The ancients said that "one night without lying down, one hundred days without recovery", which means that the loss caused by not sleeping for a day can be compensated by hundreds of days of replenishment. However, the fact now is that the army of insomnia is growing stronger. Insomnia seriously affects people's lives and quality of life, but also can cause or aggravate diseases, its harm is great, almost every disease is related to the occurrence, development, prognosis and outcome of every disease, which has an extremely serious negative impact on health and longevity, and should be paid great attention to.
Some of the more stubborn insomnias must take medication. A small number of people are born with poor sleep, even if there is no pressure, even if the lifestyle is healthy, but it is still easy to insomnia; most people are too stressed or disease-ridden, it is difficult to return to insomnia, or chronic diseases have insomnia, for these several cases generally to see a doctor, targeted with drug treatment, to reduce or cure insomnia is good.
How to seek medical advice? First of all, it is recommended to go to a Chinese medicine doctor. Because the Chinese medicine can adjust the internal organ meridians and yin and yang qi and blood as a whole, although the onset may be slower, the effect is certain.
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Proprietary chinese medicines
There are many proprietary Chinese medicines for the treatment of insomnia, the vast majority of which are tonic, not only effective, but also take for a long time with very few toxic side effects, especially no dependence, this advantage is incomparable to Western medicine sleeping pills.
According to the constitution, the corresponding proprietary Chinese medicine is selected. For example, the hot physique insomnia uses the Heavenly King Tonic Heart Dan, the cold constitution insomnia eats the yangxin pill, the qi depressed physique insomnia takes the Baizi yangxin pill or the happy pill, the qi and blood two deficiency physique insomnia is selected as the spleen pill or ginseng YangRong pill, the qi deficiency constitution or insomnia after overwork with American ginseng tea or tonic Pills, the damp and hot physique insomnia with Qing Heat Tranquilizer Capsules or Gentian Diarrhea Liver Pills. Regardless of the physique, you can eat compound jujube capsules or jujube capsules.
According to the dialectic, the corresponding proprietary Chinese medicine is selected. Chinese medicine talks about internal organ dialectics, such as renal insomnia, kidney yang deficiency people choose Jinkui kidney qi pills, kidney yin deficiency people choose Qiju Dihuang pills, kidney yin and yang deficiency people choose turtle deer kidney pills.
In daily life, it is also common to see insomnia caused by liver, spleen and kidney deficiency, and those who prefer heart, liver and kidney deficiency choose Shaodan, and those who prefer heart, spleen and kidney deficiency choose Tranquility Dingzhi Pills. In spleen-derived insomnia, those with two deficiencies of heart and spleen use gui spleen pills, and those with two deficiencies of qi and blood use heart pills, ten quan da supplement pills, ginseng Yang Rong pills, etc.
If it is hepatic insomnia, the liver is obviously damp and hot with gentian diarrhea liver pills, the liver depression and spleen deficiency use runaway pills, and the liver fire depressed people use diarrhea green pills.
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Decoction is taken internally
Huanglian Ejiao soup and sour jujube kernel soup are especially recommended, these two soups are very effective in the treatment of insomnia. Suitable for yin deficiency and heat, with heart trouble, can not lie down as the main symptom, used to treat modern urban people due to excessive worry, too much thought, too worried and caused by the heart of the fire caused by the upset and dreamy, oral insomnia, the effect is particularly good.
When using, one is that the amount of huanglian should be heavy, 10 grams per dose; the other is that each dose should be equipped with 2 raw egg yolks - only take raw egg yolks, stir well, and rush into the Chinese medicine decoction at about 70 ° C.
From the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Insomnia can be divided into five types
Let's take a look at how to classify and cure
1. Difficulty falling asleep
This type of insomnia is mostly hepatic depression and stagnation, which is manifested by chest swelling and pain, upset and less food. Mainly to relieve liver depression, with runaway pills, sour jujube kernel soup, or re-hegan mai jujube soup.
Usually, you can eat more millet, milk, oyster meat, cinnamon balls and other foods. At the same time, we must also pay attention to cultivating the spirit, reducing stress, and eliminating concerns. You can do some health exercises with it, and you can soak your feet with hot water before going to bed, so that the qi and blood can flow rapidly.
2. Sleepless type through the night
This kind of insomnia is mostly heart and liver fire, mostly caused by irritation and boredom, and is more common in women with menopause or premenstrual periods. It is manifested as irritability, red eyes and bitter mouth, dry stool, red tongue and yellow moss. Mainly based on clear heat and fire, with gentian diarrhea liver soup, Huanglian Ejiao soup, cinnabar Anshen pills.
For women with neurasthenia, palpitations, insomnia, dreams, and dark circles, you can take sour jujube kernel porridge at the same time: 30 grams of sour jujube kernels, 6 guiyuan, 30 grams of jujubes, and 60 grams of wheat.
3, old nightmares or dreaming all night
This kind of insomnia is mostly due to lack of camp qi and lack of courage. Manifested by lack of energy during the day, forgetfulness, lack of concentration, at night seems to be asleep, dizziness, panic and timidity.
Mainly to nourish the blood and calm the spirit, take an anshen Dingzhi pills, ginseng pine heart capsules, etc.; you can eat more blood replenishment, qi medicine, such as guiyuan, jujube, ejiao, angelica, ginseng and so on.
4. Wake up when you sleep
This kind of insomnia belongs to the spleen and stomach loss, which is manifested by unstable sleep at night, while feeling greasy, light mouth, anorexia, stool formation and so on. It is mainly based on stomach and spleen. Take Miao Xiang Powder and Ginseng Bai Shu Powder.
In life, the diet should not be raw and cold, less oil and less spicy, and you can often eat millet lotus seed lily porridge. The method is to boil millet, lotus seeds, and lilies into porridge with an appropriate amount of water, and the porridge that comes out is light, sweet, and can nourish the mind, which is a good product for poor sleep.
5. Wake up early, and it is difficult to sleep deeply after waking up
This kind of insomnia is mostly due to the lack of old age and blood, spleen and kidney deficiency. It is manifested by light sleep after waking up, confused until dawn.
If the partial spleen and kidney yang deficiency, afraid of cold stool, use yangxin soup; partial spleen and kidney qi yin two deficiency fire, can be accompanied by dry throat, dry mouth, night sweats, shortness of breath, etc., with less Dan, Baizi Yangxin Pills, Tianwang tonic heart Dan; at the same time, you can massage Neiguan, Shenmen, Houxi and other acupuncture points; usually eat more lotus, locust flowers, mung beans, coix kernels, rock sugar grapefruit, etc., can also be used American ginseng, Mai Dong plus a little rock sugar decoction soup instead of tea drinking.
It must be pointed out that for internal decoctions and the selection of medicinal foods for insomnia conditions, it is generally necessary to find a regular Chinese medicine doctor to prescribe in order to obtain the best treatment effect.
The author | Zeng Qingming, a famous chinese medicine doctor in Guangdong Province
Editor| Yang Chong, Ren Junfei, responsible editor| Zhang Xiuli
Source | The Beginning of Man magazine
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