SHI Jianing,CHAI Ruijia,HUANG Yao,et al.Effect of Yishen Ningxin Formula (益神宁心方) on Melatonin and Cortisol Levels in Saliva of Primary Insomnia Patients with Heart-spleen Deficiency Pattern[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2021,62(24):2157-2163.
SHI Jianing,CHAI Ruijia,HUANG Yao,et al.Effect of Yishen Ningxin Formula (益神宁心方) on Melatonin and Cortisol Levels in Saliva of Primary Insomnia Patients with Heart-spleen Deficiency Pattern[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2021,62(24):2157-2163.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2021.24.009.
Effect of Yishen Ningxin Formula (益神宁心方) on Melatonin and Cortisol Levels in Saliva of Primary Insomnia Patients with Heart-spleen Deficiency Pattern
(益神宁心方) in the treatment of primary insomnia due to heart and spleen deficiency, and to explore the possible mechanism.
Methods
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Totally 130 primary insomnia patients with heart-spleen deficiency pattern were randomly divided into treatment group and control group with 65 patients in each group. The treatment group was given
Yishen Ningxin Formula
,taken with warm water half an hour after dinner, while the control group was treated with zolpidem tartrate tablets, once daily in the evening, 10 mg each time before sleep; the treatment course of both groups lasted for four weeks. The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome score and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) score were assessed before treatment and two as well as four weeks after treatment; the clinical effect and TCM syndrome efficacy were evaluated after 4 weeks of treatment. Saliva samples at 12:00, 16:00, 20:00, and 24:00 in the same day within 3 days before and after treatment were tested for the concentration of melatonin (MT) and cortisol (CORT).
Results
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There were 64 complete cases and one drop-out in the treatment group, and 62 complete cases and three drop-outs in the control group. The total effective rate of insomnia and that of TCM syndromes in the treatment group were 92.19% and 85.94%, respectively, while those in the control group were 83.87% and 64.52% (
P
<0.05). After two weeks and four weeks of treatment, the score of overall TCM symptoms and of single symptom in the treatment group were decreased (
P
<0.05), and the scores of palpitations, poor memory, mental fatigue, poor appetite, pale complexion, tongue manifestation, pulse manifestation, and the overall score in the treatment group were lower than those in the control group (
P
<0.05). After two weeks and 4 weeks of treatment, the PSQI overall score and the domain scores in the treatment group significantly decreased (
P
<0.05), and the scores of sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleeping medication, and daytime dysfunction in the treatment group were lower than those in the control group measured at the same timepoint (
P
<0.05). The total score of PSQI in the treatment group was lower than that in the control group after 4 weeks of treatment (
P
<0.05). The salivary MT at 24:00 significantly increased after treatment, and more increase was seen in the treatment group than in the control group (
P
<0.05). The levels of salivary CORT at 12:00. 16:00, 20:00 and 24:00 were significantly reduced after treatment in both groups (
P
<0.05).
Conclusion
2
Yishen Ningxin Formula
can effectively improve the clinical symptoms and TCM syndromes of patients with primary insomnia due to heart-spleen deficiency, and the mechanism may be related to its regulating effect on the levels of salivary MT and CORT and circadian rhythms.
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