What are the ways to prevent and control insomnia

  Insomnia refers to the lack of sleep time and depth, as well as the inability to eliminate fatigue and restore physical strength and energy. In mild cases, it is difficult to fall asleep, or sleep without soundness, or wake up sometimes, or wake up and can’t sleep again, and in severe cases, it is sleepless all night.  Insomnia is one of the common clinical diseases, although it is not a critical disease, it often hinders people’s normal life, work, study and health. Stubborn insomnia brings long-term pain and even forms a dependence on sleeping pills, which can cause medically induced diseases.  Chinese medicine can improve the sleep condition by adjusting the function of the internal organs and blood, and it does not cause drug dependence, and it does not cause medical disorders, so it is welcomed by patients.  There are many reasons for insomnia, according to Chinese medicine: mainly emotional injuries, such as the death of relatives, love breakup, promotion obstruction, business damage and other reasons, some things are not serious, but the individual’s psychological capacity is too weak and over-emphasized resulting in emotional instability. Emotional disorder, liver depression and fire, evil fire disturbs the heart and mind, the god is restless and sleepless.  1, poor diet, wine and food, fat, stagnant food, intestines and stomach damage, congestion in the middle, stomach loss and descent and sleeplessness. In the Nei Jing, it is said that “the stomach is restless if it is not in harmony”.  2, after illness, old age, long illness, blood deficiency, postpartum blood loss or excessive fatigue, lack of Yin and blood, heart fire alone, restlessness of the mind and sleeplessness.  In addition, there are also those who drink strong tea and do not sleep, and those who do not sleep because of heart problems.  Then, after understanding the causes of insomnia, we should take advantage of the situation to prevent and control. If you are hurt by emotions, you should adjust your emotions, you can use the emotional venting method, appropriate emotional venting, confide in friends and family, can reduce the occurrence of depression.  Emotional transference method, because emotional activity is a response to objective reality, so it is bound to be affected by the social environment, interpersonal relationships and other aspects, personal happiness and sadness, always in contact with other people, conflict and struggle are expressed. When certain stimuli are too intense or last too long, it can lead to a disorder of psychological balance. Therefore, it is important to shift emotions in time to correct such excessive emotional activity. In Chinese medicine, the regulation method of “overcoming emotions with emotions” is proposed, and modern psychology believes that emotional transfer is one of the ways to deal with bad emotions. After work and study, throw aside the desire for fame and fortune and sadness, and put your love in a skill, an art, a poem, a painting, a flower, a plant, in order to get pleasure from it and regain a new psychological balance.  If you do not eat well, you should pay attention to the regulation of diet, eat more light, less wine, meat and fatty products, regular rationing, reasonable cooking, four times to adjust food. Avoid drinking strong tea, coffee and other excessively stimulating things before going to bed. Appropriate participation in sports activities, etc., to improve the effect of treatment of insomnia, improve physical fitness and improve the efficiency of work, study, have a catalytic effect, gastrointestinal disease is more prominent, it should be timely treatment of gastrointestinal disease.  And after illness, old age, essence and blood deficiency, it is appropriate to supplement their deficiencies, such as Liu Wei Di Huang Wan, Agaricus Tonic Blood Punch, Gui Shen Wan can be used as appropriate.  In the clinic, there are also multiple factors to form stubborn insomnia, then you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment, Yueyang City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine has its unique side in the treatment of insomnia.  I receive a lot of insomnia patients every month, serious suicidal tendencies, after the diversion and drug treatment, 90% of them have achieved very good results, insomnia is not so terrible, but should not be treated negatively.