Insomnia symptoms and manifestations

Insomnia can cause serious harm to the human body. It not only damages physical health, but also affects the most basic life. Long-term insomnia can lead to depression, low mood, and can also cause diseases such as spleen and stomach disorders, anorexia, irritability, or excessive liver fire. You must try to adjust your own state, drink a glass of milk or listen to soothing music before going to bed, and develop good sleeping habits.

1. Liver depression and qi stagnation type

Manifestations: Insomnia accompanied by depression, emotional distress, liver qi failure, and sometimes chest and flank pain.

Treatment principle: Soothing the liver and relieving depression

Note: Take care of your spirit, eliminate worries and tension

Selected drugs: Jieyu Anshen granules, Bailemian capsules, Yangxue Qingnao granules, Shumian capsules

1. Bailemian Capsules

Functional interpretation: Soothes the liver and clears heat, nourishes yin and calms the mind.

Features: Improves patients' irritability, irritability, palpitations and other symptoms with fast onset and few adverse reactions

Indications: Insomnia due to liver depression and yin deficiency, with symptoms of difficulty falling asleep, frequent dreams and easy awakening, insomnia after waking up, dizziness, fatigue, irritability, palpitations and anxiety

2. Sleeping Capsules

Functional interpretation: Soothes liver and relieves depression, calms the mind and soothes nerves.

Indications: Insomnia caused by liver depression, symptoms include insomnia, dreaminess, depression or irritability, chest and flank fullness or chest discomfort, bitter taste in the mouth and dizziness

2. Spleen and stomach disharmony type

Symptoms: restless sleep at night, waking up from time to time, feeling greasy or tasteless in the mouth, loss of appetite, loose stools, etc.

Treatment principles: soothing the stomach, strengthening the spleen and calming the mind

Selected drugs: Ginseng Guipi Pills, Shenqi Wuweizi Tablets

1. Ginseng Guipi Pills

Function: replenishing qi and blood, strengthening spleen and nourishing heart

Indications: Used for deficiency of both heart and spleen, insufficient qi and blood, often accompanied by shortness of breath, dizziness, limb fatigue, and poor appetite

2. Shenqi Schisandra Tablets

Function: Strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, calm the mind and soothe the nerves

Indications: Insomnia, dreaminess, forgetfulness, fatigue, palpitations, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating

Precautions: Patients with cold and fever should not take this product

3. Excessive Heart and Liver Fire

Manifestation: Can't sleep all night, mostly due to anger and boredom, more common in menopausal women, manifested as impatience, irritability, red eyes and bitter mouth,

The stool is dry.

Treatment principles: clearing away heat and purging fire

Drug of choice: Zhusha Anshen Pills

Clinical application: Used to treat symptoms such as hyperactivity of heart fire and restlessness caused by insufficient yin and blood, with symptoms such as restlessness, insomnia, dreaminess, palpitations and uneasiness.

Precautions for use: Pregnant women should not use. People with insufficient heart qi or weak spleen and stomach should not take it. Because it contains cinnabar, it is not suitable for excessive or long-term use.

4. Heart-kidney disharmony type

Manifestation: Kidney water deficiency leads to hyperactivity of heart fire, and water and fire cannot balance each other, which manifests as palpitations, forgetfulness, and dizziness.

Selected drugs: Liermian capsules, Wuling capsules

1. Liermian Capsules

Function: Clear the heart and reduce internal heat, connect the heart and kidney

Indications: Insomnia, dreaminess, palpitations and restlessness caused by disharmony between the heart and kidney

2. Wuling Capsules

Functional interpretation: Nourishes the kidneys and brain, nourishes the heart and calms the mind.

Indications: Neurasthenia due to disharmony between heart and kidney. Symptoms include insomnia, forgetfulness, fatigue, soreness of waist and knees

5. Insufficient Ying Qi

Symptoms: feeling half asleep all night, lack of energy during the day, forgetfulness, difficulty concentrating, and sometimes panic.

Treatment principles: nourishing blood and calming the mind

Selected drugs: Zaoren Anshen Capsules

Function: Nourishes blood and calms the mind

Clinical application: used to treat insomnia and other diseases caused by insufficient heart blood

Precautions: Use with caution in pregnant women and those with excessive gastric acid

Non-drug treatments for insomnia

1. Erren porridge: add 30g of Chinese jujube kernel and 20g of cypress kernel into appropriate amount of cold water and boil for 30 minutes, then add rice and cook together. Take in 2 doses.

Effect: Nourishes the mind and calms the nerves

2. Honey and Jujube Kernel Method: Add 15g of fried and ground jujube kernels into 30g of honey and take it in two doses with water.

Indications: Insomnia, dreaminess