英文摘要 |
In psychiatry, insomnia is categorized as a sleep disorder and is also one of the most common problems. The core symptoms of insomnia patients include shortened sleep time or an inability to fall into a deep sleep state, an incapacity to eliminate fatigue and restore energy, a feeling of lassitude after wakening-up. Modern medicine treats insomnia mostly with synthetic sedative drugs. Long-term use of these drugs often results in patients becoming dependent on the drug as well as exhibiting side effects.
This case report is a 54-year-old man who has suffered from insomnia and long-lasting depression for more than 10 years. Western psychiatric treatment failed to cure him. The patient’s state has actually become deteriorated. In the past month, the patient’s insomnia has worsened. He felt totally exhausted. His eyes are dry and itchy. He feels nausea after dinner, tinnitus, back aches, and feelings of unease as well as irritability. Thus he came to the hospital seeking Traditional Chinese Medicine therapy. Since he started taking the concentrated herbal extracts of ''Suan Tzao Ren Tang'' with ''Huanglian Wendan Tang'', he has been able to remain emotionally calm even though he has stopped all psychotropic medications except for Stilnox. Thanks to a good recovery of physical strength and a significant improvement in his insomnia and irritability, the patient very satisfied with the effect of the treatment.
From the therapy of the patient, Intervention of TCM in the patient who got the worsen curative effect of long-term administration of western hypnotics could improve the dis-comfortable syndromes of insomnia. Therefore, the insomnia patients could choose the Traditional Medicines after diagnosis of Traditional Physicians. The action of mechanism of this case will be further studied in the future. |