New study results: TCM and disorded sleep

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New study results: TCM and disorded sleep

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This study compared treating people with hypertension and disordered sleep (they do not say in what way, however) with traditional Chinese medicine. The results were positive:

http://www.websciences.org/cftemplate/N ... D=20065259

(copied below in case the link fails at some point)

OBJECTIVE: To study the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in treating somnipathy in patients with hypertension, and to observe the change of blood pressure after sleep being improved. METHODS: Two hundred and thirty-nine patients with hypertension accompanied somnipathy were randomly assigned to two groups, 123 patients in the treated group were treated with TCM according to syndrome differentiation, and 116 in the control group treated with Estazolam. Changes of blood pressure, scores of sleep dysfunction rating scale (SDRS), Hamilton anxiety rating scale (HAMA) and treatment emergent symptom scale (TESS) before and after treatment were observed. RESULTS: TCM showed a significant effect on hypnagogic disturbance, and significantly reduced the scores of insomnia syndromes in early sleep stage, improve the quality of sleep, prolong the sleeping time to fulfill the physiological requirement, the total effective rate being 80.5% (99/123 cases), with the overall effect higher than that (66.4%, 77/116 cases) in the control group (P < 0.05). Along with the improving of sleep, blood pressure, both systolic and diastolic, reduced in both groups, but with the reduction in the treated group superior to that in the control group (P < 0.01), and the rate of reaching target BP (< 140/90 mmHg) in the former was also significantly higher than that in the latter (39.7%, 46/116 cases, P < 0.05). As compared with those in the control group, the occurence of adverse reaction, were less in the treated group (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: TCM has better efficacy in treating somnipathy of hypertension patients than Estazolam. And the improvement of somnipathy is favorable for improving the hypertensive condition of patient
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