Whether or not it is useful to take Chinese medicine for poor sleep is mainly determined by the patient’s condition and the patient’s physical tolerance, and only symptomatic treatment can receive good results. Poor sleep mostly belongs to the category of “insomnia” in traditional Chinese medicine, and can be treated by traditional Chinese medicine. For example, if liver fire disturbs the heart, one can take Longdian Diarrhea Liver Soup; if phlegm heat disturbs the heart, one can take Huanglian Warm Gallbladder Soup, and so on.
1. Liver fire disturbing the heart: sleeplessness and dreams, or even sleeplessness all night long, impatience and irritability, accompanied by dizziness and head swelling, red eyes and tinnitus; red tongue with yellow fur, stringy and numberless pulse. You can take gentian diarrhea liver soup.
2. Phlegm-heat disturbing the heart: disturbed heart and sleeplessness (disturbed heat in the heart, insomnia), chest tightness and epigastric plumpness; red tongue, yellow moss, slippery pulse. You can take Huanglian Warm Gallbladder Soup.
3. Deficiency of heart and spleen: difficulty in falling asleep, palpitation and forgetfulness, fatigue (lack of spirit), low food intake, accompanied by dizziness and dizziness, and low color; pale tongue, thin moss, and thin and weak pulse. One can take Gui Spleen Soup.
4. Lack of communication between the heart and kidneys (heart fire and kidney yin deficiency, dysfunction of the physiological functions of the heart and kidneys): disturbed heart and insomnia, disturbed heart and heat (heat in the hearts of the hands and feet, and self-consciousness of disturbed heat in the heart and chest); red tongue with little moss, and thin and countless pulse (the pulse becomes narrower and finer and the rate accelerates). You can take Liufei Di Huang Wan combined with Jiaotai Wan.
5. Deficiency of heart and gallbladder qi: false vexation (vexation caused by deficiency heat in the body), insomnia, timid palpitation, accompanied by shortness of breath and spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, aggravated by sweating with slight movement); pale tongue, thin pulse. One can take Tranquilizing Spirit and Tingzhi Pill combined with Sour Zao Ren Tang.
It is recommended to select the prescription and use the medicine under the guidance of a physician to avoid delaying the condition.