Zeng Guofan, the leader of the Xiang army, said, “There is no other way to maintain health but to sleep and eat”, which is a very concise summary of health maintenance. Nowadays, people pay much attention to diet and health, but neglect their own sleep. One third of a person’s life is spent in sleep, without a healthy sleep, it is difficult to have a healthy body. For many people, insomnia is not considered as a disease, and they suffer from insomnia for years and years until they really can’t stand it anymore, and then they go to the hospital, and then the treatment is as difficult as you can imagine. Insomnia has the following main manifestations: 1. Difficulty in falling asleep. Many patients often tell me that when they have insomnia, they often can’t sleep all night, and when they see people around them sleeping soundly, she is anxious, but the more anxious she is, the more she can’t sleep. 2.Many dreams. Some patients often say, “It’s easy for me to fall asleep, but once I fall asleep, I have dreams, all kinds of dreams, and when I wake up the next day, the contents of my dreams are clear, and I feel drowsy, which seriously affects my work and life. 3. Easy to wake up after sleep. Some patients fall asleep easily, but the degree of sleep is not deep, and they can wake up at the slightest movement. 4.Can’t go back to sleep after waking up. Some patients have difficulty falling asleep again once they are awakened or woken up. The above symptoms can appear alone or in combination. Although the symptoms of insomnia are diverse, not many patients come to the clinic because of insomnia, and many of them are mentioned during the consultation and treatment of other diseases, and insomnia is also one of the symptoms of many diseases. It is for this reason that insomnia does not really attract the attention of doctors and patients. For doctors, they often prescribe patients with sedative and sleeping Western medicines, such as alprazolam and Xuloxane, to deal with them temporarily, while patients feel good as long as they can get a restful sleep or two. In fact, insomnia is the trigger for many diseases and is a very important health problem. For example, in hypertension, the blind use of antihypertensive drugs may not be effective for patients with insomnia, but after treatment for insomnia, the patient’s blood pressure may quickly return to normal, and insomnia is the real cause of elevated blood pressure. At present, the main western drugs for the treatment of insomnia are sedative sleeping pills and antidepressants. The effect of these two types of drugs for insomnia is relatively obvious and fast, but there is a big problem that long-term use is easy to form a dependence on the above drugs. In contrast, Chinese medicine for insomnia is more effective, has no toxic side effects, does not form drug dependence, is a truly green and healthy treatment. The main methods of Chinese medicine to treat insomnia are as follows: 1. Chinese medicine tonics are taken internally. This is the main method of treating insomnia. According to the principle of diagnosis and treatment in Chinese medicine, according to the patient’s symptoms, combined with the tongue and pulse, the corresponding treatment prescription is prescribed. This is one of the most common methods I use in clinical practice, and the treatment effect is more satisfactory. Many insomnia patients have completely disappeared their insomnia symptoms and resumed normal sleep after taking oral herbal tonics. Generally speaking, herbal tonics for insomnia can be effective in 3-5 doses, with obvious results in half a month, and the time to continue consolidating treatment often varies from person to person. 2. Chinese herbal footbath. Foot bath before bedtime, itself is conducive to improving insomnia, plus the addition of some Chinese medicine with calming effect in the foot bath water, such as salvia, sour date, dragon tooth, etc., the role of the treatment of insomnia is more obvious. 3, acupuncture therapy. Through acupuncture or moxibustion corresponding acupuncture points, can significantly improve sleep and treat insomnia. 4.Food therapy. According to their own physique, often eat some food with a calming effect, can also effectively improve the symptoms of insomnia. Common foods are milk, walnuts, red dates, cinnamon, lotus seeds, etc. 5, the treatment of insomnia of a single formula, experimental formula. Such as a single sour date decoction for insomnia. 6.Chinese patent medicine. Such as Tianwang Tonic Heart Dan, Niuhuang Qingxin Wan, Pai Zi Yang Xin Wan, etc. These drugs need to be taken under the guidance of a professional doctor. Ancient health practitioners in China have “not looking for immortal formula for sleep”, which shows how important sleep is for health. I hope that through lifestyle adjustments and appropriate medication, we can get a healthy body with adequate sleep and truly realize “my health is my master!”