Blood-heat insomnia can be treated by general treatment (life adjustment) and medication (Rhinoceros Jiao Di Huang Tang).
1. General treatment: patients with blood-heat insomnia should, in their life, quit bad habits, such as smoking, alcoholism and so on. Diet should be light and keep oneself in a happy mood.
2. Medication: Rhinoceros horn Dihuang Tang is composed of rhinoceros horn, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix Paeoniae Alba and Dampy, which has the effect of clearing heat and cooling the blood to disperse blood stasis, and it can be used to treat insomnia, body heat and other symptoms caused by heat entering the blood (which belongs to the most in-depth stage or location of the disease among the four periods of the warm disease, Weiqi and Yingblood), and it is forbidden to use this medicine for patients with spleen and stomach weaknesses.
Specific treatments should be chosen under the guidance of a doctor. Proprietary Chinese medicines need to be used under the guidance of Chinese medicine practitioners’ diagnosis.