Chinese medicine believes that insomnia is mainly related to these two reasons:
The first is the heart, the heart is the main god, so insomnia and the heart are closely related; this is why many insomnia drugs use things that nourish the heart and calm the spirit.
Second, Chinese medicine has the saying that liver fire disturbs the gods, the heart and kidneys do not communicate, the stomach is not restless, so in addition to the heart, liver, spleen and kidneys, there is also a possibility of insomnia.
Through the manifestations of physical symptoms, Chinese medicine can make a preliminary distinction between the causes of insomnia:
First, find the cause of insomnia from the heart
1, the heart is too hot
Usually, I always feel irritable and unable to sink my heart, I am sleepy during the day, and after lying down, I am mentally refreshed, and my heart is always thinking wildly. As soon as you stick out your tongue, the tip of your tongue is particularly red, then this situation is the heart is full of fire. Commonly used medicine: Guide red pills (channeling the heart meridian evil fever).
2. Insufficient effort
Insufficient effort is the inability to nourish the heart. Such a person usually feels very tired, has no mental head, and his face is not particularly good-looking. A body tongue, the tip of the tongue, not so red, the color of the tongue is relatively light. Commonly used medicine: Jujube anshen capsule (blood nourishing and calming).
3. Yin yin deficiency
The yin deficiency of the heart is the reduction of the yin fluid in the heart. The main manifestation of such a person is that the palms and feet are warm, the heart is irritable, and when he falls asleep at night, his heart and chest sweat. Commonly used medicine: Tianwang Tonic Heart Dan (nourishing yin and clearing heat, nourishing blood and calming the spirit).
Second, find the cause of insomnia from the spleen
Chinese medicine talks about stomach disharmony and lying restless. If your spleen and stomach problems occur, it will also lead to insomnia problems, Chinese medicine called heart and spleen deficiency.
You usually always feel very tired, pale, and eat badly, eat too much stomach, stool is not formed, the tongue is sticking out is full of tooth marks, but also accompanied by sleep at night, dreaming a lot, etc., this is the heart and spleen two deficiencies. Commonly used medicines: Gui Spleen Pills (Qi tonic blood, healthy spleen and heart).
Third, find the cause of insomnia from the liver
1. Liver fire
If you usually always love to be angry, the temper is particularly large, especially impatient, and even angry will be angry, dizzy, swollen and painful, blood pressure is still rising, sleep at night, constipation, tongue red moss yellow, tongue on both sides of the red dots, etc., this is the liver fire is too strong. Commonly used medicines: diarrhea liver tranquilizer pills (clear liver tranquilizer), brain Liqing capsules (clear liver tranquilizer).
2. Hepatic depression and stagnation
Always have a bad mentality, love to be angry, sulk, usually encounter a little thing, the heart can not go, to the night to turn over and over and sleep. If you are mainly sulking, accompanied by abdominal distention pain, chest swelling pain, and thin white tongue, then this situation is hepatic depression stagnation. Commonly used drugs: Anle tablets (Shu liver anti-depression, tranquilizer), Anshen pills (liver relief, tranquility and tranquility).
Fourth, find the cause of insomnia from the kidneys
1. Heart and kidneys do not communicate
If you have the performance of kidney deficiency, such as memory loss, dizziness and tinnitus, waist and knee soreness, always get up at night, etc., and insomnia, sleeplessness, tongue redness, then it belongs to the heart and kidneys. Commonly used medicines: heart and mind pills (nourishing kidneys, nourishing the heart and calming the mind)
2, yin and fire
If you have weak waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, always night sweats when you sleep at night, irritability, hot hands and feet, can't sleep, easy to wake up early, red tongue and little jin, etc., then it belongs to the yin and fire. Commonly used medicines: Zhibai Dihuang Pill (Zhiyin Qing Heat), Liuwei Dihuang Pill (Zhiyin Beneficial Kidney)
Chinese medicine tips: different physical symptoms corresponding to the dialectical medication are different, you can make a reference, if there is no suitable for their own, or insomnia after use is still not improved, you can leave your question here, I will pay attention to dialectical answers.