Study on the effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine psychological sleep regulation technology on insomnia with deficiency of heart and gallbladder qi / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:We study the clinical effect of (Traditional Chinese Medicine) TCM psychological sleep regulation technique in treating insomnia with deficiency of heart and gallbladder qi.Methods:A total of 60 patients from the Sleep Medicine Special Outpatient Department of Guang’anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, who met the inclusion criteria from June 2020 to March 2021, were divided into 2 groups with 30 in each group, by random number table method. The treatment group were treated with TCM psychological sleep regulation technology. The control group were treated with Zopiclone tablets for 4 weeks. We used the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) to assess the severity of insomnia, the self-developed TCM syndrome to assess the severity of symptoms, and the Dysfunctional Beliefs and Attitudes Scale to assess the unreasonable cognition related to sleep before and after treatment. The Treatment Emergent Symptom Scale (TESS) was used to assess the safety of the 2 groups in the 4th week of treatment.Results:The total effective rate was 77.7% (23/30) in the treatment group and 80.0% (24/30) in the control group. There was no significant difference between the two groups ( χ2=0.098, P=0.754). After treatment, the score of TCM syndromes in the treatment group (5.15 ± 2.66 vs. 8.98 ± 2.05, t=-1.552) was significantly lower than that of the control group ( P<0.05), and the DBAS-30 score (125.84 ± 20.57 vs. 82.89 ± 21.64, t=2.445) was significantly higher than that of the control group ( P<0.05). Conclusions:TCM psychological sleep control technology can improve the clinical symptoms of patients with insomnia, and heart and gallbladder qi deficiency. The efficacy is similar to that of Zopiclone, and it is superior to western medicine in improving beliefs and attitudes of sleep.