Traditional Chinese medicine for insomnia

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Young and middle-aged people tend to have two extremes: mental workers' excessive Yang; those who live too loose life's excessive Yin. Once the regulation fails, they will cause insomnia; if life changes, negative emotions and pessimism make the cerebral cortex enter the Yin (inhibition) state for a long time, forming the body of excessive Yin, which is the cause of insomnia. Chinese medicine for insomnia.

Traditional Chinese medicine for insomnia

First: the heart and spleen blood deficiency type: generally due to excessive worry and fatigue, eating disorders, affect the function of the heart and spleen, often appear many dreams easy to wake up, palpitations forgetful, tasteless diet, light tongue, thin moss, weak pulse. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the treatment of heart and spleen blood deficiency type should nourish the heart and spleen, in order to generate Qi and blood. Therefore, Guipi Decoction is commonly used to soothe the mind and nourish the heart and blood. It is used for medicinal purposes such as semen Platycladus, Fructus Schisandrae, Fuzhen, Atractylodes Macrocephalae, semen Ziziphi Spinosae, Polygala, jujube, angelica, etc.

Second: Yin deficiency and fire hyperactivity type: the body of yin deficiency on weekdays shows hypermetabolism, lack of body fluid, often due to lack of drinking water and eating fried food and deficiency fire inflammation, appear upset, sore throat, five heart trouble heat, palpitation, forgetfulness, backache, tinnitus, red tongue, etc. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the treatment of this syndrome is to nourish kidney yin, nourish yin and reduce fire. The prescription is Tianwang Buxin decoction, which is used to treat Radix Scrophulariae, salvia miltiorrhizae, Polygala tenuifolia, Radix Ophiopogonis, semen persicae, semen ziziziphi Spinosae and Radix Rehmanniae.

Third: Heart Deficiency and timidity type: if the insomnia shows heart deficiency and palpitation, timidity, good at fear, easy to wake up during sleep, unable to sleep after waking up, light tongue and thin pulse. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is caused by heart deficiency and timidity. The therapeutic principles of Tonifying Qi and calming the nerves and calming the mind are as follows: Anshen Dingzhi Decoction and Suanzaoren Decoction, ginseng, Fushen, Yuanzhi, Shichangpu, Longchi, Suanzaoren, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, chuanxiong, licorice, etc.

matters needing attention

If you can bask in the sun during the day, you can absorb enough melanin from the sun. When the pineal gland at the bottom of the brain releases melanin at night, people will easily fall asleep. Therefore, proper sun exposure during the day and dim light in the bedroom at night can help eliminate the release of melanin and cause drowsiness.