According to the investigation of clinical medicine, insomnia is a serious problem that troubles many people. Long term insomnia leads to depression, anxiety, mental weakness and other symptoms. Seriously affect life, study, work, memory decline, immunity decline, even shorten life. To treat insomnia, we need to prescribe the right medicine. Let's take a look
1. Deficiency of yin and blood
Etiology: deficiency of yin and blood is mainly due to long illness and overwork, or excessive blood loss in the process of women's production, which leads to the body's deficiency of Jin, Yin, energy and vessels, blood deficiency and internal movement of liver and wind, so insomnia occurs.
Symptoms: people with deficiency of yin and blood are prone to forgetfulness, palpitation and convulsion of limbs; those with deficiency of Yin are prone to night sweating and restlessness; in addition, because the deficiency of blood can not nourish the face, the face will be dull and dark yellow.
Treatment: people with deficiency of yin and blood should focus on Nourishing Yin and blood. Donkey hide gelatin, prepared land, angelica, Ophiopogon japonicus and wolfberry fruit are good drugs for nourishing yin and blood.
2. Stagnation of liver Qi
Etiology: the stagnation of liver Qi is mostly caused by the loss of liver. Among the five zang organs, the liver dominates the catharsis, which is related to the comfort of the whole body's Qi. When the liver loses catharsis, there will be qi stagnation, and people's emotions will also be depressed, which will lead to insomnia.
Symptoms: depression of liver Qi not only leads to depression and insomnia, but also has costal pain, abdominal distention, chest distress and likes sighing. In the long run, it will lead to obesity, irregular menstruation, breast hyperplasia, and even breast cancer.
Treatment: the main principle of treatment should be to soothe the liver and relieve depression, learn to regulate their emotions, less anger and less depression. When the mood is relaxed, the liver Qi will not be stagnated. But when the stagnation of liver Qi has seriously affected our life, we can use some drugs such as Chaihu Shugan powder, Xiaoyao Pill, Jieyu Anshen pill to regulate it.
3. Heartburn
Etiology: this kind of people are mostly caused by the depression of emotion, or by excessive consumption of spicy and irritant food, which leads to the imbalance of yin and Yang in the heart. Because the heart is in charge of blood and mind activities.
The imbalance of yin and Yang in the heart leads to the rising of blood fever, the disturbance of people's mind by heart fire, and the symptom of insomnia.
Symptoms: in addition to insomnia, heartburn can also be accompanied by upset, dry mouth, red tongue sore, red tongue tip, thin white tongue coating and other symptoms. In addition, people with a burning heart can easily feel angry and depressed.
Treatment: it is suggested that people with strong heart fire should eat less fat, sweet, thick and pungent stimulants, and eat more clear heart fire food. Among the five flavors, bitterness is in the heart. Therefore, you can eat more bitter and fire clearing food, such as bitter melon, almond, Kudingcha, kale, etc.
4. Deficiency of heart and spleen
Etiology: deficiency of heart and spleen refers to the coexistence of deficiency of heart and blood and weakness of temper. Eating out of control, over thinking, tiredness and long illness will hurt people's temper. And too tired will hurt the heart and blood, lack of heart and soul, will also cause insomnia.
Symptoms: people with deficiency of both heart and spleen show sleep disorder, which is not easy to fall asleep, but also easy to wake up. And accompanied by palpitation forgetfulness, loss of appetite, fatigue, abdominal distention and loose stools and other symptoms.
Treatment: people with deficiency of both heart and spleen should mainly strengthen the spleen and nourish the heart. Usually, they can eat more jujube, millet, lily, longan, yam and other foods. If the heart and spleen deficiency can not be cured through diet and self-care, you can take some Guipi pills and Baizi Yangxin tablets.
How to treat insomnia?
1. Many people misunderstand alcohol, many friends will mistakenly believe that drinking helps sleep. Therefore, it is easy to fall asleep after drinking, but you do not know that alcohol control is not good for sleep. But the sleep induced by alcohol is not easy to last. As soon as the wine disappears, it is easy to wake up, and it is difficult to fall asleep after waking up. And alcoholics are more likely to cause asphyxiative insomnia.
2. A good way to treat insomnia will require patients to go to bed on time. If the patient still can't sleep, that is, get up and do some activities to promote insomnia. At this time, it is not advisable to overwork the body and mind. If you want to use activities such as push ups to try to make yourself sleep from fatigue, the effect will be counterproductive. Regular exercise is easy to improve the quality of sleep.
3. Because other activities in bed often break the habit of regular sleep. Therefore, in the treatment of insomnia, we should pay attention to the purification of sleeping sheets: we should form the habit that the bed is only for sleeping; we should not read in the bed, call in the bed, or watch TV in the bed.
4. Too much is bad for sleep, while coffee, coke, tea and other stimulating drinks, especially bad for sleep. Therefore, a good way to treat insomnia includes moderate diet before sleep: moderate diet before sleep if necessary; milk, bread, biscuits and other food, which is conducive to sleep.
5. To ensure high quality sleep. Need to have a comfortable sleeping environment. Insomnia self-treatment, first of all, to keep the environment quiet. The light is dark, the smell is relaxed, and the color is soft. At the same time, we should pay attention to the sleep of the elderly. In addition, put two apples in the bedroom. This also has some effect on relieving insomnia.
6. Don't have mental pressure. No, close your eyes and go to sleep. You can open your eyes as long as you can in the dark. It's possible to fall asleep naturally. Also, don't take worry to bed. You can write down your worries or concerns in advance. At the same time, plan what to do tomorrow. Insomnia is often a disease of thought. Therefore, self-treatment should also start from refusing to think before going to bed.
7. Don't take sleeping pills easily. In the discovery of their own, insomnia. Don't take sleeping pills right away. To find out, the reason for insomnia, in the end what is. Some insomnia, are relatively short-term. It's mainly affected by emotions and the environment. Therefore, when self-treatment, as long as these factors are avoided. There will be no insomnia. This also ensures that normal life will not be greatly affected.