What does traditional Chinese medicine mean when it comes to "stomach and stomach are uneasy"?
"If the stomach is not harmonious, you will feel restless" originated from "Su Wen•Reverse Comment". In "Su Wen•Reverse Comment", there is also a discussion that "the abdomen is full and angry, and the stomach is unresolved afterwards, and does not want to eat, and vomits when eating, and cannot lie down." The above two statements are the same, which means that improper diet can cause spleen and stomach dysfunction, which can affect sleep.
Traditional and Five Elements Generation and Resistance Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that the spleen is the son of the heart, and the spleen and stomach are in the exterior and interior, and is responsible for the transportation and transformation of water and grain, spleen and stomach dysfunction, stagnation of prescription and food, or gastrointestinal heat accumulation, stomach failure and descending, child disease and mother, affect the mind, cause restlessness, and insomnia.
Modern medicine has also confirmed that after eating, people have enhanced digestive function and increased parasympathetic nerve excitability. Correspondingly, sympathetic nerve activity level is reduced, and people can fall asleep. If you are too full or too hungry, the impulse emitted from the gastrointestinal tract stimulates the reticular structure of the brain stem, and then stimulates the cerebral cortex, making it difficult to fall asleep.
A large number of clinical practices have confirmed that all patients with neurasthenia who are mainly insomnia often have symptoms of gastric qi discomfort such as poor , abdominal distension, chest tightness and heating, vomiting and acid stool, and disordered stool. According to this feature, the treatment is done by regulating the spleen and stomach functions and using the method of "harmonizing stomach qi" and has achieved good results.
Chinese medicine commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine Baohe Wan , which takes its effect of abolishing food and guiding stagnation to treat insomnia, and its basis is also the above principle. "If the stomach is not harmonious, it will cause restlessness" is a major feature of traditional Chinese medicine in treating insomnia. For insomnia patients with epigastric discomfort, it is important to pay attention to regulating the spleen and stomach functions to harmonize the spleen and stomach. It can often achieve the effect of self-healing of insomnia without using sedative and sleep aiding agents.
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