A report on a patient with a tendency to somnolence well treated with "Sansonin-To" / 日本東洋医学雑誌

ABSTRACT

This paper reported a patient of a tendency to somnolence well treated with “Sansonin-to”. The patient was a 52-year-old house wife, small and lean, who always felt tired and had an intense desire and tendency to sleep in spite of a lot of sleep in nights. Her abdominal tonus was rather soft, and pulsation above the navel and tenderness besides the navel were evidently noticed.<br>At first, Toki-syakuyaku-san-ka-bushi (Dang-Gui-Shao-Yao-San-Jia-Fu-Zi) and Sansonin-to (Suan-Zao-Ren-Tang) were prescribed alternately every fourth day for one month, and afterwards, Sansonin-to was given predominantly, being Toki-syakuyaku-san concurrently. After about two months, the tendency to somnolence was completely improved.<br>In view of the effective results, already reported by us, of two insomniac patients with Sansonin-to, the decoction, Sansonin-to, can be inferred to have an effective function to both insomnia and somnolence. Regardless of the procedure of “roasting or no-roasting” the seed of Zizyphus jujuba Mill before boiling and making a medical decoction, some essential compositions of the seed might be necessary to be extracted into the decoction.