从胆论治小儿睡惊症

Discussion on treating sleep disorder in children from gallbladder

小儿睡惊症是表现为睡眠障碍的一类神经精神性疾病,在中医被称为"夜惊"。长期而持续的睡眠障碍有可能会造成严重后果,逐渐发展为儿童明显的行为问题,如小儿抽动秽语综合征、强迫症、遗尿症等。传统理论认为,小儿睡惊症与小儿"心常有余""肝常有余""阳常有余"有关,但是通过对于临床的观察发现,小儿睡惊症的病位非独在"心、肝",它与胆气的充盛与否关系十分密切。临床上通过采用从胆论治的方法治疗小儿睡惊症,疗效令人满意。

Sleep disorder in children is a neuropsychiatric disease, which is called ‘night terrors' in TCM, it will cause serious problems like tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, primary nocturnal enuresis etc.Traditional theory deems that this disease is related to ‘exuberance of heart fire', ‘exuberance of liver fire', and ‘yang excess'.However, through clinical observation found that the disease location of children with sleep disorders is not alone in the ‘heart and liver', it is closely related with gallbladder qi.The curative effect of treating children with sleep disorders from gallbladder is satisfactory.