How to treat narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder of unknown cause. The main characteristic of this disease is that it is accompanied by abnormal sleep tendencies, which are different from the sleep habits of normal people. Narcolepsy causes excessive daytime sleepiness. As for how to treat narcolepsy, traditional Chinese medicine is very effective.

(1) Deficiency of both heart and spleen

1. Symptoms: Drowsiness, blurred vision before sleep, fatigue, palpitations, sallow complexion, thin white tongue coating, and weak pulse.

2. Treatment method: nourish the heart and spleen.

3. Prescription: Guipi Decoction with modifications.

If there is abdominal distension, epigastric distress, poor appetite, and greasy tongue coating, add Poria, Patchouli, and Magnolia officinalis to aromatically transform dampness, strengthen the spleen and promote qi circulation; if there are frequent dizziness and hallucinations before going to bed due to insufficient heart yin, add Ophiopogon japonicus, Polygonatum odoratum, and Adenophora paniculata.

(2) Weak Spleen

1. Symptoms include drowsiness all day, sallow complexion, fatigue, insomnia, palpitations, shortness of breath, forgetfulness and easy fright, pale tongue, thin white tongue coating, and weak pulse.

2. Treatment method: nourish qi and blood, nourish the brain and refresh the mind.

3. Prescription: Yangxin Decoction with modifications

If water retention occurs in the body and the patient has palpitations and restlessness, add Poria, Areca catechu, and Alisma orientalis; if the patient is drowsy all day, add Styrax odoratum, Acorus calamus, and Alpinia oxyphylla to open up the orifices and wake up the mind.

(III) Kidney Yang Deficiency

1. Symptoms: drowsiness, or drowsiness, soreness of waist and knees, fear of cold limbs, impotence, clear and long urination, frequent urination at night, pale tongue, thin white tongue coating, deep, fine and weak pulse.

2. Treatment method: warm and tonify kidney yang.

3. The prescription of Youguiyin is modified.

If there is qi deficiency and blood loss, add ginseng and add white atractylodes and astragalus.

(IV) Insufficient marrow sea

1. Symptoms include laziness and drowsiness, soreness of waist and knees, dizziness, or tinnitus and deafness, dull expression, slow thinking, lack of energy, memory loss, pale red tongue, thin white tongue coating, and weak or thready pulse.

2. Treatment method: replenish essence and marrow, strengthen brain and sharpen orifices.

3. Modify the prescription of Zuogui Pills.

For nocturnal emission and sexual intercourse in dreams, add raw oyster, golden cherry, Euryale ferox, and lotus stamen to strengthen the kidney and restrain semen. For hot flashes, night sweats, and dry mouth, remove Cornus officinalis and deer shell glue, and add Anemarrhena asphodeloides and Phellodendron chinense to nourish yin and purge fire.

(V) Insufficient Heart Yang

1. Symptoms include lethargy, mental depression, fear of cold and cold limbs, pale complexion, pale tongue, thin white fur, and deep and fine pulse.

2. Treatment method: Warm and nourish the heart yang and replenish the heart qi.

3. The prescription is Guizhi Gancao Decoction combined with Renshen Yiqi Decoction with modifications.

For those who are very afraid of cold and have cold limbs, remove the cassia twig and add cinnamon bark and dried ginger to replenish fire and assist yang, warm and unclog the meridians; for those with pale complexion and severe blood deficiency, add donkey-hide gelatin, rehmannia, wolfberry and Polygonum multiflorum to replenish the blood.

(VI) Bile heat and phlegm obstruction

1. Symptoms include drowsiness, dizziness, bitter and dry mouth, nausea, chest and flank fullness, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid and stringy pulse.

2. Treatment method: clear the gallbladder and resolve phlegm.

3. Prescription: Haoqin Qingdan Decoction with modifications.

For patients with internal obstruction of phlegm and qi reflux and symptoms of hardness and distension under the heart and persistent belching due to internal obstruction of phlegm and qi reflux, add Xuanfu Daizhe Decoction to invigorate qi and harmonize the stomach, resolve phlegm and lower qi. If the patient is in a coma, add Angong Niuhuang Pills to wake up the brain and open the orifices.