondylosis, etc.
✵3. The blood flow balance: the pillow is too low will not only cause changes in the cervical natural bending state, also because the head neck vein valve, which results in lower head position for a long time, gravity causes the brain blood supply imbalance, venous blood backflow slowing, arterial blood relative increase, so will observe symptoms thirstily, snoring, neck pain, insomnia, be agitated. Pillows that are too soft can cause the head to lean back, which can stretch the neck and strain the throat muscles, making snoring worse.
✵Tips: The fragrance of the flower, can disturb sleep, the green plant can use up oxygen at night, both do not suit to be put in bedroom.
Introduction: Choose the pillow suitable for oneself body and sleeping position, not only can help us feel at ease to sleep, still can prevent a variety of diseases that cause because of an unsuitable pillow, it is a good habit that improves sleep quality and preserves one's health again.
As the saying goes, "never worry about if sleeping with a higher pillow" is well known, from which we can also find that the pillow plays an important role in ensuring a person's sleep quality. The right pillow will help relax the whole body, protect the neck and brain, promote and improve sleep, and prevent and cure diseases. The spinal column of the person has 4 physiological bend regions: cervical flexure, Chest curvature, waist curvature, sacral curvature, when the person sleeps, no matter lie supine(lie on one's back), side lie(lying on side), the head and bed have certain distance, this distance needs to fill with pillow, make cervical muscle relaxes, head blood supplies normal, lung breathes normally.
Better choose the pillow which supports cervical vertebra, with average dispersive head weight, low in the center, tall at around corners, "ingot shape" would be better. The normal person lies supine its pillow height is appropriate with 10 ~ 12 centimeters, if side lies the height should be equal to shoulder, or equal height as oneself fist. As for the hardness of the pillow depends on personal preference and sleeping position. The person that habitually sleeps on the side, suit to use the pillow with harder quality filling-material; For supine sleepers, use a moderately stiff pillow. If you prefer to sleep on your stomach, soft pillows are a better choice. Better choose pillow core with good permeability, because in the sleep the mouth nose and skin can excrete a foul gas, the oily dirt that sweat, the body secretes also can pollute pillow core. Otherwise, in a long period, the pillow core will turn the tide, cause the breed of bacterium, virus, make the person suffers from the respiratory tract or alimentary canal disease, skin disease. Pillows are filled with a variety of materials, including mung beans, straw, puffers, sponges, chrysanthemums, rice husks, etc., but need to pay attention to insect control. If in the case of no other physical diseases, often feel neck numbness acid swelling in the morning, and the pillow has lost elasticity, there are lumps, uneven phenomenon, and the stuffing has a damp smell, so you can consider changing the pillow. It is generally recommended changing your pillow every 2 years.
✵1. Relax your body: too hard a pillow can also make your head muscles in a tense state, which can also affect your body muscles to relax. But if the height of the pillow is consistent with neck bend radian, soft and hard level is proper, can make human body vertebra still maintains such natural condition. The skin, muscles, ligaments, intervertebral discs and intervertebral joints of the neck, as well as the trachea, esophagus, nerves and other tissues of the neck, can be fully relaxed. The right pillow can help us sleep peacefully.
