In this chapter, the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for the treatment of insomnia and other sleep-related conditions is explored. The language of TCM often appears impenetrable to Western researchers, but TCM represents a centuries-old complete, viable, and integrated medical system. The author provides a review of the language of TCM that allows the reader to come to an understanding of the mechanisms for why insomnia occurs, why acupuncture is used in its treatment, and how insomnia is diagnosed in terms of pattern identification using signs and symptoms for differential diagnosis. In addition, sample treatment protocols for both acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine are presented.
Computer-assisted lip diagnosis on traditional Chinese medicine using multi-class support vector machines