Poor sleep, as long as you have a little common sense of Chinese medicine, knows that it is because of "heart and kidney do not communicate", but this is only one of the types, and it cannot cover all sleep disorders. At present, the most common cause of insomnia in my personal clinic is liver depression, especially in young women.
I used Xiaoyaosan plus or minus to treat insomnia, it seems that there are few ordinary medicines, it is plain and bland, and I insist on conditioning, but the effect is very good.
There are several very important articles in the "Neijing", "If a person lies down, the blood will return to the liver", ...... "the flesh and blood, the god of man", ...... "Those who come and go with the gods are called the soul"......
This soul is not the soul of a ghost, but a kind of "spiritual classification" hidden in the liver, the so-called spleen hides the mind, the lungs hide the soul, the liver hides the soul, and the kidney hides the will.
Take the spleen and hidden intentions as an example, those who have uncertain "intentions", generally speaking, those who are not firm-willed, have no longevity in doing things, and are easy to give up halfway in what they do, and those who are anticlimactic and have a snake tail are mostly spleen deficiency. And those who are very determined to do things, insist on doing a certain thing, and have perseverance, most of them have a particularly gentle and strong spleen and stomach pulse. In clinical consultation, many information beyond the condition can be learned by taking the pulse, and if the "intention" is uncertain, if you carefully experience the pulse, you can sometimes analyze it.
If the liver does not hide the soul, the left guan pulse is usually scattered or soft compared to other pulses, especially at dusk. Since I often see patients at night, the pulse of such patients is especially noticeable and easy to feel. The liver soul is attached to the blood, the blood does not return to the liver, and the liver soul wanders and cannot enter the liver.
The pathogenesis of insomnia, many traditional Chinese medicine attributed to yang does not enter yin, this yang specifically, I personally think that it is the soul, and yin refers to blood, and the popular point is that the soul does not return to the liver. Therefore, you can carefully understand that many calming medicines have sour or astringent properties, such as sour jujube kernels, schisandra, keel, oysters, etc.
Understand this principle of traditional Chinese medicine, you will understand that traditional Chinese medicine treatment of insomnia, not without sour jujube kernels, this medicine is too expensive, completely flexible, I have almost not prescribed sour jujube kernels for half a year, relying on traditional Chinese medicine theoretical skills and experience accumulation to make innovative attempts.
However, in many cases, the soul wants to enter the liver and blood at night but cannot be reached, because the liver qi is stagnant, resulting in the meridians of the soul entering the liver are not smooth, and the soul cannot enter the liver and cannot sleep, or although it can sleep, the soul is flying and dreams are chaotic. At this time, use some methods to soothe the liver, give up the sour jujube kernels, schisandra chinensis, and other drugs that converge the qi meridians, but the effect is very good, and I have a little clinical experience.
This is what the Tao Te Ching says, "If you want to do it, you must fix it." If you want to be weak, you must strengthen it", if you want to rein in it, you must first expand it, and you who are smart will be able to understand this truth.