Ling Mei Dan (Sleep-promoting pellet)
Just like air, food and water, sleep is an essential necessity of life and an important foundation stone of human health. As said by Shakespeare: “Sleep is the source of vigor and the miraculous medicine for patients”.
Insomnia is the manifestation of sleep disorder and reflects the disorder of central nervous system. The incidence of insomnia is high in the population, and many people are involved. The incidence of insomnia is 35% in the United States, 10~15% in Britain, and 20% in Japan. Although reliable statistical data is not available in China, the clinical workers have estimated the incidence may be around 10% in the whole population, and as high as 70% in the seniors. The pathological cause and the treatment of insomnia may usually not be fully differentiated, and the medicine used is often no more than sleeping pills to inhibit the nervous system.
Ling Mei Dan N0. 3 (Sleep-promoting pellet No. 3)
[Main components] Root of Ginseng (radix Panax ginseng), Indian bread (Poria cocus) with pine root inside, root of Chinese angelica (radix Angelica sinensis), and others (processed from pure traditional Chinese medicine, none of western medicine is included).
[Efficacy] Tranquilize and calm the mind, nourish blood and replenish Qi.
[Indications] Hard to fall asleep, unstable or superficial sleeping, dysphylaxia, difficult to sleep again after awakening and others.
[Explanation of the prescription] As stated in Jingyuequanshu Bumei:”Because of the insufficiency of kidney Yin, essence and blood, and failure of combination between Yin and Yang, the spirit is thus not capable of being tranquil.” In this prescription, drugs for tranquilizing and calming are chosen as the “monarch”, drugs for nourishing blood and replenishing Qi are chosen as the “minister”. Through invigorating the heart Qi to enrich the heart blood, the mind will be restored due to the calmed heart Qi, and the mind will become stable due to the plentifulness of the heart Qi. |
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[Curative effect] The curative effect may generally be felt 1-30 hours after medication. Normal sleeping will be achieved about 15 days later and recovery can be achieved after consolidation. Patients whose sleeping should depend upon long-term medication of sedative may usually be cured if prolong the duration of taking Ling Mei Dan No. 3. |
[Precaution]
(1) This preparation can be taken directly if the patient does not take western sedative or sleeping pill. Whereas, patients who have taken long-term medication of sedative or sleeping pill should not stop these western medicines immediately when take Ling Mei Dan. They may gradually decrease western medicine along with the prolonging of sleeping time and the improvement of sleeping quality induced by Ling Mei Dan. If the decrease of western medicine were too sharp so that the quality of sleeping is not satisfactory, the amount of sedative or sleeping pill ought to increase appropriately. By way of adjusting the quantity, western medicine will finally be stopped, and recovery can be achieved after a period of consolidation; no more medication, neither western nor Chinese, will be needed thereafter, and no rebound will occur after stopping medication.
(2) Tea drinking is forbidden 15 min before and 30 min after medication.
(3) Patients with other diseases, including common cold, fever, cough, diarrhea due to acute gastroenteritis, as well as with excessive internal heat symptoms such as toothache and sore-throat, are not suitable to take this preparation simultaneously. |
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