Alternative & Integrative Medicine

KristianLiaury

Publications

• Research Article
  Efficacy and Safety of Sansoninto in Insomnia with Psychiatric Disorder: An Open-Label Study
  Author(s): Tsuyoshi Miyaoka, Kiminori Kawano, Motohide Furuya, Rei Wake, Sadayuki Hashioka, KristianLiaury, Erlyn Limoa, Keiko Tsuchie, Michiyo Fukushima, Tomoko Araki and Jun HoriguchiTsuyoshi Miyaoka, Kiminori Kawano, Motohide Furuya, Rei Wake, Sadayuki Hashioka, KristianLiaury, Erlyn Limoa, Keiko Tsuchie, Michiyo Fukushima, Tomoko Araki and Jun Horiguchi
  
  Background: Prior research confirms that insomnia is highly prevalent in patients with psychiatric disorders. Benzodiazepine hypnotics, causing serious disadvantages, have been widely used in psychiatry for a long time. Sansoninto (SNT), Japanese herbal medicine, is used for patients with weakness and fatigue, annoyance, insomnia, amnesia, and neurotic symptoms. Objective: The efficacy and safety of SNT was examined in adult psychiatric disorder patients with insomnia symptoms. Methods: Eighty-one adults with sleep disturbance meeting DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia: 17; monopolar depression: 20; bipolar depression: 10; adjustment disorder: 12; anxiety disorder: 5; others: 17) were treated openly for four weeks with SNT (2.5-7.5 g) at bedtime. Patients maintained sleep throughout the .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2327-5162.1000181

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