The Role Of Chinese Medicine As Nature's Insomnia Cure
As a growing number of people are turning towards the use of Chinese herbal medicine (normally referred to as alternative medicine) it is no surprise to learn that the Chinese have had a natural herbal treatmnent for insomnia for many hundreds of years.
The practice of traditional Chinese medicine today brings together many hundereds of years of medical practice in China including the use of Chinese medicine as a natural insomnia cure. The term 'traditional Chinese medicine' is a reasonably modern term first coined by the People's Republic of China during the 1950s when the country was trying to build a substantial export trade for its time honored medicines and medical practices.
Nowadays, traditional Chinese medicine does not only include medicinal products, but also includes such things as herbal preparations and a number of practices including acupuncture and massage. The principle behind traditional Chinese medicine is that the human body functions as the result of numerous interrelated processes which are in constant interaction with the environment around us. Providing these processes stay balanced you are healthy. But, if these processes are not running alongside one another smoothly, then your health suffers.
There are several different philosophies which govern the practice of Chinese medicine including such things as the theory of Yin-Yang, the role of the five elements (water, earth, wood, fire and metal), energy flow along the meridians of the body and the interaction of the organs of the body as set out in the theory of Zang-Fu.
For many years there has been a great deal of conflict between those who follow traditional Chinese medical practices and those who believe in the science-based practice of western medicine. Nowadays however traditional Chinese medicine, together with other types of Asian and Oriental medicine, is increasingly gaining acceptance in the west and today we usually refer to such practices as alternative medicine.
For many millions of sufferers around the world, herbal remedies have long proved to be effective as a cure for insomnia, or in relieving insomnia symptoms, and such things as chamomile, lavender, lemon balm and passion flower have been known for a long time for their medicinal properties. There surely cannot be very many insomnia sufferers who have not tried a drink of hot honey with lemon balm before turning in for the night.
A growing number of people are also turning to acupuncture or, for those people who do not fancy the thought of needles, acupressure. Both of these arts have been in use for centuries and the principles arose out of the traditional Chinese practice of adjusting the energy in the body by controlling its flow along the meridian lines.
In spite of its growing acceptance there are still a substantial number of people who are wary of traditional Chinese medicine but anyone who has had experience of it in action, especially those of us who have been lucky enough to spend time living in the Far East, will most certainly vouch for its effectiveness.
If you are unfortunate enough to suffer from insomnia then using traditional Chinese medicine to cure insomnia naturally is one course of action which you should certainly consider very seriously.
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