Melatonin, is a health care preparation made of melatonin as the main raw material, so it does not belong to the medical insurance drugs. Therefore, you can not brush the medical insurance card. Mainly play a role in improving insomnia, dreamy, improve sleep quality, nutritional nerve and so on. Melatonin is a hormone secreted by the pineal gland of the human brain, which is in charge of the sleep rhythm of the human body. In general, the middle-aged and elderly body melatonin secretion is insufficient, affecting the sleep can be appropriate to supplement melatonin, taking melatonin tablets can effectively improve sleep, improve the quality of sleep.
Melatonin is one of the hormones secreted by the pineal gland. Melatonin belongs to indole heterocyclic compounds, its chemical name is N-acetyl-5 methoxytryptamine, also known as pineal gland hormone, melatonin, melatonin. After melatonin is synthesized and stored in the pineal gland, sympathetic excitation innervates the pineal cells to release melatonin. Melatonin secretion has a clear circadian rhythm, daytime secretion is inhibited, night secretion is active. Melatonin can inhibit the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, so that the gonadotropin-releasing hormone, gonadotropin, luteinizing hormone and follicular estrogen content are reduced, and can act directly on the gonads to reduce the content of androgens, estrogens, and progesterone. In addition, MT has powerful neuroendocrine immunomodulatory activity and free radical scavenging antioxidant capacity, and may become a new antiviral treatment method and approach.MT is ultimately metabolized in the liver, and damage to hepatocytes can affect the level of MT in the body.
What are the items included in the medical insurance reimbursement
The classification of medical insurance reimbursement and the items included are as follows:
1, general medical insurance. It mainly includes outpatient costs, medical costs, examination costs and so on.
2. Hospitalization insurance. It mainly covers daily hospitalization fee, cost of utilizing hospital equipment, surgery cost, medicine cost and so on.
3. Surgical insurance. Provides for all expenses incurred due to necessary surgery required by the patient.
4. Comprehensive medical insurance. Its cost coverage includes all costs of medical treatment and hospitalization and surgery, etc.
5, special disease insurance. Certain special diseases often bring the patient a catastrophic cost payment, the average resident family can hardly afford. Examples include cancer and heart disease. Provide coverage for policyholders of major diseases, can be a single, such as malignant tumors, or even malignant tumors in a certain number of cancers.
I hope the above can help you, if you have other questions please consult a professional lawyer.
Legal basis: "Interim Measures for the Administration of Basic Medical Insurance Drugs"
Article 7 of the drugs included in the national "Drug Catalog" shall be chemical drugs, biological products, proprietary Chinese medicines (ethnomedicines), and Chinese medicine tablets concocted in accordance with national standards that have been approved by the national drug regulatory authorities and have obtained a certificate of registration of the drug, and meet the basic conditions of being clinically necessary, safe and effective, and reasonably priced. . Support for eligible essential medicines to be included in the Drug List in accordance with the regulations.
Article 8 The following medicines are not included in the Drug List:
(1) medicines that mainly serve as tonic;
(2) medicines containing national precious and endangered wild animal and plant herbs;
(3) health care medicines;
(4) prophylactic vaccines and contraceptive medicines;
(5) medicines that mainly serve to enhance sexual function, treatment of hair loss, weight loss, beauty care, smoking cessation, alcohol cessation, etc.
(6) Drugs that cannot be charged separately due to their inclusion in diagnostic and therapeutic programs, etc.
(7) Alcohol preparations, tea preparations, all kinds of fruit-flavored preparations (except for children's medicines in special cases), oral containers and oral effervescent preparations (except for those under special provisions), etc.
(8) Other drugs The medicines that do not meet the requirements of the basic medical insurance.
(h) Other medicines that do not meet the requirements of basic medical insurance.