Insomnia

TCM Herbs Associated With Insomnia

Insomnia Is Associated With 15 TCM Herbs

Moisten the lungs, clear heat, and stop coughing - cough from dry lungs or lung heat, sore throat. Clear heat and calm the spirit - low fever, insomnia, restlessness, irritability in the aftermath of a febrile disease, palpitations from qi and/or yin deficiency.

Releases both exterior hot or cold (depending on how it is prepared), also good for exterior disorders with underlying yin deficiency (due to its mild nature). Eliminates irritability, restlessness, insomnia following febrile disease.

Promotes urination, drains dampness, transforms phlegm - urinary difficulty, diarrhea, edema, headache, dizziness, greasy tongue coat. Strengthens the spleen, harmonizes the middle jiao - diarrhea, loss of appetite. Quiets the heart and calms the spirit - palpitations, insomnia, forgetfulness.

Stops excessive sweating from deficiency patterns - nightsweats, spontaneous sweating. Nourish the heart - palpitations, insomnia, irritability. Childhood bedwetting.

Calms the spirit, relieves constrained emotions - vexation, depression, insomnia, irritability, poor memory. Invigorates the blood, alleviates pain - pain and swelling due to trauma, abscesses. The flower, He Huan Hua (ye he hua, ye he mi) has similar functions for calming the shen from liver con…

Tonifies liver and kidney, nourishes blood, augments essence - yin and/or blood deficiency w/dizziness, blurred vision, prematurely grey hair, weakness in the lower back and knees, sore limbs, insomnia, nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, vaginal discharge; neither cold, drying, nor too cloying. Re…

Drains fire, relieves toxicity - high fever, irritability, disorientation, delirium, painful, red eyes, red tongue, sore throat, boils, carbuncles, abscesses. Clears heat, drains dampness - for damp-heat in the stomach or intestine, diarrhea or dysenteric disorder, vomiting and/or acid regurgitati…

Arrest tremors, stop palpitations, calm the spirit - tremor, palpitation, anxiety, excessive dreams, insomnia, poor memory, convulsions, seizures. Invigorate the blood, dissipate stasis - amenorrhea with pain, palpable masses, coronary heart disease. Promote urination, invigorate the blood - xue …

Tonify the spleen and binds - chronic diarrhea, loss of appetite. Tonify the kidneys and stabilize the jing - stop leukorrhea and spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation. Nourish heart, calm the spirit - irritability, anxiety, palpitations, insomnia.

Calms the spirit - emotional distress, insomnia, palpitations, anxiety, seizures. Calms the liver, anchors floating yang - irritable, blurred vision, vertigo, bad temper. Prevents leakage of fluids due to deficiency - spermatorrhea, night sweats, spontaneous sweating, vaginal discharge, nocturnal…

Calms the spirit - palpitations, anxiety, restlessness, insomnia. Benefits the yin, anchors floating yang - irritable, insomnia, dizziness, headache, tinnitus, blurred vision, bad temper, red flushed face due to yin deficiency with ascending yang. Prevents leakage of fluids - continuous sweating …

Clears Heat, Cools Blood. High fever, thirst, scarlet tongue, hemorrhage due to heat in the Blood. Nourishes Yin, Generates Fluids. Yin Deficiency with heat signs with injury to body fluids. Dry mouth, low-grade fever, constipation, throat pain from yin deficiency. Cools Ascending Heart Fire (HT,…

Calms the spirit, nourishes the heart and blood - insomnia, irritability, dream disturbed sleep from yin and/or blood deficiency. Nourishes the blood and unblocks the channels - generalized weakness, soreness, pain, numbness due to blood deficiency. Alleviates itching - external wash for itching …

Calms the spirit, quiets the heart - insomnia, palpitations, anxiety, restlessness. Expels phlegm from the lungs, clears the heart orifices - copious sputum, mental confusion, seizures. Reduces abscesses, dissipate swellings - boils, sores, painful breasts.

Clears heat (Heart and Liver), eliminates irritability - heat patterns with fever, restlessness, insomnia, delirium, stifling sensation in the chest. Drains damp heat - lin (urinary dysfunction) syndrome due to damp-heat in the lower warmer, damp-heat and constrained liver and gallbladder causing …