Insomnia Health Science Research

Insomnia becomes the more popular disease of human beings with the rising living level and extensive social activities in the global commercial and industrial society. There are many complex factors, such as age, environmental, social, psychological, personal factor and human diseases, etc., affecting the development of insomnia symptoms. Insomnia is one kind of neurology/psychiatry diseases, due to brain overstrains and stresses in the nerve center system, in Western Medicine (WM), while there are approximately two factors that can cause the insomnia symptoms, including the anti-pathogenic- qi (vital) deficiency and the pathogenic-factors (evil) invasion in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM or CM). The pathological factors (etiology) and mechanisms (pathology) of CM resulting in insomnia are a lot of causes and varied, such as abnormal climatic changes, pestilence infection, seven-emotional-factors stimulation, dietary ignorance, overstrain and stress, functional disorders of yin and yang, qi and blood, and zang-fu organs. The treatment of insomnia therapy in WM and CM is to reduce or to eliminate the cause factors of disease. The potent treatment of WM and CM insomnia therapies is drug therapy. The WM drug therapy of insomnia is the use of sleeping, sleeping-aid or anti-insomnia pills, while the drug harmony treatment of the relative balance of cerebrum function, heart zang-viscera and spiritual activities in CM after syndrome differentiation. In CM drug therapy of insomnia, the principal treatment is the use of supplementing the vital deficient and eliminating the evil surplus, and of regulating the balance of the functional orders of yin and yang, qi and blood, and zang-fu organs. The optimal and ideal therapy of insomnia in WM and CM is the treatment of drug therapy combined with non-drug therapy.At present and in the future, the most optimal insomnia therapy is the health-care preservation treatment with CM (TCM) characteristics. The characteristics of TCM health-care preservation include the prevention before insomnia occurs and the treatment before insomnia develops. It is also including the early diagnosis and treatment before insomnia develops, the treatment aimed at the root of insomnia, the vital strengthening treatment and the evil dispelling treatment, the regulating treatments of the functional orders of yin and yang, qi and blood, and zang-fu organs, the season, locality and individual treatment. The R & D time and cost of insomnia drug therapy for the international commercializing pharmaceutical level are very long and much high, respectively. Based on the viewpoint of TCM health-care preservation, the medicinal drugs and diets are the same sources, and food diets are better than medicinal diets. In addition, the acupuncture treatment for insomnia therapy is the simply and fast method to improve the sleeping function or sleeping aid. Therefore, the insomnia DIY therapy becomes very economical and convenient if the treatments of food or medicinal diets...