中医药治疗肝郁化火型失眠的研究进展

Research Progress of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Treating Liver-Fire Type Insomnia

失眠是现代临床的常见病,属于中医学"不寐"的范畴。随着现代生活节奏的加快,失眠的发病率呈不断上升趋势。现代人常因工作和人际关系的压力而存在不同程度的失眠症状,且临床证型多为肝郁化火型。其虽然不属于危重病症,但长期、持续的失眠会出现神疲乏力、头晕头痛、心悸健忘及全身无力等一系列症状,从而影响人们正常的工作、学习和生活。目前,西医针对失眠的治疗主要采用苯二氮艹卓类药物,但西药往往会产生嗜睡、疲乏、头昏和头痛等不良反应。而中医注重整体观念,治疗失眠时往往审症求因从整体调节下手,故在治疗上有明显的优势。未来,对失眠的治疗将偏向于中西医结合,运用多种手段进行综合治疗。

Insomnia is a common disease in clinic nowadays,and it belongs to the term ＂bu mei＂ in traditional Chi- nese medicine. With the rapid pace of the modem life, the incidence of insomnia has been rising up. Modern people often have sleepless symptoms of varying degrees because of the pressure from work and interpersonal relationship. So liver-fire type insomnia is often seen in clinical. Though insomnia is not one of the severe diseases, the continual insomnia makes people feel tired with syndromes of dizziness ,headache, palpitation and amnesia,which affect people＇s normal work, study and life. Nowadays, western medicine doctors often use medicines like benzodiazepine, which will have adverse effects of somnolence, tiredness and dizziness. However, Chinese medicine doctors emphasize on the integration and usually treat patients via identifying etiology from differentiation of syndromes and signs as a whole, which have an evident advantage over the western medicine doctors. The future treatment of insomnia will be integrated treatment of western medicine, Chinese medicine and other possible methods.