The Clinical Research Of Acupuncture Combined With Chinese Herbalmedicine Therapy Of Insomnia

Insomnia in another word can be called sleeping disorder or sleeping barrier. In clinical practice it is one of the common syndromes which is manifested as dificulty to fall asleep or easy to wake up and impossible to fall asleep again. In worse case the patient is unable to fall asleep the whole night. As side symptoms it can be accompanied by headache, dizziness, tachicardia, palpitations, poor memory,ejaculation during steeping in men, poor appetite, fatigue, etc. Western medicine takes Insomnia as a symptom of neurasthenia, which mainly attacks middle age and using brain work people, damage the study,work and life seriously.Recently,one of the important devise for treating Insomnia in current clinic is using the hypnotic medicines, however long time taking will have a very serious toxic side effect for the patients' health. The new medicines appear continuously,but with its side effect, strong addiction and much taboo, and restricts the clinical application seriously. As a result, a reasonal and effective treatment for this disease becomes a problem which is to be solved urgently in our daily clinical work.In clinical practice we discover that applying acupuncture-medicine treatment inaccordance with TCM theory for Insomnia has an excellent clinical result. At the same time it can improve the situation of the patients who are addicted to hypnotic medicines.This topic to study the efficiency of the acupuncture- medicine method in the treatment of insomnia. Sixty patients with insomnia were randomly divided into curing group and comparing group , each group had thirty cases. The curing group was theated with acupuncture-medicine, the comparing group was theated with Zopidem. The treatment efficiency was judged by PSQI scale, After four course treatment, including improvement of symptom and the changes of PSQI's mark. The result shows :the treated group had got a better effect than the contrast one, the comparison of the dividing rate was P<0.05. show the acupuncture-medicine group has stronger effect than the Western medicine group; Seeing from the side effect, the comparison of the treated group is P>0.05,another group is P<0 .01. From the above result, we can see the treatment of acupuncture-medicine not only has better curative effect, it can reduce the side effect of the hypnotic medicines,is good for the body symptom,decreases the quantity of hypnotic medicines,consequently raises the sufferer's living quality thus, so as to provide a valid treatment method and project for treating insomnia. It can be the first method to cure insomnia and have vast prospect and expandable value.