RT Article

A1 Wang B

T1 Diagnostic observations of Traditional Chinese Medicine on organ dysfunction in patients with sleep disorders and infections.

T2 Observational Study

ED Normamed. Publications for Cause Medicine

YR 2023

RD 7/8/2023 

UL https://doi.org/10.61029/normamed.2023.02.en

AB A total of 166 patients with chronic sleep disorders were examined ? in parallel to a general medical, laboratory medical and microbiological diagnostic monitoring ? by TCM diagnostics comprising approach, anamnesis, pulse and tongue diagnostics. 79 percent of the patients examined had infections, 92 percent had digestive disorders.


Chronic sleep disorders in general stand on the tail end of a physical process. Moreover, they are the result of a progressive chain reaction. An infection-related spleen overload can lead to a kidney overload (spleen-kidney yin weakness). This is combined with digestive disorders and other organ dysfunctions (liver and heart) acting in tandem. The purpose of the study was to examine the processes and their interactions with regard to the order of their sequences and to observe the connection between chronic sleep disorders and organ dysfunctions from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine.


As a result of the observations, disorders of the kidneys (in 95 percent of the patients), the liver (in 58 percent), the spleen (in 42 percent) and the heart (in 23 percent) were found. In combination, weakening was observed in kidney and liver (27 percent), kidney and spleen (20 percent), kidney and heart (ten percent); kidney, spleen and liver (18 percent), kidney, liver and heart (ten percent) and kidney, spleen and heart (two percent).


These results reveal that chronic sleep disorders and infections are very commonly associated with multiple organ dysfunction. The study suggests that antimicrobial therapy in combination with traditional Chinese medicine interventions can treat chronic sleep disorders. Early treatment of spleen-kidney yin weakness could also prevent the accumulation of organ dysfunction and thus prevent sleep disorders.