What is Zhang Zhongjing's famous prescription for insomnia?

Zhang Zhongjing's famous prescription for insomnia is Suanzaoren Decoction.

Suanzaoren decoction is a classic prescription for insomnia in Treatise on Febrile Diseases by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in Han Dynasty. The original description "Because of fatigue and boredom, Ziziphus jujuba seed soup is the main one." The prescription consists of five drugs: Ziziphus jujuba seed, licorice, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Poria cocos and Ligusticum chuanxiong. It is suitable for insomnia caused by excessive fire due to yin deficiency and heat disturbing the mind, and has the effects of nourishing blood, calming the nerves, clearing away heat and relieving annoyance.

The contribution of Treatise on Febrile Diseases;

The contribution of Treatise on Febrile Diseases lies in the development and establishment of the basic principles of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment. Zhang Zhongjing comprehensively analyzed all kinds of symptoms in the process of disease occurrence and development, and found out the law of the disease according to the depth of invasion of evil spirits into meridians and viscera, the strength of patients' physique, the rise and fall of healthy qi, the priority of illness and the presence or absence of chronic diseases (other old diseases), so as to determine the treatment principles in different situations.

He creatively summarized all the symptoms of exogenous fever into six syndrome groups (namely, six levels) and eight syndrome differentiation schemes, analyzed and summarized the evolution and outcome of the disease in the development process with six meridians (sun, shaoyang, Yangming, Taiyin, shaoyin and Jueyin), and distinguished the attribute, disease location and deficiency and excess of the disease with eight categories (yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat).

As the laws and regulations for analyzing the condition, recognizing syndromes and clinical treatment have been established, syndrome differentiation and treatment not only put forward programmatic rules for the diagnosis and treatment of all exogenous fever, but also found out the rules for the clinical departments of traditional Chinese medicine, which became the basic guidelines for guiding the clinical practice of future doctors.