According
to Traditional Chinese Medicine theory, a human body is considered as
a mini nature. When the sun descends, the night is coming; meanwhile
the Qi (vital energy ) and blood slip into the interior and human fall into sleep.
This is a wellbalanced status for person. Now ,you can get a conclusion
that if Qi and blood can not enter into the body in the evening
because of any reasons, you will get into insomnia.
There are kinds of reasons that cause
vital energy and blood can not go into the inside, such as disharmony between
the heart and kidney, deficiency of Qi and blood of the heart and spleen, lack of
yin of liver
and eat too much or starve. Person can not sleep
peacefully, manifesting be difficulty in going into sleep, easy to wake after sleep and not easy to sleep again and so
on. It is just a Traditional Chinese Medicine theory-"yang can not enter into yin”.
Moreover, it is should be realized that
Qi and blood go into the interior in the night in order to exert the function of
nourishing visceral. "not sleep in the night, not energetic in day time",
so the concomitant symptoms must be distractibility, listlessness and dizziness
in the daytime.
The main treating principle of insomnia
in Traditional Chinese Medicine include communicating
heart and kidney, nourishing Qi and blood of heart and spleen, promoting
digestion and removing retention of food .The representative formulae are
“Harmony-Preserving pills, Mid-Reinforcing and Qi-Benefiting Decoction,
Rehmannia Bolus with six Herbs”. Acupuncture
and massage has a fine effect on insomnia too.
The
definition of insomnia, according to the American Sleep Disorders Association (ASDA),
is difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep. If it occurs every night or most
nights for an extended time, it's called chronic insomnia. If it only lasts for
a few days and short-term insomnia for no more than three week, we call it
Transient insomnia.
Perhaps the most important
point to realize about insomnia is that it is not a disease, but
rather a symptom. This symptom can occur with many different types of
illnesses or conditions. In the majority of cases, underlying causes
exist for the insomnia. When no other underlying causes can be found,
the patient is said to be suffering from primary insomnia. As you
catch on, Primary insomnia is not due to any other sleep disorders,
such as restless legs syndrome, medical conditions, drugs, or mental
disorders and so on.
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