Insomnia is a disaster for many people. Tossing and turning at night, unable to sleep at all, waking up the next day confused, distraught, headache and no mind as if he had lost his soul...
Insomnia should be a very common problem in modern society, I once read a survey record, 27% of people in our country have sleep disorders, that is, 1 in every 4 people will have insomnia. In the actual treatment, if the symptoms are not counted, the insomnia population is indeed super large, as if no matter what kind of disease, it cannot get rid of the curse of insomnia.
Today, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, I will analyze the causes of insomnia with you.
What's wrong with insomnia?
In the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, insomnia is defined as "blind", "not sleeping", "not lying down" and so on.
The blood of the human body is born in the spleen, stored in the liver, and runs in the heart. If the liver does not hide blood, then the blood is deficient, the heart and blood deficiency is not guarded, it will not be easy to fall asleep, or it is easy to wake up after falling asleep, dreaming, memory loss, palpitations, pale and dull, dizzy, fatigue, dry eyes, blurred vision and other symptoms.
If the liver blood is insufficient, the liver cannot drain the qi and blood normally, the qi and blood are out of balance, and the strength of the liver yin and the liver yang are different. Blood can not nourish the liver, liver qi rises too much, the liver fire will also be inflamed, resulting in uneasiness, causing insomnia.
In addition, sleep has a certain biorhythmity. Sufficient liver blood can regulate the blood flow and function of various organs and organs, thereby ensuring the quality of sleep; damage to the five zhi, work and leisure disorders will lead to insufficient liver blood, thereby breaking people's biorhythms and leading to insomnia.
In short, no matter what kind of cause of insomnia, it is inseparable from "insufficient liver blood", so it is inseparable from the conditioning of symptoms such as difficulty falling asleep, waking up in the middle of the night, insomnia and dreams, etc., which are inseparable from the conditioning of liver blood.
The first party of Chinese medicine to nourish liver and blood - siwu soup
Siwu Tang, from the late Tang Dynasty Lin Daoren's "Immortal Teaching Wound Continued Secret Recipe", Fang as its name suggests, only four flavors of Chinese medicine: cooked land, angelica, white peony, Sichuan root. All the evidences treated were caused by insufficient liver storage and blood stagnation.
Fang Zhong cooked for the jun medicine, warm and sweet, for the yin tonic blood, kidney filling of the preferred product, sperm blood homology, sperm blood, blood can produce sperm, sperm blood mutual, so it can also greatly replenish liver blood.
Angelica for the medicine, angelica tonic blood, supplement or heart and liver blood, and angelica set to supplement in one, blood deficiency can produce new blood, blood stasis is stasis, supplement without stagnation, through without injury, and has the function of moisturizing and slippery intestines.
White peony is an adjuvant, yin and liver, solid yin and antiperspiration, can diarrhea liver urgency, soft liver rigidity, soothing pain relief, for soft liver medicine, can make the liver calm down, but also can replenish liver blood. White peony can make up for it, not only to replenish the blood, but also to collect the blood of the demenstructions.
Chuanqi is a medicine, the upward leader can disperse the wind and the trick, the downward blood sea can activate the blood and dispel stasis, and the middle line liver qi can open the depression and scatter the knots, which is the first qi medicine in the blood, which has the effect of activating blood to dispel stasis and relieve pain.
The four medicines are matched, with angelica to replenish blood into the heart, liver, spleen of the sutra, cooked to replenish blood and nourish the sperm, Sichuan root into the blood branch blood qi, so that the qi and blood and smooth; peony medicine nourish blood soft liver, yin tone rush. The nourishment of the earth and peony can be returned to the land and the hard work of the root, then the blood is quickly generated without the disadvantage of stagnation; the hard work of the return and the root, and the nourishment of the land and the peony, then the blood line is stagnant and there is no worry about dryness. The four medicines are together, to replenish blood without stagnating blood, to carry out blood without breaking blood, to make up for the scattering, to scatter in the collection, to make up for the use of both, can make the liver have some hiding, camp blood and adjustment, then difficult to fall asleep, easy to wake up in the middle of the night, insomnia and dreams and other symptoms are eliminated.
This remedy is indicated for insomnia patients with the following symptoms
Liver blood is insufficient, can not be proud of the head, so it will be pale and yellow, dull and blue, poor memory, and mental trance.
Liver main tendon, insufficient liver blood, muscle loss, muscle activity is sluggish, limb numbness, tremor, cramping, easy to sprain, etc.; claw nails for the tendons, liver blood is insufficient, then the claw nails are not honorable, there will be rough texture or white spots on the nails, nails are dull.
The liver is open to the eye, the eyes are lost, so there will be dry eyes, blurred vision, unfocused eyes, dry eyes, decreased vision, tears in the wind, etc.; the liver fluid is tears, and insufficient liver blood will reduce the secretion of tears.
Liver main drainage has the functions of dredging up and unclogging the whole body qi machine, promoting the infusion of sperm and blood, controlling the rise and fall of spleen and stomach qi and the secretion and excretion of bile, and regulating emotions. Insufficient liver blood, there will be irritability, headache and irritability, restlessness, night dreams easy to wake up, palpitations and dizziness, spleen and stomach weakness, indigestion, abdominal distension, diarrhea, dry mouth and other symptoms.
Women take the liver as a congenital, the liver blood is insufficient, the blood sea is empty, so the menstrual volume is small, the color is light, and even the drenching is inexhaustible, and there is amenorrhea.
Clinical use
The use of this prescription can be flexible according to the specific condition, such as blood deficiency, cooked land, white peony, angelica dosage should be large, Sichuan root can be used less or not; blood stagnation, then reuse angelica, cooked land, white peony dosage discretion; both blood stasis, red peony easy white peony, and then add peach kernels, safflower; bleeding non-stop, mugwort, ejiao; blood deficiency and cold, add cannon ginger, cinnamon; blood deficiency and heat, add skullcap, danpi; concurrent qi deficiency, add party ginseng, astragalus; concurrently stagnant, add incense, Yan hu.
Therapeutic range of siwu decoction
Siwu soup is not only a common remedy for insomnia, but also a basic prescription for the treatment of various blood diseases, so in the clinic, I often add and subtract cuts to treat women's menstrual irregularities, dysmenorrhea, luteal function, dysfunctional uterine bleeding and other diseases, but also used to treat neurological headaches, frozen shoulder, urticaria, allergic rhinitis and other diseases, the effect is good.