1Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pingtung Hospital, Ministry of Health and
Welfare, Pingtung, Taiwan
2Master of science, Department of Public Health, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
3Traditional Chinese Medicine Department, E-da Cancer Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
4The School of Chinese Medicine for Post-Baccalaureate, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
【Summary】
In the hustle and bustle modernized society, many psychotic patients who has been under regular treatment in psychiatric clinic, would get their sleep disturbance worsening, if unexpected major event occurred. It may result in daytime low spirit, frequent nervousness, and even other basic physiological function disturbance, such as having a meal or digestion. Therefore, other than under regular medicine in psychiatric clinic, many patients would also refer to traditional Chinese medicine department, or seek kampo medicine. As a professionally-trained traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, in addition to figure out sleep physiology and the pharmacology of those psychiatric medicine, we also have to carefully distinguish the type of sleep disturbance under traditional Chinese medicine. It may be our priority to pick up the appropriate opportunity for the intervention of TCM medicine, and track its effect. It would be our progress to decrease the dosage of sleeping pills at night, even if the daytime regular psychiatric medicine still the same. It was the road less travelled in the past, but would be necessary in the future to integrate psychiatric medicine with traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of sleep disturbance.
【Keywords】Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kampo (or Kanpo) Medicine, Sleep
232.10 中醫藥治療睡眠障礙病例報告
