Treatment of insomnia with traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine looks at the inside from the outside and adjusts the outside from the inside. Therefore, the core of Chinese medicine in treating insomnia is to regulate endocrine, that is, to regulate hormone problems. But few people often suffer from insomnia because of hormonal problems.

Speaking of Chinese medicine, we must first recognize a concept. The theory of traditional Chinese medicine stresses the balance between yin and yang. All Chinese medicine practitioners are based on this theory, whether it is Huangdi Neijing, Suwen or Compendium of Materia Medica.

For insomnia, we should also distinguish the causes of insomnia from the theory of traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that insomnia can be divided into deficiency syndrome and excess syndrome. Insomnia deficiency syndrome is mostly caused by deficiency of both heart and spleen, timidity and hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency, which leads to mental dystrophy. That is to say, yin is strong and yang is weak, and insomnia is mostly caused by excessive heart fire, liver depression turning into fire, phlegm heat disturbing the heart and causing anxiety. It's that yang flourishes and yin declines. However, chronic insomnia can be manifested as deficiency, excess or blood stasis.

In addition, Semen Ziziphi Spinosae, Pharmacopoeia 20 15 edition-Semen Ziziphi Spinosae is introduced clearly.

Efficacy of Ziziphus jujuba seed: nourishing the heart and liver, calming the heart and calming the nerves, and sweating and producing fluid. Used for fatigue, insomnia, fright, dreaminess, physical weakness, sweating, body fluid injury and thirst.

Sexual taste and meridian tropism: sweet, sour and flat. Liver, gallbladder and heart meridian.

See clearly that Semen Ziziphi Spinosae belongs to liver, gallbladder and heart meridian, that is to say, it is a traditional Chinese medicine for nourishing liver and enriching blood, and its effect is also to nourish heart and liver and treat fatigue and insomnia. See, the so-called insomnia due to deficiency is useless if you use it to treat insomnia due to excess.

Insomnia due to deficiency syndrome is mostly caused by liver blood deficiency's anxiety. Such patients are emaciated and haggard, and at the same time have inexplicable mental symptoms such as anxiety, uneasiness or depression, irritability, fear and trance. When it comes to liver-blood deficiency, it is generally only found in women, because women themselves belong to yin, and the special constitution leads to liver-blood deficiency, which is more obvious in women over middle age, so many women often suffer from insomnia before and after menopause.

Finally, talk about the way to take it. Not all Chinese medicine tonics can be soaked in wine. On the contrary, it is more effective to take it directly. Can be used to make tea, porridge and so on. And it is best to grind it into powder or granules before use. Semen Ziziphi Spinosae is oily, and its flavone and saponin have sedative and tranquilizing effects. But with fried Ziziphus jujuba seeds. (Chinese medicine "making" drugs will change the efficacy and taste of drugs, which is more complicated. )

Therefore, Ziziphus jujuba seed is only effective for insomnia caused by liver-blood deficiency and blood deficiency, and it is only effective for applicable people (middle-aged women have the best effect on insomnia caused by blood deficiency. ) I don't blindly buy Ziziphus jujuba seeds.