Professor Zhang Zhiming's Experience in Treating Insomnia with Danzhi Xiaoyao Powder
Professor Zhang Zhiming believes that the soul cannot hide in the liver,Yang-Qi moves without being still,the spirit cannot hide,and all this is caused by the disorder of catharsis of liver,which causes insomnia.He emphasized that the disease should be differentiated to survey the pathogenesis in clinical treatment,and it could be treated from the pathogenesis;the prescription and syndromes were analyzed to understand what the prescriptions could be applied for;Danzhi Xiaoyao powder could be chosen as the main prescription for the patients suffering liver stagnation type of insomnia,modifying according to the symptoms in syndrome differentia-tion,meanwhile,combined with the method of clearing heat and cooling blood,activating blood and removing stasis,thereby treating insomnia.