According to the information, there are 200 million people in China who snore and 50 million of them may have sleep apnea. In other words, 25% of people who snore during sleep have sleep apnea syndrome. Snoring and sleep apnea syndrome both belong to the category of “snoring” and “snoring sleep” in Chinese medicine. As early as 1400 years ago, China’s Sui Dynasty Chao Yuanfang compiled “the origin of all diseases,” which has been categorized as an independent disease in the “snoring and sleep”. Here snoring should include simple snoring, snoring, sleep apnea syndrome and obstructive apnea syndrome. In the elderly, insufficient perfusion to the roaring center, vascular microembolism or decreased hormone levels, and relaxation of the soft palate can cause obstruction of the upper respiratory tract, resulting in snoring, which can lead to severe cases of apnea syndrome. Why does snoring occur? In Chinese medicine, it is called “gas disharmony”. The origin of all diseases – volume 31″ on snoring said: “snoring sleep, sleep in the throat and pharynx between the sound also. People throat, gas up and down also, gas and blood if adjusted, although sleep and wake up may wish to declare smooth; gas and there is not, then the impact of the laryngopharynx, and for sound.” Chinese medicine believes that snoring occurs because of phlegm obstruction of the lungs, the lung gas does not propagate, the gas is unfavorable, forced narrow pharynx and throat, and the air above and below the whoosh channel is out of the way due to the snoring. For the treatment of snoring, the authority of western medicine has concluded that “there is no medicine available to control snoring”. Indeed, at present, there is no western medicine in the world that can effectively stop snoring, whether it is to control simple snoring or to treat obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, there is no effective medicine available. Traditional surgery is traumatic, long, painful and dangerous, prone to many complications, and requires hospitalization for observation, which is intolerable and difficult for most patients to accept. In the clinic for the above pathological mechanisms, the use of traditional Chinese medicine for treatment, a number of patients have received more satisfactory results. For example, every night before going to bed with Chinese medicine oral, gargle or spray treatment, can significantly reduce the degree of snoring, reduce the number of pauses in breathing and time. Don’t ignore the danger of snoring The relationship between sleep apnea syndrome and snoring is as close as brothers. 90% of the people who snore tend to be hypoxic, and the other 10% of snorers will gradually develop sleep apnea syndrome as they grow older, so people often equate snoring with sleep apnea syndrome. Generally speaking, the louder the snoring, the greater the likelihood of apnea. Statistics show that on average, one out of four snorers will suffer from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, with a prevalence of 2% to 4%. The prevalence of sleep apnea is even higher, with about 1/5 of middle-aged and elderly men having mild sleep apnea, and about 7% of middle-aged and elderly men having more than moderate sleep apnea. Sleep apnea causes hypoxemia due to lack of oxygen in the tissues of the body, and at the same time leads to hypercapnia, resulting in multi-system functional damage. For snoring accompanied by breath-holding phenomenon of “breath-holding type snoring”, and easy to sleep during the day and other clinical symptoms, this type of snoring lurks in the human body can not be ignored, easy to cause hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, angina pectoris, arrhythmia, etc., and the elderly can appear dementia. Due to the lack of understanding of snoring and breath-holding for a long time, people mistakenly think that eating more and sleeping better is a sign of “health”, which has not been treated in time and even caused misdiagnosis. Therefore, patients and their families should pay enough attention to it. How to relieve and eliminate snoring For those who snore and hold their breath due to dampness-heat orifice closure and phlegm congestion, they can use An Gong Niuhuang Pill, Anti-snoring Soup, Red Grass Snoring Capsules, Snoring Lixiang (nasal drops, spray) and other medicines under the guidance of physicians. We should actively treat the original disease, pay attention to the presence of adenoid hypertrophy, tonsillitis or pharyngitis and other airway diseases. For snoring caused by nasal congestion or pharyngeal congestion and edema due to allergic rhinitis or pharyngitis, nasal drops or sprays such as furosemide and anti-snoring medicine can be used to constrict the blood vessels of the mucous membrane and improve the snoring and breath holding. In addition, it can also be used with stop snoring trick to solve the problem of thunderous snoring. It is important to quit smoking, and it is better not to drink alcohol Smoking is harmful to human health. Smoking can cause chronic pharyngitis, and inhibit the central nervous system, aggravate snoring breathlessness, especially during the daytime, easy to doze off, smoking “refreshing”, but aggravate the condition. Snoring elderly should quit smoking, after quitting smoking can reduce snoring and breath holding. Alcohol has an inhibitory effect on nerves, which can reduce the activity of upper airway dilatation muscle, thus promoting upper airway obstruction. Alcoholism can cause apnea in simple snorers and aggravate the condition of patients with sleep apnea syndrome. It has also been proven that snoring and breath-holding can be reduced or eliminated after abstaining from alcohol. Weight loss and weight reduction is a matter of exercise There is a strong correlation between weight and sleep apnea. When you gain weight and become obese, your neck becomes thicker and the fatty tissues in the neck and pharynx proliferate and relax, narrowing the airway. As more and more fat accumulates in the throat due to obesity, the airway may be blocked during sleep, and snoring and breath-holding are easy to occur. Furthermore, snoring and breathlessness, easy to doze off during the day, sit down to sleep, snoring while sleeping, less activity, less consumption, more obese, resulting in a vicious circle. Therefore, obese, overweight elderly to lose weight, adhere to the exercise can reduce weight. Clinical observation shows that overweight snorers can lose 10% of their body weight to be effective, and they can be cured after reaching the standard weight. Keep sleeping on the side to ensure smooth flow of gas The best way to eliminate snoring is to sleep on the side. The best way to eliminate snoring is to sleep on the side. Sleeping on the side reduces the fall of the tongue, and the loose muscles will tend to one side, which will not block the airway, so that the airflow through the nasopharynx will be smoother. With improved ventilation, snoring can be avoided. In order to help patients develop and maintain the sleeping position of sleeping on the side, here are two methods to choose from: 1, back sleeping ball method This is dedicated to patients who snore and hold their breath in the supine position and disappear in the side position. The device is placed behind the patient, when supine for a certain period of time, the sleeping ball can be automatically inflated, so that the patient becomes the side position, and then automatically deflate, and so on and so forth. 2.Glass ball method Put a child to play with the glass bullet loosely sewn in the pajama collar under the shoulder blade, to make it can slide left and right. When the snorer wants to turn around and lie on his back, he will press the glass ball on his back, thus immediately turning around and lying on his side or prone, so that the snoring will not appear or obviously reduce. Or in the back of pajamas sewn in the middle of a small pocket, which puts a child’s smallest size of the ball or tennis ball, so that snorers do not lie on their backs, but also can greatly reduce snoring. Smart use of compression stockings, sleep does not snore The American Journal of Whistling and Critical Care Medicine published a new study by Italian scholars, used to prevent venous thrombosis of compression stockings can effectively improve the symptoms of snoring. Compression stockings can regulate blood flow in the legs of patients, if the patient’s lower limbs during the day to deposit too much blood, at night when the blood flow back to the neck, it is easy to trigger sleep disorders. Researchers let snoring patients wake up every day to go to sleep before wearing compression stockings, a week after the results show that they night every hour the number of sleep apnea reduced by 36%. Traditional Chinese medicine experience to cure snoring Choose to have good effect of the experience of the effectiveness of the selection of one or two, I hope to be able to those who are still troubled by snoring friends to help. 1, the lung to eliminate snoring soup Ingredients: ephedra 8 grams, 15 grams of half lotus, 10 grams of Platycodon grandiflorus, 10 grams of black tea, 15 grams of ginkgo biloba, 15 grams of ramie root, 8 grams of licorice. Preparation: Decoction with water, 1 dose per day, 15 days for 1 course of treatment. Functions: To clear the throat, and to promote the flow of lung qi. 2, anti-snoring spirit Ingredients: ramie root 15 grams, burdock 10 grams, licorice 6 grams. Method: Decoct twice, combine the two decoctions, concentrate to 50 ml, add 60% alcohol precipitation, filter the supernatant, recover the alcohol, concentrate to 30 ml. Every night half an hour before going to bed to gargle, can be 30 ml of liquid divided into 2 ~ 3 times gargle after swallowing. When gargling, the head should be tilted back as much as possible so that the medicine can reach the throat. 14 days is 1 course of treatment. Functions: Promoting the lungs, relieving the pharynx, subduing swellings and detoxifying the toxin. 3.Ching Guo San Ingredients: 6 grams of green fruit, 6 grams of plum, hawthorn 6 grams. Preparation: Dry and grind the above medicines, and take appropriate amount of medicine each time to use as a spray on the throat; or decocted with water. Use the medicine 30 minutes before going to bed every night. Effects: This formula can clear the throat and improve the ventilation function of the airway. It can reduce snoring during sleep, and symptoms such as dry mouth and tongue caused by snoring will disappear. 4, Longqui decoction Ingredients: 10 grams of gentian herb, 10 grams of angelica. Method: Add 250 ml of water, soak for more than 1 hour, pour the fire (fire), switch to the fire (fire) decoction for 20 minutes, filter out the first decoction; pour out the broth, then add 150 ml of water, with the same method of simmering for the second time. Dosage: The juice of the two decoctions is mixed together and taken in 2 doses. One hour before going to bed, when going to sleep, take 1 time, take 3 consecutive nights effective. Efficacy: This formula in the gentian herb diarrhea liver and gallbladder fire, clear the liver meridian dampness and heat, treatment of sore throat diseases, and can pass the pass, the gas; with angelica blood to nourish the blood to activate the blood. 5, pepper drink Ingredients: pepper 5 ~ 10. Method: Every night before going to bed with gauze will be wrapped in peppercorns, put into a cup, punch into the boiling water to soak, wait for the water to cool down after serving the soup, even served for 5 days. Efficacy: the pepper contains the alkaloid of the inoceramides have ephedrine-like effect, can dilate coronary blood vessels, improve the tone of the whistle muscle, strengthen the crest of the medulla reflex excitability, so it is used for the treatment of snoring has a certain effect.