Still insomnia for a long time? Have you ever used these two commonly used Chinese medicines for nourishing the heart and calming the nerves?

After a busy day's work and study, a good night's sleep is often the best way to restore our energy, and a long-term good sleep is also a major factor to ensure good health. Unfortunately, however, insomnia has gradually become a problem for many people. Transient insomnia may recover after adjustment of living habits, but many people suffer from insomnia for a long time because of various pressures and troubles, and even have to rely on sleeping pills.

If you take sleeping pills for a long time, drug resistance is inevitable and extremely unhealthy. So why don't we go to Chinese medicine to find the answer? In fact, Chinese medicine is also very knowledgeable in the treatment of insomnia.

Throughout the clinic, Ziziphus Spinosae and Semen Platycladi are excellent "drug pairs" in the choice of drugs for insomnia. Still insomnia for a long time? Have you ever used these two commonly used Chinese medicines for nourishing the heart and calming the nerves? Semen Ziziphi Spinosae and Semen Platycladi belong to seed Chinese medicine. Semen Ziziphi Spinosae is derived from Ziziphus Spinosae of Rhamnaceae. The seed kernel of Platycladus orientalis leaves comes from the seed kernel of Platycladus orientalis leaves, and its leaves are also excellent Chinese medicines.

In the classification of traditional Chinese medicine, Ziziphus jujuba seed and Platycladus orientalis seed belong to sedative drugs, that is, traditional Chinese medicine with the main effect of calming the nerves and helping sleep. Both are sweet and flat, and Ziziphus jujuba seeds are sour. In the meridian tropism, two kernels can naturally enter the heart meridian, Ziziphus jujuba seeds can also enter the liver and gallbladder meridian, and Platycladus orientalis can also enter the kidney and large intestine meridian.

In terms of specific functions, jujube and cacumen platycladi are good nourishing products, which have the functions of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. If these two drugs are used to treat insomnia, it is naturally aimed at insomnia due to deficiency cold. Insomnia is called insomnia in traditional Chinese medicine, and as for its etiology and pathogenesis, Li Zhongzi, a doctor in Ming Dynasty, clearly pointed out: "There are probably five reasons for insomnia: one is qi deficiency ... the other is yin deficiency ... the other is phlegm and blood stasis ... and the other is stomach disharmony ..." In short, there are many reasons for insomnia, but they can't escape from both ends of deficiency and excess. Those with pathogenic excess are supplemented by purging excess and calming the nerves, while those with insufficient vital energy are mainly supplemented by tonifying deficiency and calming the nerves.

However, Semen Ziziphi Spinosae and Semen Platycladi can nourish the heart and soothe the nerves, and Semen Ziziphi Spinosae can also nourish the liver, so it is often used for insomnia caused by heart-qi deficiency or liver-blood deficiency and deficiency heat disturbing the heart. This kind of insomnia mostly appears in the middle-aged group with high work and life pressure and the elderly group with qi and blood loss. Because the pressure is too great, it consumes sadness, hurts the heart or consumes hard work. liver blood deficiency, with the growth of age, there is insufficient yin and blood.

For insomnia caused by this kind of etiology and pathogenesis, Ziziphus jujuba seed and Platycladus orientalis seed have good therapeutic effects. Suanzaoren and Platycladus orientalis can be used to treat insomnia not only by clinicians, but also by our own medicated diet at home. Moreover, because both of them have no peculiar smell, they are also very suitable for medicinal diet. If you are a friend who suffers from insomnia due to deficiency, you may wish to add a proper amount of Ziziphus Spinosae and Platycladus orientalis in the soup, and the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves will be very obvious.

But at the same time, we should also pay attention to the insomnia caused by damp-heat, phlegm-heat and liver-fire disturbing the heart. It is not recommended to use Ziziphus jujuba seed and Platycladus orientalis seed, otherwise it will block the qi movement, encourage pathogenic factors and aggravate the symptoms.