GUO Yi's Experience in Treating Narcolepsy with"Four Dredging Methods"
ZHOU Jiangqi
MA Liang
GUO Yi
Abstract：Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder disease,with the main clinical symptoms of daytime sleepiness,cataplexy,nighttime hallucinations,and sleep paralysis.Professor GUO Yi believes that the etiology and pathogenesis of narcolepsy are mainly based on spleen-kidney yang deficiency,with phlegm turbidity and blood stasis as manifestations.In terms of treatment,attention should be paid to warming and tonifying yang qi,resolving phlegm and removing blood stasis,and attaching importance to regulating emotions.The application of the"four dredging methods"—drugs to dredge the spleen and kidney by warming and tonifying the spleen and kidney,regulating qi and blood;acupuncture to dredge the heart and kidney by stimulating the heart-kidney connection and regulat-ing qi and strengthening the spleen,bloodletting to dredge the brain and refresh the mind by selecting the hand twelve Jing acupoints for puncture and bloodletting,and moxibustion to dredge the yang qi of the governor vessel and the whole body to warm the body's yang qi and achieve the effects of warming the governor vessel and awakening the spirit.
Keywords：narcolepsyfour dredging methodscombination of acupuncture and medicineblood-letting at Jing acupointsmoxibustion on governor vesselGUO Yi
Publication Date：2026-03-05
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 319-322 )