Insomnia, also known as "sleeplessness" or "sleeplessness", is mainly manifested as often not easy to fall asleep at night, or easy to wake up after sleeping, difficult to fall asleep after waking up, or sleeping without being satisfied, waking up from time to time, or even sleepless all night, often accompanied by symptoms of multiple dreams.
New Year's Day is healthy The following is to introduce you to 5 methods of insomnia in traditional Chinese medicine:
Weak and timid:
Manifestations: restless sleep, easy to wake up at night, short sleep time. Dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, forgetfulness, and dreams. Low work efficiency, easy to sweat, often accompanied by palpitations, shortness of breath, chest tightness, backache and weak legs.
Rule: The heart is the main god, and the main god. The heart hides the god, and the brain is the house of the original god. If the heart is weak and timid, God will not keep it, and if God is restless, it will wander away. In addition, factors such as hyperactivity of liver yang or phlegm, heat, and internal disturbance can also cause insomnia.
Prescription: Tonify the mind and calm the nerves. Commonly used medicines include sour jujube kernel, lily, yuanzhi, longan meat, jujube, licorice, etc.
Heart and spleen deficiency type:
Manifestations: chest tightness, bloating, lack of appetite, fatigue, dizziness, restlessness, forgetfulness, short sleep duration.
Rule: Nourish the heart and spleen, calm the nerves.
Prescription medicine: Gui Spleen decoction plus or minus.
Liver stagnation and fire type:
Manifestations: insomnia, dreaminess, irritability, chest and flank fullness, bitterness in the mouth and throat, dizziness and headache, loss of appetite.
Treatment: Excessive liver fire leads to insomnia. Cleanse the liver and relieve fire.
Prescription medicine: gentian laxative liver soup, Xiaoyaosan, etc.
Cardiorenal Dyscopic Type:
Manifestations: upset, palpitations, restless sleep, forgetfulness, tinnitus, dreams, soreness in the waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, dizziness, loose teeth, etc.
Treatment: The heart and kidney are mostly caused by insufficient heart blood or heart yin, and the main reason is heart qi deficiency or heart fire.
Prescription medicine: Mainly to nourish the heart and blood. Gui spleen pills, etc.
Heart and gallbladder deficiency type:
Manifestations: palpitations, insomnia, fatigue, dizziness, tinnitus, forgetfulness, loss of appetite, etc.
Rule: The heart is the master of the five internal organs, and if the courage is weak, the god will not keep the house and it will be difficult to sleep.
Prescription: Nourishing Qi and calming the nerves, calming the mind. Boiled licorice soup, ginseng cinnamon soup, etc.