How to cure severe insomnia

  Insomnia is a subjective experience of decreased sleep quality and duration due to difficulty falling asleep or sleeping consistently, which does not meet the needs of normal physiological and physical recovery and affects normal social functioning. Severe insomnia will affect brain function and requires medical intervention, and treatment methods include behavioral therapy and pharmacotherapy.  1.Behavioral therapy: mainly through psychological counseling to eliminate the concern and fear of insomnia, correct understanding of insomnia, the development of good sleep habits, prevention and correction of poor sleep behavior and concepts. Such as choosing a suitable sleeping environment, reducing the time in bed, getting up immediately when you can’t sleep, developing the habit of getting up at the same time every day no matter what time you sleep, reducing or eliminating daytime naps, etc. Choosing a suitable sleeping posture and relaxing the body by soaking the feet before bedtime will also play a supplementary role. In addition, avoid being too full or hungry before bedtime, reduce mood swings, and maintain a calm mind.  2.Medication: If behavioral treatment fails, medication can be used. Commonly used drugs are benzodiazepines (diazepam, eszopiclone, etc.) and non-benzodiazepines (such as pyrazolopyrimidines, GABA receptor agonists and their reuptake inhibitors, etc.) and other drugs that help sleep (such as antidepressants). However, it is important to pay attention to drug dependence and rebound from discontinuation, and to follow the principle of individualized and on-demand medication.  3, rub the sleeping, insomnia points of the human body has two points specifically to help sleep: one is the head of the sleeping point, one is the insomnia point on the bottom of the foot, every day adhere to the two points, to ensure that you sleep well, sleep well.  The AnSleep point, as the name implies, means that people sleep at ease: behind the earlobe. To find this point, we first need to find the cataract point and the Fengchi point. We can feel a protruding bone along the back of the earlobe, and the depression below the bone is the cataract point; the Fengchi point is at the back of the hairline, and the two muscles at the back of the neck are pushed upward until the point where they are not pushed is the Fengchi point, which is also two depressions. The sleeping point we are talking about is at the midpoint of the line between the cataract point and the Fengchi point. To operate, use the belly of your thumb to press and knead this point with light to heavy pressure until you get a localized soreness and swelling.  Insomnia point is on the bottom of the foot near the heel: we draw a straight line from the tip of the inner ankle to the tip of the outer ankle through the bottom of the foot, and the midpoint of this line is the insomnia point. At night, after washing your feet before going to bed, use your fist to knock on this part, you can quickly fall asleep.  4, hot water soaking feet to rub the Yongquan point Yongquan point in the front third of the foot herringbone depression: we should get into the habit of soaking feet with hot water before going to bed, soaking feet with hands to rub the feet back and forth Yongquan point. Yongquan point is the first point of the kidney meridian, often press can traffic heart and kidney, for insomnia caused by neurasthenia has a very good effect; and, the feet are known as the body’s “second heart”, often soak feet rub feet can also strengthen the body, prolong life!  5, Chinese medicine to help sleep Chinese medicine treatment using acupuncture: ear pressure, acupuncture point injection, massage, Chinese medicine preparations, oral tablets and other methods of evidence-based treatment to restore the normal “sleep a wake” cycle, the treatment of insomnia has a good effect. Because of its low adverse effects, long-lasting efficacy and no rebound after stopping medication, it also has considerable advantages in the treatment of insomnia.  To sum up, if you want to treat insomnia, you should first look for the cause of insomnia and the cause of the symptoms, so as to treat the cause, and then choose further medication for symptomatic treatment after the behavioral treatment is ineffective, and remember to follow the doctor’s prescription.