What is the disease of insomnia?

Insomnia is a Chinese medicine term equivalent to what Western medicine calls insomnia, which is a sleep disorder. Insomnia is a type of disease characterized by frequent inability to obtain normal sleep. According to Chinese medicine, the main disease of insomnia is located in the heart. Insomnia is caused by the loss of nourishment of the heart and spirit, and the lack of yang to the yin, and is related to the imbalance of yin and yang and qi and blood in the liver, gallbladder, spleen, stomach, and kidneys. There are the following subtypes: 1. Liver fire disturbing the heart syndrome: see insomnia and dreams, or even sleeplessness, irritability, with dizziness and head swelling, red eyes and ears, dry and bitter mouth, etc., can be used to treat with the addition of gentian diarrhea liver soup. 2. Phlegm-heat disturbing the heart syndrome: see upset and insomnia (the symptoms of insomnia), chest tightness and epigastric plumpness, belching (hiccups), accompanied by bitter taste in the mouth, heaviness in the head, dizziness, etc., can be used in Huanglian Wengdian Tang with additional subtractions. 3. Deficiency of heart and spleen: it is not easy to fall asleep, easy to wake up with dreams, palpitation and forgetfulness, fatigue and low food intake, accompanied by dizziness and dizziness, tiredness of limbs, abdominal distension and loose stools (stools are thin and unshaped), and the face is less colorful, etc., and it can be used in Gui Spleen Soup with additional subtractions. 4. Heart-kidney disharmony (heart fire, kidney yin deficiency, physiological dysfunction of the heart and kidneys): disturbed sleeplessness, difficulty in falling asleep, palpitation and dreaming, accompanied by dizziness and tinnitus, lumbar and knee soreness and weakness, hot flashes and night sweating (sweating abnormally after falling asleep, but sweating stops after waking up), etc., can be used to add or subtract Six-flavored Digoxigenin Pill and Jiaotai Pill. 5. Heart and gallbladder qi evidence: see deficiency annoyance (caused by deficiency heat in the body), insomnia, easy to be frightened by things, day-long vigilance, timid palpitation, accompanied by shortness of breath and spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, aggravated by sweating with slight movement), etc., can be used to add or subtract Anshen Tingzhi Pill and Sour Jujube Nut Soup. It is recommended that the patient be regulated under the guidance of a doctor.