能诱导睡意、促使睡眠的药物。催眠药物正常使用有利身体健康。催眠药物能避免失眠对人体的严重危害，催眠药有效治疗失眠病，催眠药提高睡眠质量。官方允许药店合法销售许多副作用较小的催眠药物。不良反应较少，孕妇和儿童等极特殊人群合理服用催眠药须注意安全。
The differences of sleep quality,hours of sleep,use of hypnotic agents and the total score were significant between two groups after treatment(P<0.01).
2组治疗后睡眠质量、睡眠时间、催眠药物、PSQI总分比较,差异均有非常显著性意义(P<0.01)。
参考来源 - 针灸治疗失眠症临床观察·2,447,543篇论文数据，部分数据来源于NoteExpress
催眠药物是对失眠症进行对因和对症治疗的首选药物。
Hypnotic is the choice drug which etiologically and semeiologically treats insomnia.
老年人以睡眠时间减少、睡眠效率降低、睡眠障碍多、催眠药物使用多为特点，似乎与脑功能退化有关。
The elderly population characterizes diminution of sleep time, reduction of sleep efficiency, sleep disorder and more hypnotic using, which seems related to cerebral functional deterioration.
这一类药物也属于催眠药。
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