Long-term insomnia is very harmful to the body. Ma said that Chinese medicine has long known insomnia. Insomnia, or "insomnia", refers to a disease characterized by frequent lack of adequate sleep, difficulty in falling asleep, insufficient sleep time or deep sleep, and in severe cases, insomnia at night. Modern medicine believes that insomnia belongs to the category of neurasthenia or neurosis. Occasionally insomnia has little effect on human health, but it will affect the next day's life to a certain extent, such as feeling sleepy, upset, uncoordinated movements and so on. Long-term insomnia can lead to inattention, memory disorder, and also cause people's physical decline and immunity decline. Therefore, long-term insomnia needs treatment, so as not to cause more harm to the body.
Some people think that a long sleep every day is a sign of good physical function. Ma Fanghui said that it is usually enough for healthy adults to sleep for about 7 hours a day. Of course, some people may be full of energy after sleeping for six hours every day, while others have to sleep for eight hours to feel relaxed and happy. Therefore, sleeping well depends not only on whether it is difficult to fall asleep, but also on the quality and regularity of sleep.
Long-term insomnia makes the patient very painful. At present, the treatment of insomnia in western medicine is relatively simple, mainly taking sleeping AIDS. Chinese medicine will treat insomnia according to its etiology and pathogenesis. Ma introduced that insomnia can be simply divided into two types: deficiency and excess. "Those who are deficient make up for it, while those who are real vent it". Deficiency syndrome is more common in insomnia patients, accounting for about 80%; There is about 20% real fire. From the analysis of pathogenic factors, most insomnia is related to emotional disorders, improper diet, fatigue, physical weakness after illness and so on. Long-term irritability or hyperactivity of yang with yin deficiency and loss of yin and yang, and the location of the disease is closely related to the heart, kidney, liver, spleen and gallbladder. In many years of clinical practice, Ma summed up specific acupoints, selected Neiguan, Shenmen, Daling and other acupoints, and treated them with traditional Chinese medicine decoction, which not only solved the problem of insomnia, but also improved his physical condition in an all-round way.