@article{HOI_2021, title={TRADITIONAL THERAPY AND WESTERN MEDICINE FOR TREATING INSOMNIA}, volume={13}, url={https://journals.innovareacademics.in/index.php/ijap/article/view/40958}, DOI={10.22159/ijap.2021.v13s1.Y2006}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Objective</strong>: The herbs that have been used in Vietnam since ancient times for many different uses but not everyone recognize its great value. The paper<br>aims to discover the preferred medicinal plants and the reasons why patients choose them. Although Western medicines play an important role in<br>treatment and bring immediate effect, however, to treat insomnia in the long term, natural herbs account for significant importance. The paper was<br>conducted in early 2019 in different regions in South Vietnam to once again determine the role of medicinal plants use.<br><strong>Methods</strong>: This paper is completed with the support of 100 respondents who are from some places of Ho Chi Minh city and are suffering from insomnia.<br>With the form of direct interviews, some questions are designed to examine patients’ opinions about the strategies that can to treat insomnia.<br><strong>Results</strong>: The results showed that herbal treatment still plays a rather important role even though people tend to choose Western medications in busy<br>days because this medications are less time consuming. The paper also mentions that the importance of herbs in the treatment of insomnia needs<br>more attention.<br><strong>Conclusion</strong>: In the current medical methods, traditional methods are being trusted and used by many people because this therapy brings many health<br>benefits, helps patients treat their illnesses well as well as improve their health much better. Traditional remedies which are all derived from natural<br>herbs are very good for health.</p>}, number={1}, journal={International Journal of Applied Pharmaceutics}, author={HOI, HUYNH TAN}, year={2021}, month={Jan.}, pages={79–86} }