The Development of Therapeutic Drugs for Insomnia

近些年失眠患者不断增多，严重影响患者的心理和生理健康，人们对镇静催眠药物的需求越来越大。本文阐述了临床上使用最多的苯二氮䓬类镇静催眠药的发展历程，作用机制，构效关系及其常见副作用，介绍了近几年几种新型的非苯二氮䓬类药物，同时对于我国传统药物中药在治疗失眠上的作用进行概述，综合分析发现，开发药效更强，副作用更小的新型催眠药物将成为治疗失眠的主要发展方向。 The number of patients with insomnia is continually increasing recently which has serious impact on their psychological and physiological health and in result people’s demand for sedative-hyp- notic is growing. In this paper, benzodiazepine which was widely used on clinic has been introduced, including its mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, adverse reactions and development history, what’s more, several kinds of new non-benzodiazepine and our traditional Chinese medicine’s function on treating insomnia is introduced. Comprehensive analysis found that the combination of Chinese and Western treatment methods and new hypnotic drugs will become the main development direction of the treatment of insomnia.