The progressing research of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of insomnia

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10.2991/icemct-17.2017.116How to use a DOI?

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traditional Chinese medicine insomnia

Abstract

With the rapid development of society and the increase of the pressure of competition. Insomnia patients increased year by year. Recently, traditional Chinese medicine has made obvious progress in treating insomnia and plays more and more important role in treating insomnia. Traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation and treatment and the characteristics of the multiple targets of action of traditional Chinese medicine compound, make traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of insomnia have stable curative effect, and the obvious advantages like small side effect and diverse methods .This paper reviews the experimental research and clinical progress of Chinese medicine treatment of insomnia. Patients with insomnia, usually refers to trouble falling asleep, sleep quality decline, total sleep time reduced, the symptom such as wake up at the same time accompanied by daytime dysfunction. it was called cannot sleep ,must not fall down in traditional Chinese medicine. Treatment of insomnia has a history of thousands of years of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine theory in the books huangdi neijing have records of "stomach lie unsettling". At present, modern medicine in the clinical commonly used sedative hypnotic drugs in the treatment of insomnia, but very prone to resistance and withdrawal reaction, and the blood, cardiovascular, respiratory, produce different degree of adverse reactions, the curative effect of Chinese medicine in the treatment of insomnia showed stable, and the advantages of small side effects, this article summarizes the experimental research and clinical development progress of Chinese medicine treatment of insomnia.

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