The Narcolepsy Disease In Chinese And Western Medical Research Progress

Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucination and sleep paralysis, with abnormal characteristics of shorter rapid eye movement (REM) sleep latency. The management of the patients is very important. The present study focused on the clinical characteristics, diagnostic methods and long-term prognosis of this particular syndrome. The incidence of the disease in different countries and regions present different rates, onset ages tend to be younger, and disability injury rate is higher, need to take seriously. The pathogenesis of this disease is unclear, the existing research with neurological biochemistry that change, neural function abnormality, immune and genetic factors about the latter, and the related knowledge seems particularly outstanding.TCM consider Narcolepsy as a category of Somnolence syncope. Understanding of its pathogenesis is based on traditional Chinese medicine for sleep medicine knowledge and the basis of the theory, is more about qi, yin and yang organs, meridians, etc.; mentor that imbalance of yin and yang is the basic cause of the disease pathogenesis. Different physicians of this disease syndrome type have different perceptions, there is no unity. Comprehensive variety of treatment methods of Chinese medicine, such as internal medicine, needles, ear, plum blossom needle, massage, etc., can be achieved very good results. And some physicians report the Integrative Medicine approach to treat the disease, the effect is considerable. TCM treatment of the disease has a great advantage, distinctive and complementary therapies, highlighting the characteristics of the traditional medicine; Combining traditional Chinese and western medicine treatment of Narcolepsywill improve the therapeutic effect. In the future,. But the disease is no uniform standard of Syndrome, the lack of appropriate diagnostic criteria, so that clinicians nothing to follow. Therefore, TCM syndrome type and determine the efficacy require further standardization. Follow the instructor through the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine and the clinical treatment of disease study, we summarize the instructors pathogenesis of this disease awareness and treatment characteristics.This article have accessed, analysis the relevant literature nearly 15 years, about the epidemiology of narcolepsy, etiology and pathogenesis, pathology, cl inical manifestat ions, diagnostic criteria, TCM pathogenesis, and traditional Chinese medicine, TCM treatment Teacher thinking, outlook. Aims to summarize recent progress, for further discussion of narcolepsy in the TCM treatment of ideas and references to more effective diagnosis and treatment of this disease, the majority of patients the trouble.