"The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic" Sleep Theory And Research On The Treatment Of Injustice

People in this rapid development of modern society are living in fast rhythm and diversified environment with the spirit in a tense state for a long time which do harm to their physical and mental health. facing of the pressure of work, study and life brought by contemporary social competition, people can not arrange work and rest time scientifically and healthly making more and more people suffered from somnipathy. Somnipathy contains many diseases and insomnia is the most common one of somnipathy. Now, the clinical doctor use benzodiazepines to treat insomnia but it is not very ideal way. Facing of the increasing numbers of people suffered from insomnia, looking for a safe and effective treatment method is imminent. The traditional Chinese medicine on treating insomnia has a long-term accumulation of experience and heal insomnia by removing factors which lead to insomnia through syndrome differentiation and treatment. In this paper, I do collection and analysis on the etiology, pathogenesis, syndrome differentiation and treatment of insomnia by searching the ancient medical books from pre-qin to the qing dynasty and connecting with the literature searching from CNKI database and weipu database based on the keyword insomnia and Chinese medicine. In this paper, the text is divided into four parts. The first part is about the theory of physiological mechanism of somnus and etiology, pathogenesis and treatment of insomnia in huangdi neijing. The second part is to sort out and analyze the theories and views about treating insomnia of the doctors from pre-qin to the qing dynasty. The third part illustrate some commonly used prescriptions in treating insomnia and analyze and discusse these prescriptions. The fourth part is about discussion on etiology, pathogenesis, treatment of insomnia and the discussion of the brain and sleep. Based on collecting, analysing and discussing related data, come to the conclusion that the cause of insomnia are exogenous pathogens, modern disorders, cultivate hasty and weak in eating and sleeping, therapeutic error, physical and pathological product of pathogenic factors; the basic pathogenesis of insomnia are engaged estrangement, nutrients anaemia empty and viscera dysfunction; the main location of insomnia is heart, closely relating to the dysfunction of liver, gallbladder, lienal, stomach and kidney and these organs can affect the function of the heart and lead to insomnia. In addition, this paper emphasize that the exogenous insomnia and Yang deficiency which is easy to overlooked should be paid attention to when we treat insomnia.