The Clinical Research Of Using Accupuncture "An Mian Wu Xue" To Cure Simple Insomnia

Insomnia is a popular clinical disease,it is called “Bu Mei” in TraditionalChinese Medicine.The Simple Insomnia refers to a kind of disease that thesleep happening and mainting be in trouble,while the sleep quality cannotsatisfied body’s physiology requirment,and it has inluence on the daily life andhealth condition.Whthin our tutor’s help,we did a clinical research on ourpatients,conclute the clinical experiences,to give a convenient and efficentmethod to cure the simple Insomnia.Purpose:Nowadays,the life style is getting faster and faster,while theworking pressure is also on a high level,more and more people are in thetrouble with INSOMNIA.It shows many aspects:hard to sleep,shallowsleeping,waking up frequntly,dreams a lot,wake up too early,etc.With thesleeping quality getting down rapidly,it affects the daily life and working, bein Insomnia too long time also causes healthy problem.In mordernmedicine,we most use sedative,it has certainly effects,but easily to bedependent on,also has strong side effects. This research relys on theobservation by using accunctures”AN MIAN WU XUE”to cureInsomnia,aimed to find a convenient,efficient,safe and echonomic TraditionalChinese Medicine method.Method:Collected80clinical obeservation patients,all are the simpleInsomnia patients from accupuncture branch outpatient department of HebeiTraditional Chinese Medicine hospital during Jun.2012to Jun.2013,satisfiedthe diagnosing standard and in-group standard.Made the80obeservationpatients into treatment group and compare group by random,each group with40patients.All patients were given psychological adjustment,kepping a goodmood,dislodged the factors may induce or intensify the disease condition.Thetreatment group was given accupuncture treatment,chose Feng Chi point,San Yin Jiao point,Shen Men point,Xi Men point and Shen An point both in twosides.called”An Mian Wu Xue”,Patients lay on their back,the points area wasdisinfectioned by75%alcohol,doctor using0.25mm diameter needle,brand ofHua Tuo,took accupuncture on these points,quick puncture in,Shen Men point0.3-0.5cun,Feng Chi point0.5-0.8cun,San Yin Jiao point1-1.5cun,Xi Menpoint0.5-1.0cun,Shen An point0.5-1.0cun,no enhancing or decreasing,stay30mins after got feeling,1time per day,10times to be a period,then conclutedall the effects after3periods.The compare group was given “EstazolamTablets”,1-2tablets before sleep at night,1time per day,10times to be a period,concluted all the effects after3periods.Result:All patients conclude their result after3periods:patients intreatment group have8obviously effective,28effective,4none effective,totaleffective rate90.0%;compare group:8obviously effective,27effecive,5noneeffective,total effective rate87.5%. Comparing with the two groups’ totaleffective rate,P>0.05,the PSQI score of treatment group is10.03±3.14,compare group is10.55±3.20,compare with the score before andafter,P<0.05,which showed us these two treatment methods both canameliorate the patients’ sleep in a certain degree,improve sleep quality,while inthe Traditional Chinese Medicine syndrome score,the treatment group is20.03±1.24, had more improve,the compare group is25.55±3.13, with lessimprove. This shows the accupuncture has better Traditional ChineseMedicine effects on simple Insomnia than using “Estazolam Tablets”.Conclusion:By using accupuncture “AN MIAN WU XUE” and“Estazolam Tablets”to cure simple Insomnia,both of them can improve thepatients’ sleep quality,sleep time,sleep efficient,etc.but accupuncture “ANMIAN WU XUE” has more adventage than using “Estazolam Tablets”,itsefficacy stay longer,with no liver and kidney harm,easy to accept,and also canimprove the Traditional Chinese Medicine score,more convenient andefficient,has strong characteristic of TCM,quiet efficient in clinical work.