Feyzabadi Zohre, Jafari Farhad, Feizabadi Parvin Sadat, Ashayeri Hassan, Esfahani Mohammad Mahdi, Badiee Aval Shapour
Iranian Traditional Medicine Department, Medicine Faculty, Shahed University, Tehran, IR Iran.
Health and Social Medicine Department, Medicine Faculty, Shahed University, Tehran, IR Iran.
Iran Red Crescent Med J. 2014 Mar;16(3):e15981. doi: 10.5812/ircmj.15981. Epub 2014 Mar 5.
Insomnia is one of the most prevalent sleep disorders characterized by sleep difficulty that impairs daily functioning and reduces quality of life. The burden of medical, psychiatric, interpersonal, and societal consequences of insomnia expresses the importance of diagnosing and treatment of insomnia. The aim of study was to investigate causes of insomnia from the viewpoint of Iranian traditional medicine.
In this review study, we searched insomnia in a few of the most famous ancient textbooks of Iranian traditional medicine from different centuries. This books includeThe Canon of Medicine by Avicenna (the first version of Beirut), Zakhire Kharazmshahi by Jurjani (the scanned version of Bonyade Farhang-e Iran), Malfaregh by Razes (the first version of Iran University of Medical Sciences), and Aqili's cure by Aqili (the first version of Iran University of Medical Sciences).
This study found that in Iranian traditional medicine manuscripts, insomnia was called sahar and even though many factors induce insomnia, most of them act through causing brain dystemperament.
The brain dystemperament is considered one of the main causes of insomnia and insomnia can be well managed with an organized line of treatment, by correcting the brain dystemperament through elimination of causes. This study helps to find new solutions to treat insomnia.
失眠是最常见的睡眠障碍之一，其特征为睡眠困难，会损害日常功能并降低生活质量。失眠在医学、精神、人际和社会方面造成的后果，凸显了诊断和治疗失眠的重要性。本研究的目的是从伊朗传统医学的角度调查失眠的成因。
在这项综述研究中，我们在几个不同世纪最著名的伊朗传统医学古籍中搜索了失眠相关内容。这些书籍包括阿维森纳的《医典》（贝鲁特第一版）、朱尔贾尼的《哈拉兹姆沙希宝藏》（伊朗文化遗产组织的扫描版）、拉齐斯的《玛尔法雷格》（伊朗医科大学第一版）以及阿基利的《阿基利疗法》（伊朗医科大学第一版）。
本研究发现，在伊朗传统医学手稿中，失眠被称为“sahar”，尽管引发失眠的因素众多，但大多数因素是通过导致脑气质失调而起作用的。
脑气质失调被认为是失眠的主要原因之一，通过消除病因纠正脑气质失调，采用有条理的治疗方法可以很好地控制失眠。本研究有助于找到治疗失眠的新方法。
