Treatment of Chronic Insomnia in the Elderly Based on "Blood Excess Should Be Dissolved"
BIAN Xudong
ZHAO Xiaodong
GAO Fangling
WEN Dou
YANG Xiuyuan
LI Yingyu
DING Xia
Abstract："Blood excess should be dissolved"comes from Plain Conversation·Major Discussion on the Theory of Yin and Yang and the Coresponding Relationships Among All the Things in Nature,which refers to that the symptoms of blood stasis and blood stagnation are treated with acupuncture and medicine.Chronic insomnia is a common disease in the elderly,and internal accumulation of blood stasis is the core pathogenesis of chronic insomnia in the elderly.Clinical treatment of chronic insomnia in the elderly can follow the treatment principle of"blood excess should be dissolved"and Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction(血府逐瘀汤)is given as the basic prescription,which is modified according to different causes of blood stasis such as liver stagnation,phlegm fire,yin deficiency,qi deficiency,and blood deficiency,etc.At the same time,acupuncture,auricular points and other therapies can be combined to improve the curative efficacy.
Keywords：Blood excess should be dissolvedblood stasischronic insomnia in the elderlyXuefu Zhuyu Decoctionliver stagnationphlegm fireyin deficiencyqi deficiencyblood deficiency
Publication Date：2024-10-05
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 1079-1083 )