How to treat insomnia with hyperbaric oxygen combined with acupuncture?

  People spend 1/3 of their lives in sleep, and sound sleep is a wonderful enjoyment, a release of exhaustion and a soothing of the spirit. The quality of sleep is directly related to the health and quality of life. Difficulty in falling asleep, continuous sleep maintenance disorder, early awakening, difficulty in falling asleep again are the main manifestations of insomnia, and now more and more people have insomnia, the prevalence of which is as high as 10-20%, and insomnia has become one of the “persistent diseases” that plague modern urban people.  The old saying “not looking for the magic formula to find the sleeping formula”, when it comes to the treatment of insomnia, the first thing that comes to mind is to take sleeping pills, sleeping pills can speed up the body into sleep accurately, but can not change the quality of sleep, long-term use of sleeping pills will produce drug dependence, and is only the cure for the symptoms. Doctors from the hyperbaric oxygen department of Zhabei District Central Hospital have achieved good results in treating insomnia using a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, namely hyperbaric oxygen combined with acupuncture.  Ms. Yang is one of the beneficiaries of this special treatment. Ms. Yang, who is in her fifties, has been suffering from insomnia for more than three years and usually takes at least three sleeping pills every night before she can barely fall asleep. Mr. Qin is an organ cadre, usually work pressure, suffering from insomnia has been more than a year, and gradually appeared dizziness, chest tightness, palpitations and other secondary symptoms, the doctor every day in his hand on a needle, about 3 seconds immediately after the needle, and then into the hyperbaric chamber to receive hyperbaric oxygen therapy, only 5 days, insomnia, dizziness and other symptoms have been significantly improved. Mr. Qin was happy to say that he did not expect to see the effect of treatment for more than a year, but a small silver needle combined with easy oxygen intake can bring people back to health.  Hyperbaric oxygen is a green therapy for insomnia that has emerged in recent years. If a person has insomnia for a long time, the brain cannot get sufficient rest, which will inevitably increase oxygen consumption, and people will become excited when they are slightly deprived of oxygen, and the excitement will further aggravate insomnia, thus forming a vicious circle of insomnia-hypoxia-excitement-insomnia. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can increase the oxygen supply to the brain, thus enhancing cellular vitality, promoting the body’s metabolic renewal and restoring lost functions, normalizing the excitation and inhibition activities of the nerve center, relieving the symptoms of plant nerve dysfunction, effectively breaking the vicious cycle of insomnia-hypoxia-excitement-insomnia, and playing a unique therapeutic role in improving sleep.  Acupuncture therapy uses the huge meridian network of the human body to stimulate the body’s own repair mechanism through the stimulation of meridian points to regulate the balance of meridians and viscera and blood, so as to achieve the purpose of improving sleep. Acupuncture therapy is non-toxic, has few side effects, and is non-addictive and easily accepted by patients. The combination of acupuncture and hyperbaric oxygen therapy for insomnia can achieve twice the effect with half the effort. The specific method is that the patient first receives acupuncture treatment, and then enters a closed chamber in the shape of an airplane, and after pressurization, wears a special mask to inhale pure oxygen for 80 minutes under a high-pressure environment of 2 atmospheres, with a 5-10 minute break, and leaves the chamber after decompression at the end of oxygen inhalation. Each treatment takes about two hours, once a day, and 10 days is a course of treatment.