睡眠生理参数的中医解读初探

A preliminary study on understanding the multiple physiological parameters during sleep in light of traditional Chinese medicine

目的 探索以中医基础理论指导、通过睡眠认识人体身心状态的方法.方法 以一种自然睡眠检测技术为平台,通过对2 000余例受试者睡眠检测数据和临床资料的分析,提出睡眠周期反映经脉循行的假说,并初步探索夜间睡眠参数趋势中的气血阴阳信息.结果 睡眠周期是睡眠过程中气血依时辰在不同经脉间循行的表现；经脉或相关脏腑的疾病状态下,睡眠的周期性以及睡眠结构会发生相应变化；夜间睡眠过程中的心率、呼吸率等动态变化同样反映了阴阳的交替、推移.结论 可将睡眠过程参数判读作为中医辨证手段的补充.

Objective This study aimed to understand the continuous physiological parameters during sleep under the guidance of Chinese medical theory and clinical practice and to establish the method to diagnose the physical and mental status by analyzing nocturnal sleep data.Methods More than 2000 subjects were recruited in the nocturnal sleep examination using the micro-movement sensitive mattress sleep monitoring system.Based on the analysis of the sleep indices and nocturnal physiological parameters combined with clinical data,a hypothesis was put forward that sleep cycle could reflect the circulation status of qi and blood,as well as some preliminary exploration on revealing the status of qi,blood,yin and yang.Results Sleep structure could reflect the status of qi and blood circulation in different meridians according to the traditional Chinese time unit.Sleep structure and sleep cycle could show corresponding changes if there is morbidity in some meridian,zang-viscera and fu-viscera.Heart rate,respiration rate and other physiological parameters could reflect the alternative predominance of yin and yang.Conclusion Interpreting the physiological parameters during sleep could be a supplementary diagnosis method for Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation.