Can't sleep at night, can't get up during the day...
According to the "2021 Exercise and Sleep White Paper", more than 300 million people in the current Chinese have sleep disorders. Long-term sleep disorders can cause risk of more than 90 physical and mental illnesses, such as weight gain, headaches, anxiety, depression, premature aging, cancer, and more.
TCM's understanding of insomnia
Insomnia is extremely common in the clinic, and Chinese medicine calls insomnia sleeplessness, which refers to the frequent inability to get normal sleep. Mild cases have difficulty falling asleep, or sleep without sleep, wake up when sleeping, and can no longer fall asleep after waking up; severe cases sleep all night, and can be repeated for several years without healing, which has a serious impact on the physical and mental health of patients.
Chinese medicine believes that the causes of insomnia are seven emotions injured, dietary irregularities, overwork, etc., but the emotional injury is the most common, and the disease position is mainly based on the heart, liver, gallbladder, spleen and stomach, and the overall disease mechanism is the decline of yang and yin, and the loss of yin and yang.
Traditional medicine believes that sleepiness is a physiological phenomenon of the day and night operation of wei qi, so normal people should be full of energy during the day and sleep sweetly at night. When the yin and yang are in decline or imbalance, the pathological phenomenon of insomnia occurs. In addition, the external evil guests in the body, so that the internal organs qi machine disorder, wei qi must not enter the yin, yin and yang are out of harmony, can also insomnia.
TCM dialectical treatment of insomnia
Modern medicine for the treatment of insomnia generally uses sedative hypnotic drugs, but because such drugs have many adverse reactions, long-term use is easy to produce drug resistance, dependence, and damage to liver and kidney function, so it is not suitable for long-term use.
By adjusting the function of human organs, qi and blood, traditional Chinese medicine can often significantly improve the sleep status, and the treatment of insomnia has unique characteristics and advantages.
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Liver qi is depressed, patients are depressed, chest swelling pain, loss of appetite, female patients are often accompanied by breast swelling and pain.
Fang uses chai hu to loosen the liver and scatter addition and subtraction
bupleurum
02
Sputum fever internal disturbance, patients with insomnia and dreams, restlessness, hot body thirst, yellow tongue, pulse slip.
Fang is flavored with huanglian warm bile soup
03
Heart and spleen deficiency, patients see insomnia and dreams, easy to wake up and difficult to sleep, accompanied by heart palpitation, bloating and loose stools.
Party with gui spleen soup plus or minus
radix astragali
04
Insufficient liver blood, patients see difficulty sleeping at night, daytime dizziness, even dizziness, accompanied by pale lip nails, limb numbness and so on.
The square is flavored with sour date kernel soup
Other TCM treatments
1. Single-flavor medicine treatment
Reuse half summer (After blanching the half summer with pure honey, fry for 30 min, take 300 ml of juice and swallow slowly
2. Treatment of proprietary Chinese medicine
Proprietary Chinese medicine has the advantages of being portable, convenient to take, mild in medicinal effect, and small gastrointestinal irritation, and the compliance of patients treated with proprietary Chinese medicine is better, and can be taken with decoction.
Sleep capsules are suitable for patients with liver fire;
Brain capsules are suitable for patients with heart and spleen deficiency and insufficient liver blood.
3. Massage therapy
【Massage Treatment】
In the morning, the Yang Meridian Caves Baihui, Da Vertebra, Fengfu, Mingmen, and the Four Divine Cong Acupuncture Points are taken, and in the afternoon, the Yin Jing acupuncture Points Shenmen, Taixi, Sanyin Jiao, Taichong, and Yongquan Acupuncture Points are taken, all of which use the point kneading and pushing method, and 7 days is 1 course of treatment. After 1 to 3 courses of treatment, there was a significant improvement.
【Tuina Treatment】
Take Baihui, Touwei, Yintang, Shenting, Rate Valley, Si Shen Cong, Shoulder Well, and Shenmen as the main acupuncture points, and take the acupuncture points according to the clinical symptoms. Use one finger bullet, open the Heavenly Gate, divide the method, take the five sutras, sweep the scattering method, push the bridge bow, roll the method, point method, 1 time a day, 12 times for 1 course of treatment.
Traditional Chinese medicine for special types of insomnia
1. Intractable insomnia in the elderly
Re-replenish the deficiency, cure the qi and nourish the yin.
Square with sour jujube kernel soup combined with Tai pills plus or minus
tuckahoe
2. Insomnia in women's menopause
Readjust the liver, and cure the blood and soothe the liver.
Fang add or subtract with the soup of sour jujube seeds
3. Insomnia associated with spleen and stomach disease
Heavy and stomach, cure the spleen and stomach, nourish the blood and calm the heart.
Fang uses gui spleen soup with warm bile soup to add flavor
White magic
With the increasing social pressure, people are eating and sleeping more and more irregularly, resulting in insomnia patients showing youthfulness. Normal people should sleep at least 7.5 hours a day, if you maintain sleep for less than 6 hours for a long time, it is easy to lead to the onset of insomnia. In addition, it is equally important to ensure the quality of sleep, before going to sleep to deal with today's unfinished work, keep the mood relaxed, drink less than 100ml of hot milk, can help have a good sleep quality.