Treatment of post-coronary insomnia from the perspective of deficiency

YuNing DU; EnLong Wang

doi:10.62051/kf5a4d12

Authors

YuNing DU
EnLong Wang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62051/kf5a4d12

Keywords:

Coronavirus disease 2019; Long-COVID; Insomnia after COVID-19; Treat from the debilitated; treatment based on pattern differentiation.

Abstract

The widespread epidemic of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide has had a tremendous impact on both human life and health. The mechanism and treatment of the post-COVID symptoms after acute infection in patients with the COVID-19 has become an important research content at present. Insomnia is one of the most common sequelae after COVID-19. Modern medicine believes that the pathogenesis of insomnia after COVID-19 is related to psychological factors, persistent inflammatory reaction and immune system disorder, etc. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM), after the patient was infected with COVID-19, he had a deficiency after a serious illness, which led to the insomnia that the human body's Rong Wei was out of harmony and the yin and yang were out of harmony, and differentiate between different types of evidence found that the patient mostly manifested Deficiency of both qi and yin syndrome, Syndrome of non-interaction between the heart and kidney, Heart-spleen deficiency syndrome, Pattern of qi deficiency of both heart and gallbladder, etc., so the treatment should be based on the thesis of “deficiency” and should make full use of the theoretical features of Chinese medicine, such as "Theory of developing appropriate treatment according to three types of disease causes" and "Strengthening healthy qi to eliminate pathogenic factors",to adjust the physique of the patient after a serious illness, and at the same time take care of the spleen and stomach, so as to prevent the symptoms from recurring and to help the patient to restore his health as soon as possible.

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