Chinese medical care for insomnia

  With the development of economy, people pay more and more attention to the quality of life, and sleep disorder is an important factor affecting people’s quality of life. According to statistics, global sleep survey shows that 45.4% of Chinese people have insomnia problem.  In layman’s terms, the intersection of yin and yang leads to sleep, which is the best way for the body to rest fully and regain strength and energy. During the daytime, yang is outside, at night yang enters, then sleep, and in the morning yang is strong and back outside, then sleep and wake up, when this intersection process has a problem, sleep problems will occur. We briefly introduce the performance of insomnia and care: 1, the heart and kidney do not intersect Chinese medicine believes that the heart is the main fire, the kidney is the main water, the heart should be down to warm the kidney water, the kidney water should be up to receive the heart fire, which is called water and fire both, that is, the heart and kidney intersect, the important way of this intersection process during sleep. When the kidney water is deficient in the lower part of the body and the heart fire is hyperactive in the upper part of the body, there is a lack of water and fire, and the yin and yang do not intersect and insomnia occurs. There are many causes of heart-kidney non-intercourse, such as stressful and tiring work, too much thinking, and overwork. The symptoms of insomnia are mainly difficulty in falling asleep, even if you are very tired and sleepy, you can still toss and turn and wake up early, usually accompanied by symptoms such as distress, fatigue, dry mouth, mouth sores, heat in the heart of the hands and feet, and weakness in the waist and knees.  If you have insomnia like this, you should pay attention to nourishing your heart and kidneys. How to nourish the heart and kidneys? To do: to save the house, slow tension. We all know that room labor hurts the kidneys, room labor mainly damage the kidney essence, the essence is not enough so can not fill the yin liquid, abstain from sexual intercourse is to protect the source of yin liquid, is the most important to nurture the kidneys; and whether it is work tension or emotional excitement, will lead to fire, heart fire on the inflammation, insomnia, so relieve tension, can relieve insomnia symptoms.  2, excessive thinking Due to sadness, encounter with annoying things and other reasons, resulting in excessive thinking. Thinking hurts the spleen, and the spleen is responsible for transportation and transformation. Excessive thinking will lead to abnormal transportation and transformation of the spleen, which is mainly responsible for the transformation of qi and blood, and abnormal transportation and transformation will lead to no source of transformation of heart and blood, and eventually heart and spleen insomnia with deficiency of heart and blood and deficiency of spleen. The main manifestations are: easy to wake up and not easy to fall back to sleep after waking up, weakness, reluctance to talk, not thinking about eating and drinking, panic attacks, irritability and dreaminess.  Ginseng and Spleen Pill is the main drug for treating insomnia with deficiency of both heart and spleen, and Sweet Dream Oral Liquid and Blood Mansion and Blood Stasis Oral Liquid are also effective.  3, stomach disharmony Specifically, the so-called “stomach disharmony” caused by insomnia, because eat more full, eat less hunger, eat bad abdominal pain and other factors related to diet, resulting in the stomach of the decomposition of water and grain dysfunction, thus affecting sleep. It mostly manifests as: stomach discomfort, stomach pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, heartburn and panic. This condition is usually regulating diet and treating according to the situation. It is more common in children, especially injured food, appearing restless sleep and crying, etc. Giving stomach-healthy and eliminating food tablets or pediatric Zhi Bao Wan will play a good role.  4.Other insomnia Other conditions, such as disease, wind and cold, phlegm and dampness, blood stasis and many other factors can lead to insomnia, symptomatic treatment is necessary, rather than simple treatment with sleeping pills.  5.Non-pharmacological treatment Here we briefly introduce a few methods to correct insomnia.  The main method to correct insomnia is behavior adjustment and psychotherapy, and should not rely on long-term drug treatment.  First, maintain an optimistic, contented and happy state of mind, social competition, personal gains and losses should be fully aware of, to avoid psychological imbalance due to frustration.  Second, moderate physical exercise during the day to help sleep at night.  Third, sleep hygiene recommendations: 4-6 hours before bedtime to avoid the application of caffeine and nicotine, avoid using alcohol to help sleep, 3 hours before bedtime to avoid physical exercise, reduce the impact of noise, bright light and excessive temperature in the bedroom, regular rest and rest time, go to bed at a fixed time at night, do not think about the daytime, work problems, avoid doing other activities in bed, such as watching TV, talking, eating, reading, considering problems, etc.  Fourth, relaxation therapy. The cognitive, physical and emotional states of insomnia patients are often at a high level of arousal during the day and night. Gradually relaxing muscles can reduce the level of somatic arousal, and intention training and contemplation therapy can also be carried out to reduce the level of cognitive arousal before bedtime.  V. Cognitive therapy. Changing the patient’s misconceptions and attitudes about sleep and correcting his or her extreme concern about the results of insomnia, with the aim of making the patient establish the correct concept of sleep.  Sixth, sleep restriction therapy. The purpose is to reduce the total time the patient spends in bed and increase the proportion of sleep time to bedtime, so that the patient’s desire for sleep increases, mainly for chronic physiological insomnia.  Seven, other therapies. For example, physiotherapy, body therapy, herbal medicine, acupuncture, tui na, massage, etc., may have a relieving effect on some patients.