Tcm Diet Medication For Menopausal Insomnia

Purpose:To observe the clinical effects of TCM diet medication on menopausal insomnia which to be simply and easily accepted by the patients, then to provide a new train of prevention and treatment for menopausal insomnia.Methods:Select patients with menopausal insomnia30cases, who were from the gynecology clinic of First Hospital Affiliated to Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine from2010November-2010December and in accord with the diagnosis of menopausal insomnia, mainly use TCM diet medication, two times a day,200ml each time,2months for1course, Follow-up was carried out routinely for a record of therapeutic effect, in the end get a thorough evaluation of treatment effect before and after.Results:Syndromes of most patients taking TCM diet improves apparently. The statistics from the2months of follow-up records show that the total effective rate is93.33%. Sweet wheat jujube porridge on mild insomnia patients with the best effect, recovered17, effective1among the18cases of mild insomnia patients;7moderate insomnia patients due to short treatment time show a poorer efficacy than the mild cases, the results were recovered1, effective5, inefficacy1; the curative effect is worst in patients with severe syndromes. Results of5patients was2,1,2. Among them, TCM syndrome differentiation in19patients with kidney-yin deficiency, the total effective rate was94.7%,11patients with kidney yang deficiency with an efficiency of90%.Treatment time have a more close relation with the clinical effects. There was no significant difference (P>0.05) among groups less than2months and2-8months, whose efficiencies were respectively100%and93.75%; but both with significant difference (P<0.05) among groups less than2months with more than8months whose effective rate was40%and2-8months with more than8months. We can say that the longer of the disease, the poorer of the treatment effect. Conclusion:Sweet wheat jujube porridge can markedly reduce the clinical symptoms of menopausal insomnia and significantly change the SPIEGEL scores. So TCM diet medication is a safe and effective method for menopausal insomnia.