This is the practice of modern medicine. As for traditional Chinese medicine, we must first differentiate syndromes.
There are many syndromes that lead to insomnia, and the treatment methods vary greatly according to individual syndromes and symptoms.
For example, insomnia due to deficiency of both heart and spleen should be recuperated. Liver blood deficiency, it is necessary to nourish the liver and blood. In addition, insomnia caused by disharmony between heart and kidney, stagnation of liver qi and excessive phlegm should be relieved. Insomnia caused by stomach disharmony should be recuperated, and stagnation of liver qi should be relieved.
When Chinese medicine sees a doctor, it requires the root of the disease and seeks the cause. Therefore, to treat insomnia, we must first find out what the cause is, how to get it, and prescribe the right medicine, so that the effect is obvious.
For example, people's insomnia is not only insomnia, but also anxiety. They feel uneasy and anxious because of poor sleep. Therefore, on the basis of syndrome differentiation, combined with the psychology of modern people, we should add some anti-anxiety drugs, which are called anti-anxiety drugs in Chinese medicine.
Take insomnia caused by stagnation of liver qi as an example. As long as you are angry and anxious, it is easy to fall asleep. At the same time, you will feel a feeling of swelling and pain in your chest, hypochondriac ribs or lower abdomen, feel depressed, get angry easily, often sigh, or feel something in your throat, or press it under your flank, and there will be symptoms such as lumps.
This is because, when you encounter a trouble, if you are angry or depressed there, it will affect the liver. What about the liver? It controls the circulation of qi, which leads to the disorder of the circulation of qi in the liver, just like a traffic jam. If you are trapped there, you will be trapped there. If you are trapped here, you can sleep.
At this time, it is necessary to soothe the liver and relieve depression and let the qi flow smoothly, so that the liver will relax and the excretion will return to normal. The most commonly used method is Xiaoyao Powder.
How to explain Xiaoyaosan?
Relaxed, no worries, good mood, this is called freedom, combined with the above, on the basis of Xiaoyao San, add some herbs to dispel troubles, clear away heat and soothe the nerves.
Another common cause of insomnia is deficiency of both heart and spleen.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that excessive thinking and overwork will damage the heart and spleen, leading to deficiency of both hearts and spleen, but now the pressure of life is so great that basically everyone overthinks and overworks, which is why I say that deficiency of both hearts and spleen is one of the common causes of insomnia in life.
Spleen is the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Spleen deficiency, passive qi and blood biochemistry, blood can not nourish the heart, it will lead to anxiety. Can you still sleep?
Symptoms include: upset, insomnia, palpitation, shortness of breath, slow response, physical weakness, unwillingness to move, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, poor feeling after eating, rotten stool, shapeless and so on.
In this case, to regulate the heart and spleen, Guipi Decoction is commonly used.
In addition, if I think too much, my heart is always full and I can't sleep. According to Chinese medicine, this is called hurting your hard work. Everyone knows that your mind is in charge of God and everything. For example, if you think too much, your mind is full of things every day, which will hurt your efforts. If there is something wrong with the heart in charge of everything, how can you sleep?
Not only can't sleep, but also accompanied by palpitation, I want to lie quietly and slowly, but it doesn't work. There are also symptoms such as dizziness, dull face, decreased blood volume on my lips, and being particularly easily scared, forgetful, forgetting where to put things just after putting them down, and so on.
What needs to be done in this situation is to nourish the heart. The most commonly used is Tianwang Buxin Decoction. What should I add?
You can add some flowers, flowers make people feel happy, and everyone will feel happy when they see flowers. No one said that if you look sad after seeing flowers, add some roses and substitute flowers in the square to make people feel happy as a whole. It has the effects of eliminating depression and troubles, nourishing the heart and calming the nerves.
There is also insomnia caused by disharmony between heart and kidney, which I have said many times before. A heart without disharmony between heart and kidney belongs to the fire of five internal organs, and the kidney is water. Under normal circumstances, heart fire warms kidney water with kidney yang, making kidney water cold; Where's the kidney water? It helps the heart yang, so that the heart is not excited.
We call this state fire and water ji ji, and the balance of Yin and Yang is the guarantee of our normal life.
Once this balance is broken, there will be problems in the body, such as kidney water deficiency, that is, kidney yin deficiency. If there is no way to help the heart fire, the heart fire will become more and more excited, and symptoms such as vexation, night sweats, tinnitus, insomnia and dreaminess, dysfunction, and soreness of the waist and knees will appear.
Because of lack of water and fluid, my tongue is red and there is no water. In this case, you should nourish yin and reduce fire. Pay attention to nourishing yin and reducing fire here, that is, nourishing yin in the state of less kidney water and excessive heart fire!
The most commonly used prescription is Huanglian Ejiao decoction. Huanglian can reduce fire, Ejiao can nourish kidney water, and black-bone chicken can nourish yin and blood, and clear away deficiency and heat.
This is the disharmony between the heart and kidney, and there is another problem that many people will have-disharmony between the stomach leads to irritability.
If you feel uncomfortable in your stomach, it will affect your sleep and you can't sleep again and again. The reason for insomnia is that your stomach is strong and your spleen is weak, so you eat more, but your spleen is weak and your spleen is weak, so what you eat cannot be transported, absorbed and digested.
Those things that can't be digested will stagnate in the stomach, and when they stop, something will happen. The stomach will go down, but now if it doesn't go down, the stomach gas will go up. As long as you lie down and sleep, the contents in your stomach will come back, accompanied by chest tightness, snoring, acid reflux, nausea and vomiting. Can you still sleep?
So eat regularly and don't eat too much before going to bed.
The most commonly used soup in this situation is Banxia Xiexin Decoction.
Finally, let me remind you one more thing! Be sure to treat according to syndrome differentiation before taking medicine! Know your own situation before taking medicine, but don't cause insomnia because of disharmony between heart and kidney, just use the prescription of liver depression and qi stagnation.
Besides, everyone must eat regularly, exercise properly, relax and don't stay up late, so as to live a healthy life! # Health Decryption # # Traditional Chinese Medicine # # Let me popularize science #