Miraculous
Effects of Yang's Therapy of “Xing Pi Kai Qiao Decoction” (Activating
the Spleen-qi and Inducing Resuscitation)
What is somnolence?
Somnolence and narcolepsy share
the similar symptoms of feeling sleepy at anytime or anywhere no
matter day or night; when talking with others, having classes or
attending a lecture, he/she may begin to gape suddenly, lie down
or lower his/her head and fall asleep; when having meals, he/she
may even fall asleep while throwing the bowl down onto the ground;
when riding a bicycle, due to the feeling of sleepy, he/she may
put down his/her bicycle, lie down and fall asleep or even fall
asleep without getting off the bicycle and fall into the canal.
About 5% of these patients are accompanied with sleep paralysis,
i.e. inability to move or speak but with clear consciousness, often
accompanied with anxiety, impatience, attempt to cry out and move
his/her body but also could not manage to do so. If he/she is touched
by someone at this time, his/her sleep paralysis will disappear
immediately, which is named as “beiyahuzi” (nabbed by a tiny fox)
among the folk people. Some patients may also experience the co-morbidity
of hypnagogic hallucination, i.e. before falling asleep, he/she
could see non-existent things or hear unreal sound, with clear contents
and pictures; some may see savage birds and beasts which would induce
the sense of horror. Moreover, some patients are also accompanied
with headache, diplopia and poor concentration with varying degrees.
Such a disease has been considered by some folk people as the result
of being bothered by evils, so they go to pray for deities rather
than go to see doctors.
Adolescents, middle-aged or the elderly
people could suffer from somnolence. For students, somnolence may
affect their studies or even make them drop out of school; for the
adolescents and middle-aged people, somnolence may affect their
work and even cause errors or accidents; and for the elderly, somnolence
may induce the sudden worsening of cardio-cerebral vascular diseases.
It is estimated that, the incidence of traffic accident in somnolent
patients is 16 folds higher than that of the healthy people, especially
when somnolence occurs while the patient is driving, the risk of
serious traffic accidents is extremely high. Thus, somnolence is
worthy of much attention. |
