Do you always wake up at the same time?
The Chinese organ clock could bring the explanation
Created: 2022-04-08Updated: 2022-04-08 2:59 PM
By: Juliane Gutmann
If you wake up at night and are bored, you sometimes reach for your smartphone.
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According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TMC), the organs are particularly active at certain times of the night.
Awake phases could accordingly indicate disturbances.
Awake between 3 and 4 a.m.?
This phenomenon is not uncommon.
Colloquially, there is also talk of the so-called “wolf hour”.
There are sleep experts who believe the cause to be a hormonal imbalance that can occur at this hour of the night.
But there are also other attempts at explanation for always the same nocturnal waking phase.
Traditional Chinese medicine, as a centuries-old form of healing, even uses it to diagnose diseases.
According to the Chinese organ clock, each organ is supplied with energy every few hours
- via the meridians, the energy channels in the body.
The focus of the holistic healing concept TCM is physical harmony: body, soul and environment should be brought into harmony through the right diet, acupressure, acupuncture, medicinal teas and movement therapy such as Qi Gong.
According to TCM, if you always wake up at the same time at night as exhausted and suffer from extreme tiredness during the day, this is a sign that the organ clock is not in balance.
As Professor Li Wu wrote in his book The Organ Clock.
Living in the Rhythm of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)",
stress symptoms, psychosomatic complaints and health problems such as obesity, high blood pressure or cardiovascular problems can be the result of such disharmony.
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Organ clock theory: Liver detoxifies the body at night between one and three o'clock
Many conventional physicians also see a sensible approach in the organ clock in TCM: "Theoretically, there is something to the organ clock," explains sleep medicine specialist Dr.
medical
Michael Feld in an interview with the magazine fitforfun: "Just not quite as strict as in the TCM teachings".
Traditional Chinese medicine sees the time between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. as the active “liver phase”.
According to Feld, the liver actually has a higher metabolism at night than during the day.
But when the liver best breaks down toxins at night "really depends on when you go to bed and what you ate beforehand," says Feld.
According to TCM, the time between three and five in the morning is attributed to the lungs.
During this time it should be cleaned.
Waking up at this time could indicate problems in the respiratory tract, according to TCM doctors.
According to sleep medicine specialist Feld, there are actually more
asthma attacks
in the early morning hours because the low cortisol levels narrow the bronchi, he explains in the fitforfun interview.
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