INSOMNIA

Insomnia 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 weeks, we call it Transient insomnia.

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine theory, a human body is related to nature. When the sun descends, the night is coming; meanwhile the “Qi” (vital energy) and blood, slip into the interior and we fall into sleep otherwise, because of any reasons, people will get into insomnia.

There are all kinds of reasons that cause vital energy and blood no to “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. Persons cannot sleep peacefully, manifesting 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. "No sleep at the night, no energy in day time", so the concomitant symptoms must be distract, listless and dizzy 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 .

Acupuncture Chinese herbal treatment and massage has a good effect on insomnia.

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