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Insomnia.
✵The Insomnia is a prolonged inability to obtain normal sleep, also known as the inability to sleep. Insomnia has various forms, cases tossing and turning and could not fall asleep, or cases easily wake up in sleep and could not fall asleep again once wake up, or cases half sleep and half-formed dreams or dreaminess, or cases could not sleep in the whole night and could not sleep for several days, etc.
✵ The Insomnia, is known due to various pathogenic reasons, in the TCM system, known including worry beyond measure(excessive thought and preoccupation,overstrung), hyperethism(hyperexcitation, superexcitation,over excited, erethisophrenia),melancholy(heavyhearted, subdued mood, depression),fear excess and other excessive mental stimulation, overwork, Qi and Blood deficiency after serious disease, blood-deficiency of the heart and spleen, disharmony between the heart and kidney(imbalance between heart-yang and kidney-yin:breakdown of the normal physiological coordination between the heart and the kidney), Qi-deficiency of the heart and gallbladder, hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency(fire excess from yin deficiency), hyperactivity of heart-liver fire(exuberance of heart and liver fire), all will lead to insomnia, or improper diet and overeat also lead to insomnia.
✵ Common Insomnia introduced are mainly: Insomnia of the heart and spleen blood deficiency type(Sleeplessness due to Deficiency of heart and spleen blood), Insomnia of the hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency type(Sleeplessness due to hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency), Insomnia of the exuberance of heart and liver fire type(Insomnia due to hyperactivity of heart-fire and liver-fire), Insomnia of the Heart and gallbladder qi deficiency type, Insomnia of the incoordination between spleen and stomach type, etc.
Insomnia of the heart and spleen blood deficiency type(Sleeplessness due to Deficiency of heart and spleen blood).
✦The Deficiency of heart and spleen blood Insomnia is also known as Insomnia of the heart and spleen blood deficiency type, it is a type of insomnia or sleeplessness due to Deficiency of heart and spleen blood.
✧ The symptoms of the Insomnia of the heart and spleen blood deficiency type, are commonly known including dreaminess and easily wake up, amnesia(forgetfulness,absent-minded,bad memory,poor memory),flustered(or palpitation,flappable,nervous,alarmed), mental fatigue(mental weariness),distaste for food, dilute stool, pale white lips and tongues, sallow complexion(sallow yellow facial complexion), complexionless(bloodless), etc.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons for the Insomnia of the heart and spleen blood deficiency type are known from various origins, mainly from the blood deficiency of the heart, and the blood deficiency of the spleen.
Insomnia of the hyperactvity of fire due to yin deficiency type(Sleeplessness due to hyperactiity of fire due to yin deficiency).
✦The Insomnia due to hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency is also known as Insomnia of the hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency type, is a type of insomnia or sleeplessness due to hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency.
✧ The symptoms of the Insomnia of the hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency type, are commonly known including vexation(upset, confusion, confused in mind), could not fall asleep, dizziness and tinnitus(dizzy, vertigo, ringing in ears), fever or heat at core are of the hands and feet, dry mouth and dry throat(dry pharynx,pharyngeal dryness), but do not want to drink water, red tongue, less tongue coating.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons of the Insomnia of the hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency type are known from various origins, mainly because of the Yin deficiency of the hyperactivity of fire.
Insomnia of the exuberance of heart and liver fire type(Insomnia due to hyperactivity of heart-fire and liver-fire).
✦The Insomnia due to the exuberance of heart and liver fire is also known as Insomnia of the exuberance of heart and liver fire type, it is a type of insomnia or sleeplessness due to hyperactivity of heart-fire and live-fire.
✧ The symptoms of the Insomnia of the exuberance of heart and liver fire type, are commonly known including vexation and uneasy(perturbed,upset,unpeaceful), rashness and irascibility(easy to get angry), difficulty to fall asleep, troubled by dreaminess and nightmares(troubled by frightening dream, horrible dream), red facial complexion(red face), hot eyes(red eyes, bloodshot eyes), red tongue and yellow tongue coating.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons of the Insomnia of the exuberance of heart and liver fire type are known from various origins, mainly because of the exuberance or hyperactivity of the heart and liver fire, flow upward through meridian and channels, arouse the heart and soul.
Insomnia of the Heart and gallbladder qi deficiency type.
✦The Heart and Gallbladder Qi deficiency Insomnia is also known as Insomnia of the Heart and gallbladder qi deficiency type, it is a type of insomnia or sleeplessness due to the deficiency of the heart and gallbladder Qi.
✧ The symptoms of the Insomnia of the Heart and gallbladder qi deficiency type, are commonly known including diffident and fearful could not fall asleep, dreaminess in sleep, easily wake up(easily to awaken, light sleeper), etc.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons for Insomnia of the Heart and gallbladder qi deficiency type are known from various origins, mainly from the Qi deficiency of the heart and gallbladder.
Insomnia of the incoordination between spleen and stomach type.
✦The Imbalance of Spleen and Stomach Insomnia is also known as the Insomnia of the incoordination between spleen and stomach type, it is a type of insomnia or sleeplessness due to the incoordination between the spleen and stomach.
✧ The symptoms of the Insomnia of the incoordination between spleen and stomach type, are commonly known including abdominal fullness and distention(distention in stomach duct and abdomen), belching and hiccups, restless and sleepless, difficult to fall asleep, or abdominal pain, or ungratifying defecation, etc.
In the TCM system, the pathogenic reasons of the Insomnia of the incoordination between spleen and stomach type are known from various origins, mainly because of the incoordination between the spleen and stomach, etc.