YANG Lei,YUE Guangxin,FAN Xinrong.Discussion on the Mechanism of Insomnia “Yang not entering Yin” based on Wei Qi (卫气)'s Circulation at Day and Night[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2022,63(19):1806-1811.
YANG Lei,YUE Guangxin,FAN Xinrong.Discussion on the Mechanism of Insomnia “Yang not entering Yin” based on Wei Qi (卫气)'s Circulation at Day and Night[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2022,63(19):1806-1811.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2022.19.002.
Discussion on the Mechanism of Insomnia “Yang not entering Yin” based on Wei Qi (卫气)'s Circulation at Day and Night
's different circulation at day and night split sleep soundly. In the daytime,
wei qi
circulates along “
yang
”, namely six hand-foot
yang
channels and
yin fen
(阴分), while at night it moves along “
yin
”, that is the five
zang
(脏) organs. People fall asleep when
wei qi
enters
yin
from
yang,
and
yangming
(阳明)
channel,
yangqiao mai (
阳跷脉
)
and the corresponding five
zang
organs'
functions are the central nodes to maintain sleep. Based on
wei qi'
s circulation route at day and night, the mechanism of “
yang
not entering
yin
” is manifested as
yangming
channel counterflow,
yangqiao mai
exuberance, and dysfunction of the five
zang
organs such as kidney failing to store essence, exuberance of heart fire, lung failing to govern purification and descent, hyperacti-vity of liver to ascend, and spleen failing to transport.