The Studying On Treating Insomnia Of Zhang Zhongjing

Insomnia is one of the common syndromes in clinic.It appears as the deficiency of hours and depth of sleep.Sometimes the patients can' t allay tiredness or restoring physical strength and energy.Those who are lightly will difficult falling asleep or sleep but not soundly,sleep but easyto wake or awake but no more sleep.Those who are heavy will be insomnia on whole nights and accompanied with spiritlessness and weakness,dizziness and headache, palpitation and amnesia,etc.Now the incidence rate of insomnia is very high, especially in the young people.The etiopathogenisis and pathogenesis of insomnia is multiplicity.Using the diagnostic methods of the west medicine, we can seldom judging the cause and mechanism of some syndromes of insomnia. Based on differentiation,the treatment of TCM set out from the whole.It has superiority in synthetic action.Then it got extensive attention.More than 2000 years from pre-Qin to the end of Qing dynasty,after long-standing clinical observing and practicing,the doctors summarized a plenty of experiences in differing symptoms and using medicines,consummated the recognition of insomnia' s etiopathogenisis and pathogenesis,feature of invasion and treatment based on differentiation either,accumulated massive documents and data.The studying was based on theory of Zhang Zhongjing, collected theory of treating insomnia in the ancient times,analyzed the indexes of Traditional Chinese Medical Formulates aiming at effective function, etc.The result:The insomnia' s treatment of Zhang Zhongjing derived from Inner Classic and had special features and regulations of his own.It' s affected descendent doctors deeply.I selected and analyzed the records of insomnia from ancient doctors all-sided.Based on the records,I found Suan Zao Ren Tang and Wen Dan Tang' s used frequencies was maximum.According to the applies of Ren shen,Fu ling and Suan zaoren are in the front of third in monographers and non-monographers,I proposed that using the method of supplement vital Qi for enriching blood and tranquilizing,strength spleen to reduce phlegm,to treat insomnia should be the preferred method in treating insomnia.