Insomnia will not only reduce people’s immunity and induce headaches, high blood pressure, heart disease, hyperlipidemia, Alzheimer’s disease and other diseases; it can also make people feel groggy all day long and make them forget things easily. Next, I will learn with you how to treat insomnia and dreaminess with moxibustion.

Moxibustion treats insomnia and dreaminess

To treat insomnia, we only need to perform moxibustion on Yongquan and Shenmen points to achieve the effect. Before starting moxibustion:

1. Soak your feet in warm water for half an hour. This can promote blood circulation, relax tense muscle tissue throughout the body, and make the body more comfortable. Moxibustion generally uses moxa sticks for mild moxibustion. If it is inconvenient for you to operate it, or the elderly have difficulty moving, you can ask your family members to help;

2. After lighting the moxa stick, first aim at the Yongquan point to feel Warm to a degree, be careful not to make it too hot, otherwise it will not have the hypnotic effect. Moxibustion can be performed on the Yongquan points on both feet at the same time or separately. It can take about fifteen minutes.

3. After moxibustion on the Yongquan point, moxibustion on the Shenmen point is also done on both hands for fifteen minutes.

According to practice, when moxibustion is applied to the soles of the feet, people with insomnia will generally feel the onset of drowsiness. When moxibustion is applied to the Shenmen point, the drowsiness becomes very strong, and usually they will fall asleep before the moxibustion is completed. If you still have stubborn insomnia and still don’t fall asleep after moxibustion, you can apply Yongquan moxibustion again and ask your attention to focus on the moxibustion area, which can generally help you fall asleep faster. Traditional Chinese Medicine’s method of treating insomnia and dreaminess

Dreaminess refers to a symptom of waking up from sleep and consciously having chaotic dreams, often accompanied by dizziness and fatigue.

Steps/Methods

Insufficient Heart Qi

Symptoms: Dreams and frights, insomnia, fatigue and drowsiness, shortness of breath, or crying and trance. , pale tongue, thin white fur, thin and weak pulse.

Treatment method: Nourishing blood and replenishing qi, calming the mind and calming the mind.

Recipe: Add or subtract Shenxiang Powder.

Drugs: 9g ginseng, 12g each of astragalus, poria, atractylodes and yam, 6g each of lotus flesh, amomum villosum, agarwood, sandalwood and licorice.

Insufficiency of heart and blood

Symptoms: palpitations, irritability and insomnia, excessive dreams and easily frightened, forgetfulness and dizziness, dull complexion, pale tongue, thready pulse.

Treatment method: Nourishing blood and calming the nerves.

Prescription: Siwu Decoction plus Rong Sha Dan.

Medicines: 12g each of Rehmannia glutinosa, Angelicae Sinensis, White Peony Root, and Ligusticum Chuanxiong, 6g each of Deer Antler and Cinnabar, and 18g fried jujube kernels.

Insufficient heart yin

Symptoms: palpitations, insomnia and dreaminess, five upset stomachs with heat, dry throat, red tongue with little fluid, and thready and rapid pulse.

Treatment method: Nourish yin, nourish the heart and calm the mind.

Prescription: Add or subtract the Yiqi Anshen Decoction.

Drugs: 12g each of angelica, poria, Ophiopogon japonicus and rehmannia root, 6g each of coptis, polygala, bamboo leaves, ginseng, astragalus, gallbladder, lotus seed heart, 18g jujube kernel, 3g cinnabar.

Heart and kidney disharmony

Symptoms: upset, insomnia, dreaminess, spermatorrhea, soreness of waist and legs, hot flashes and night sweats, red tongue without coating, thready and rapid pulse.

Treatment method: communicate with the heart and kidneys.

Recipe selection: Add or subtract Coptidis Ejiao Decoction.

Medicines: 9g each of Coptis chinensis, Scutellaria baicalensis, white peony root, and donkey-hide gelatin, 1 chicken roe yellow, and 12g keel bone. Methods to treat insomnia

1. Music and movies can help you sleep

Music can speak. It is recommended that you find some classical music, Beethoven, Bach, and lyrical piano music. Or violin music, these pieces sound very comfortable. Don't look for exciting music, which will make you irritable and restless. Play for half an hour before going to bed. You can use your computer to play it externally, or you can plug in your headphones and then set a timer to turn off the music.

You may not be able to fall asleep while listening to the music at first, but you have to adapt slowly, think of a scene along with the music, and let your mind wander continuously. Slowly, you will fall asleep.

If possible, you can find some warm and inspirational movies. After watching these movies, you will have more positive energy in your heart, which will offset the negative energy that makes you sleepless. Of course, provided you have enough time. If you have severe insomnia at work, then you can apply for a short vacation, give yourself a vacation, cultivate yourself, listen to music, watch movies, and you will never make enough money.

2. What should you think about when sleeping?

When sleeping, the most taboo thing to think about is: insomnia. Since you are suffering from insomnia, if you think about this word again, you will be even more unable to fall asleep and fall into a deeper state of insomnia. Therefore, when sleeping, you need to think about fantasy. Returning to your childhood, you can think about everything from all over the world. Experience has proved that "random thinking" will help you enter the dreamland faster.

Even if you still can’t fall asleep, you don’t have to worry, because once you lie down in bed, it is a kind of rest in itself, but you haven’t entered the dreamland or sleep yet. Slow down your mentality and don’t have any worries. Stress, just take things as they come, naturally, and you know, the key to falling asleep is calmness.

3. Carry out appropriate exercise

Experience has proven that exercise is a very good way to treat sleep. What people enjoy during exercise is joy, happiness, and satisfaction. Find a sport you like, make an appointment with your friends, go out and have a good sweat, it's better than staying at home.