中医外治失眠的研究进展

Research Progress of External Therapy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Insomnia

失眠是一种多因素导致的睡眠障碍,常伴有入睡困难、睡眠维持困难等症状,严重时可影响白天的学习、工作和生活,然而现代医学对失眠尚无理想的治疗手段。中医外治法作为中医特色疗法之一,治疗失眠方法多样,具有简、便、效、廉等优点,深受临床医师和患者的青睐。文章归纳了近年来针刺、艾灸、足浴、耳穴压豆、推拿、五行音乐、传统功法等常用中医外治法治疗失眠的相关文献,以期为失眠的临床诊治提供参考。

Insomnia is a multifactorial sleep disorder,often accompanied by difficulties in falling asleep and maintaining sleep,which can seriously affect daytime learning,work and life.However,there is no ideal treatment for insomnia in modern medicine.As one of the characteristic therapies of Chinese medicine,Chinese medicine external therapies have various methods of treating insomnia,and has the advantages of being simple,convenient,effective and inexpensive,so it is favored by clinicians and patients.In recent years,we have summarized the relevant literature on the treatment of insomnia with external therapy of traditional Chinese medicine,including acupuncture,moxibustion,footbath,auricular point pressure bean,massage,traditional Chinese medicine five elements music and Chinese Kungfu,etc.,and reviewed them as follows,with a view to providing reference for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of this disease.