What are the medications used to treat insomnia? How to choose?

It is mainly divided into two kinds of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, Chinese medicine has Chinese patent medicine Jieyu pills, etc., Jieyu pills are composed of ten flavors of Chinese herbal medicine, which has the advantages of easy to take and easy to carry. Western medicine is more complicated, in addition to the common sleeping pills on the market, there are also some health products that can also regulate insomnia. However, most of the Western medicines have ***, and they can't suffer from insomnia, so it is recommended to take Chinese medicine to recuperate, and treat both the symptoms and the root causes.

You can try Chinese patent medicine antidepressant pills, I took it for a while, and the effect is not bad. At the same time, doing more outdoor exercise can also promote sleep well. There's a lot more to learn about.

Insomnia is mostly caused by neurasthenia, depression or irregular work and rest, etc., and can be carried out after seeking medical treatment under the guidance of a professional doctor, according to **taking sedative sleep aid drugs or antidepressant drugs with sleep-improving effects**.

1.Neurasthenia: It is mostly caused by overwork, mental tension and long-term depression, etc., and can be carried out by oral clonazepam, diazepam and other sedative sleep aids**.

2.Depression: For insomnia caused by depression, patients can take oral antidepressants such as doxepin and amitriptyline that have sleep-improving effects**.

3.Irregular work and rest: due to excessive sleep during the day, often staying up late and other reasons, it may lead to sleep disorders, insomnia, etc., can be taken orally with sedative sleep aids such as zopiclone and zolpidem**.

The above drugs must be taken under the guidance of a professional doctor, according to the doctor's instructions, and the patient's condition must be observed, and once there is an adverse reaction, feedback to the doctor in time to adjust the medication.

If you have long-term insomnia and affect your normal work, study and life, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time, and make a clear diagnosis under the guidance of a professional doctor.

Find the cause first, insomnia can be listened to**, bathing, foot soaking, and other improvements

1. Trazodone: Trazodone**insomnia is more common than **depression. In the early study, 9 patients were given trazodone 150mg night for 3 weeks, and compared before and after the drug withdrawal, it was found that trazodone did not improve sleep latency or total sleep time, but reduced arousal, increased slow-wave sleep, and improved subjective sleep quality, suggesting that trazodone could at least short-term primary insomnia, but the effect of 50mg was not as good as zolpidem 10mg.

2. L-tryptophan: the matrix for synthesizing melatonin and promoting sleep. According to data released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in February 2001, at least 1,500 cases of L-tryptophan in 1989 caused eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome, of which 37 died, so the addition of L-tryptophan to food was restricted.