Do I need to see a Chinese doctor if I often suffer from insomnia?

Many people have experienced insomnia in daily life, but do you know what the clinical definition of insomnia is? It is not easy to fall asleep, and it is very easy to wake up after falling asleep. Once you wake up, you can never fall asleep again, that is, you are in a state of alternating sleep and wakefulness. Insomnia causes mental depression, and it has a bad impact on your body and mind, work and life. So how can people who often suffer from insomnia improve this situation? I suggest that you go to see a Chinese medicine doctor. So how does Chinese medicine treat it?

1. Being too irritable and waking from sleep frequently is caused by the liver. If your symptoms include waking from sleep frequently, poor spirits, fatigue, pale face, dry eyes, pale tongue, etc., it means that you have liver blood deficiency and insomnia due to deficiency and irritability. You can use sour jujube kernel soup to relieve it. Diet therapy can also effectively prevent insomnia. For example, when you feel stressed, you can eat more green and sour fruits, such as lemons, kiwis, plums, etc. When the liver fire is strong, you will easily feel thirsty and need to drink plenty of water. Rose tea and lavender tea, combined with some jujube seeds which have a calming effect, are very effective when drunk together.

2. It is easy to have dreams when falling asleep and not feel tired when waking up because of the heart. Often staying up late to work overtime will consume the "yin energy" in the body bit by bit, and become a "yin deficiency" physique. Even if exhausted, you can't fall asleep in bed, or all kinds of dreams will play out in your head one after another, and you feel that you can't get a good rest. As time goes by, you will find that your memory is declining, accompanied by symptoms such as palpitations, pale face, and dizziness. In this situation, it is necessary to "nourish the heart yin and nourish the mind spirit." It is recommended to choose longan and an appropriate amount of red dates, lotus seeds and glutinous rice and cook them into porridge for consumption in the morning; or use 6 longan pulps, 10 grams of lotus seeds and water chestnuts, add 500 ml of water and boil them into tea, drink it warm once every morning and evening, which can nourish the heart and calm the mind. However, people who have a cold or have symptoms of internal heat such as dry mouth and tongue should not eat longan.

3. Insomnia in the weak is mostly caused by the kidneys. Old age, frailty, long-term illness, excessive fatigue, or congenital physical deficiency can easily lead to people experiencing restless sleep, waking from sleep, back pain, weak legs, hot flashes and night sweats. These are mostly caused by kidney yin deficiency and excessive heart fire, and should be treated with nourishing yin and tonifying the kidneys. For dietotherapy, you can choose to cook yam, wolfberry and rice together into porridge to calm the mind and help sleep.

The theoretical basis of traditional Chinese medicine is Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, namely gold, wood, water, fire and earth. In traditional Chinese medicine, the human body is composed of spirits. gas. There is also an individual with unified form, and everyone knows the four diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine, namely, observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation. Traditional Chinese medicine makes people's bodies healthy by regulating yin and yang, and can actively help people restore their normal bodies, thus improving the quality of life and living.