| Insomnia, namely sleeplessness in TCM, with the increase of tremendous stress of society and the speeding pace of life, there appears a large number of insomnia patients. Faced with this environment, the insomnia patients has shown a younger trend. Insomnia not only impact a person's daily life, but also reduced efficiency of social work, and has become a widespread concern in many countries public health problem. As the western medicine has side effect, such as potential habituate and perennial dependence, researchers have been exploring the way of TCM treatment for insomnia. So, the research adapts the Acupuncture method to treat with insomnia.ObjectiveThis study adapted randomly compared researching method. With the commonly acupuncture therapy for the control group, we observed the effect of electro acupuncture at the "sihua" points combined with auricular point press therapy for the liver fire harassing the heart type of insomnia patients. To study the mechanism of this method and Provide theoretical basis for its clinical application.MethodsIn this study, we selected the insomnia patients who accepted treatment in Taiwan qi de traditional medicine clinic, during the period of2010/10to2012/1. Choose64examples of insomnia patients, randomly divided the cases into a treatment group and a comparison group.32cases in treated group with electro acupuncture at the "sihua" points (BL19BL17)combined with auricular point press therapy; and the32cases in control group treated with commonly acupuncture method (with the points of BL62,KI6,HT7,EX-HN3,EX-HN1,Amnion, GB43).A4weeks course of treatment, and then recorded the PSQI scores and SDRS scores. We assessed the difference of the treatment effect between the two groups by SPSS software statistics.ResultsThis study designed a randomized, controlled trial. There were64eligible subjects. And each group32cases. Two group of patients in sex, age and so on basic situation aspect comparison, difference non-statistics significance, P>0.05.1After the treatment, the PSQI score of the both groups were decreased. the treatment group was, and the control group was, so there's remarkable significance between two groups (P<0.05),therefore the treatment group was more effective than the control group in the sleep quality improvements.2After treatment of4weeks, in the treatment group, the scores of all items in PSQI scale were reduced, and there was a significant difference before and after treatment. However In the control group, there was a difference of the items that contain the time taken to fall asleep, the disorders of sleep, the condition of dose taking before and after treatment (P<0.05), compared with the five items of sleep quality, the time taken to fall asleep, the disorders of sleep, the condition of dose taking, the dysfunction during the day, the difference was significance between two groups (P<0.05). but the items of our sleep and sleep affiance without statistical significance (P>0.05)3After the treatment, the SDRS score of the both groups were decreased. the treatment group was, and the control group was, so there's remarkable significance between two groups (P<0.05), therefore the treatment group was more effective than the control group in the sleep quality improvements.4the clinical effect of those two groups were compared, in treatment group, the effective rate was90.63%, while78.12%of control group, the curative effect of the treatment group was better than the control group (P<0.05)ConclusionIn the PSQI scale of the study, all of the seven items scores decreased, and compared with the five items of sleep quality, the time taken to fall asleep, the disorders of sleep, the condition of dose taking, the dysfunction during the day, the difference was significance between two groups (P<0.05) Both PSQI total scores and SDRS scores were reduced in two groups, and the comparison proved the curative effect in the treatment group was better than the control group. The conclusion shows that this therapy has a good curative effect and a very good application foreground.
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