What are the traditional Chinese medicine treatments for severe insomnia?

Many people may suffer from insomnia. For example, a slight noise will wake us up when we are sleeping at night. After being woken up by a mobile device, it is difficult to fall asleep again. The sleep time at night becomes very short, and the sleeping environment is not particularly good. For example, there is slight noise or light stimulation in the sleeping environment. So how to treat insomnia?

A new idea for insomnia is to regulate the five internal organs. Scholars believe that insomnia mainly manifests itself in the liver, affecting the five internal organs and taking into account the actual diseases of the five internal organs. It advocates the holistic view that "all five internal organs have insomnia", and adopts a treatment system that starts with the liver, takes other organs into consideration, and differentiates and adds or subtracts symptoms, and based on this, a treatment plan for insomnia has been developed. Regulating emotions. Mental emotions are closely related to insomnia. Therefore, insomnia is divided into worry type, suspicious type, tension type, and depression type. They are treated with clearing heat and purging fire, soothing the liver and relieving counterflow, nourishing yin and clearing heat, regulating qi and relieving depression, clearing the heart and calming the mind, and harmonizing the liver and spleen, and good results are achieved.

Regulate the liver and spleen. This traditional Chinese medicine theory believes that many causes and pathogenesis of insomnia are related to liver and spleen disorders. The selection of principles, methods and prescriptions for the treatment of insomnia should focus on regulating the liver and spleen on the basis of syndrome differentiation and treatment. Following the circadian rhythm, human sleep is a physiological activity with circadian rhythm, and insomnia is the result of the disorder of this normal sleep-wake rhythm. Following this rule, Chinese medicine scholars have proposed treatment plans for insomnia that are tailored to the circumstances. Guiding fire back to its roots and connecting the heart and kidney. This TCM theory believes that insomnia is caused by fire not returning to its roots, and the treatment plan ultimately needs to return to the issue of "guiding fire back to its roots and connecting the heart and kidney", and divides insomnia into five types: liver qi stagnation type, kidney essence deficiency type, heart fire excess type, meridian stasis type, and phlegm-dampness blockage type, and treats them based on the syndrome differentiation.

In fact, in addition to the methods introduced above, there are many other commonly used methods to treat insomnia. For example, you can use acupuncture stimulation to treat insomnia, you can also choose to use Chinese medicine to regulate the body to treat insomnia, or use self-suggestion to help sleep when you have insomnia, you can also take appropriate dietary supplements, or undergo psychological treatment, or use negative ion therapy to treat insomnia.