Insufficient sleep is unhealthy. Untreated sleep disorders can lead to serious illness.
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Insufficient sleep is unhealthy. Sleeping disorders (insomnia) can lead to severe illnesses if the causes are left untreated. If the body does not get enough sleep its aging process accelerates, and organ functions can be impaired in the long term. Sleeping disorders may cause disorders of the mental and physical equilibrium, and vice versa.
Sleeping disorders generally do not occur in isolation. People affected by these usually have other symptoms simultaneously. That’s why it is difficult to recognise the causal chains of sleeping disorders.
There is often a correlation between the causes of the symptoms listed above and sleeping disorders. An examination and treatment geared toward causes is thus invaluable. External impairments caused by the environment or personal behaviour can largely only be altered by the individual. These include disruptions to sleep caused by heat and stuffy bedrooms, excessive eating late in the evening, excessive consumption of caffeine and alcohol, and others.
Fever, after-effects of surgery, pain, ingestion of strong medications/antibiotics may be the cause of acute sleeping issues. These can be specifically treated with individual measures, especially if the causes of the acute sleeping issues are apparent. Western specialist medicine has means of treating this.
People affected by sleeping disorders often list worry, stress and mental problems as the reasons for their sleeping issues. Eastern and Western medicine agree. However, many people undergoing stress also have no problems sleeping. Even in extreme situations such as wartime, stress does not necessarily cause sleeping disorders.
TCM pays somewhat greater consideration than Western specialist medicine to organ function disorders potentially playing a role in sleeping disorders. For example, TCM textbooks show that a spleen and kidneys that function in a good and balanced manner are highly significant for falling asleep and sleeping through the night.
Sleeping disorders were classified in TCM accordingly. Imbalance manifests as fullness (“too much”) and/or deficiency (“too little”). In the language of TCM, “too much” is referred to as “heat” or “fire”, affecting the heart and liver. A deficiency of yin in the heart, kidneys and gallbladder, and splenic blood deficiency indicate “too little” for the organs to function in a balanced way.
However, the relationship between sleeping disorders and digestive disorders is not properly identified by traditional Chinese medicine or Western specialist medicine. Because if one analyses the treatment instructions of TCM for organ disorders, one learns that sleeping disorders have physical pre-existing illnesses with connections that lie in the metabolism and digestive system.
It is known in Western specialist medicine that infections are significantly involved in these disorders. Unfortunately it is not common for this knowledge to be considered in medical diagnoses and treatment.
Insight from specialist medicine and TCM must be consolidated in order to properly interpret these correlations. Normamed’s cause-based medicine provides the foundation for this, further develops the medicine of both cultures and thus creates new possibilities for diagnosis and treatment.
It is crucial to note that infections may have already damaged the body in ways noticeable and unnoticeable over a long period of time. This can often occur as a result of unnoticed infections.
Disease-causing yeasts such as Candida albicans, Candida parapsilosis and other pathogenic Candida species, parasites like protozoa and worms can impair organ functions in the long term.
They severely irritate the digestive system and overwhelm the immune system without it being immediately detectable. Bacterial infections like Helicobacter pylori can severely jeopardise one’s health when left untreated, and lead to symptoms beyond the common ones described in the literature.
There are negative interactions between digestion, metabolism, organ functions and microorganisms. Pathogenic, i.e. disease-causing, bacteria are usually responsible for these interactions.
Normamed’s fiduciary physician clarifies possible bodily causes of sleeping disorders based on Normamed’s diagnosis standards. The specially developed diagnosis method follows a standardised procedure. Clearly defined quality guidelines are observed within specified inspection parameters.
The valuable and proven measures of Western scientific medicine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are combined in order to clarify the correlations between infections, digestive/organ/metabolic disorders, immune system disorders and sleeping disorders.
Information from infectiological examinations are taken from microbiology, imaging measures such as ultrasounds, and pulse and tongue diagnostics from TCM and combined into a cause-based medical method. This independent branch of medicine opens up new diagnostic and treatment possibilities, resulting in new ways to treat sleeping disorders burnout in areas where Western specialist medicine and traditional Chinese medicine are unable or barely able to find solutions.