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- Insomnia can lead to serious mental and physical health issues, and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) offers long-standing herbal remedies for treatment.
- Research over the past 8 years identified 21 medicinal plants and 15 herbal prescriptions that help improve sleep by examining both TCM and modern pharmacology perspectives.
- This study aims to support the use of these herbal resources for insomnia treatment, offering insights for developing more effective therapeutic options.
Article Abstract
Insomnia can have a negative impact on people's life or even cause mental or physical diseases. In China, the usage of medicine food homology herbal resources to treat insomnia has a long history. This review, which is based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), summarizes the research progress of medicine and food homology (MFH) resources in treating insomnia. Through literature search from the last 8 years, we compared the understanding of insomnia between TCM and modern pharmacology, found 21 kinds of MFH plants and 15 kinds of prescriptions containing MFH plants that have the effect of improving sleep and summarized the mechanism of their treatment of insomnia. Our study will provide theoretical support for the development and utilization of MFH plant resources with sleep-enhancing properties and provide positive insights and direction references for more effective treatment of insomnia disease.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11584607 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e40067 | DOI Listing |
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