Sleep or no sleep, that is the question
Posted on 08/28/2009 by Cathe in Articles |
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The early bird catches the worm, we often complain of not being quite awake and alert and on the other hand maybe you have sleep disorders. It seems a paradox! It is hard to stay awake during the day and do not rest at night!
Many fear the loss of valuable time and delay sleep even more time to go to bed gradually reversing the sleep wakefulness. Many are afraid to sleep and not taking hypnotic drugs become addicted.,
At one time there was talk of the sleep of the just, meaning thereby that those who behaved in the right way, they had no sleep problems. In our own century proposals, especially in recent decades, sleep disorders appear to be increasing.
Not only the elderly, postmenopausal women and people affected by diseases are affected but there are many so-called healthy people and even children and addolescenti suffering from such disorders.
To sleep disorder is defined as a sleep of poor quality and / or quantity: a non-restorative sleep, frequent awakenings, waking up early, late in falling, excessive dreams, nocturnal bruxism or muscle contractures. The estimated incidence is 15-20%, and childhood in a young child in preschool at 3.
The causes of these problems can be multiple and not lighthouse 'a boring dissertation on the various possibilities. However, it is useful to know that there are such cases vacuum (or lack thereof ...) as in the elderly and in women in menopause and causes full or to excess, and here we can put children and adults under stress.
I suffered from insomnia, performance anxiety during the college years, settled very well with a homeopathic product, unfortunately found only last year. Not having slept the night before important exams I had created a great fear, and so I sold the hypnotic from which I have released only with an effort of will 'every night by removing a fragment of the micro tablet to get one dose invisible.
Every so often I still have trouble falling asleep the next day if I do something important or a particular trip, the first year I got into the habit of using a single acupuncture point, the magical or LR3 Taichong for lovers of Chinese names, it is useful to tone it to disperse. I sleep without fail after less than 10 minutes.
Many of my patients, regardless of the problem that brings them to me, during the acupuncture treatment are surprised to sleep on a bed of taste, many refer me to sleep better or have changed the number of hours that the quality of their sleep.
These are the problems we have described an excess and there is nothing surprising, acupuncture treatment produces internal harmonization that results in a relaxation of external.
Several forms are to be empty. In this case, and 'necessary, in addition to a longer cycle of acupuncture, including the use of herbal medicine that allows, thanks to the properties of certain substances, to modify a part of important void.
E 'must not be tempted to make systematic use of hypnotic drugs. These drugs do not cure the disease but it makes it even more persistent, fatiguing the liver that is responsible for their metabolism and making the patient both psychologically and physically dependent on the molecule.
It 'also important not to let the insomnia becomes chronic, using As soon as the use of unconventional therapies. Insomnia for 20 years or more, as well as a pain treatment requires at least a year before being settled, and the risk becomes that of not being able to wait and give early treatment.
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Tags: Acupuncture , sleep disturbances , insomnia
