Acupuncture Treatment For Insomnia Clinical Studies

The paper consists two parts: the summaries of documents and a clinical observation.There are two summaries of documents. The first reviews the methods which were used in evaluating the effect of clinical treatment in recent five years and looks into the future in the other objective methods of evaluating sleep. The second reviews the current research situation in the medicine of sleep, including the diagnosis and treatment in west medicine and the development of evaluation of the extent of insomnia in recent years.The clinical part is about to investigate the effect on treating the insomnia patient sleeping quality in acupuncture. Methods: 60 insomnia patients conforming to the diagnostic criteria were randomly divided into two groups. We chose Baihui,Sishencong,Shenting,Anmian,Shenmen for the main point of acupuncture treatment group, We choose Estazolam as the contra-position group . We use the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the micro-movement sensitive mattress sleep monitoring system to evaluate and analyze the patients before and after the treatment and use the SPSS software to do the statistical analysis. Conclusion: acupuncture is effective in treating insomnia and it is better than Estazolam in improving the patients'deep sleep quality and sleep efficiency and daytime dysfunction.So we can conclude that acupuncture is an effective, safety, long-term and convenient methodology for insomnia.