Remedies for Insomnia 6
Pears 3, rock sugar 25g. Wash pears, peel and slice, add water and boil for 20 minutes, add rock sugar to taste, divide into two portions and consume, drinking the broth and eating the pear. Originally used for symptoms of "wind-heat invading the heart, causing restlessness, confusion, and mental unease." Wind-heat invading the heart disturbs the spirit, causing restlessness, confusion, and sleeplessness at night. Treatment should clear heat, dispel wind, calm the heart, and soothe the spirit. Pear is the fruit of cultivated species of white pear, sand pear, or autumn pear (Rosaceae family). Taste sweet and slightly sour, nature cool. Excels at clearing heat and resolving phlegm, generating body fluids and moistening dryness. Combined with rock sugar, which tonifies the spleen and moistens the lungs, this forms a formula that clears heat, resolves phlegm, harmonizes the center, and calms the spirit.
Appropriate for insomnia caused by phlegm-heat disturbing the heart or heat illness damaging body fluids, leading to heart deficiency and lack of nourishment. If wind pathogen is prominent, add mint or chrysanthemum to disperse wind.<Insomnia>