The Ancient Literature Research Of Acupuncture Treatment Of Insomnia

Objective: This subject which bases on Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicine collects acupuncture treatments of ancient books about insomnia syndrome prescription in order to summarize the ancient physicians’ acupuncture treatments of insomnia syndrome for clinical treatments to find regular patterns and provide the theory basis for insomnia syndrome and clinical guidance.Method: Computer researches of Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Statistical analysis with the Microsoft Access database.Results: Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicine contains 33 ancient medical works about how acupuncture therapies’ prescriptions cure insomnia. The Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing written in Jin Dynasty unprecedentedly recorded the acupuncture prescriptions for curing insomia. And in Ming Dynasty the amount of records reached the peak. Those prescriptions account for 390 and 255 of the prescriptions certainly mentioned the methods. To solve insomia, acupuncture therapy maximumly refers to 78 acupoints, Those acupoints are mentioned in the book for 493 times. which show up most frequently are Taiyuan(LU8), Zhangmen(LR13), Yinlingquan(SP9), Yinbai(SP1), Qimen(LR14), Zhongfu(LU1), Yingchuang(ST16), Yinjiao(CV7), Zhejin(GB23), Fengmen(BL12), Tianfu(LU3), Cuanzhu(BL2). In the ancient medical works, insomnia syndrome’s acupuncture treatments judged by the characteristics of the acupuncture points mainly find treatments by a single acupuncturing point. Judging by the acupuncture points’ distributions, fours department acupuncture points take the vital position.Judging by acupuncture points attributable to the meridians, the meridians with the bladder sufficient sun and the Meridian of Yangming Foot most see. Judging by acupuncture points whether belong to particularly specific acupuncture points, particularly specific acupoints primarily.Judging by the classification of specific points, five Transport points and crossing points are mostly easy to see. Among the five Transport points, the usages of Well points and Acupuncture points are the most frequent.Conclusion: Insomnia often occur simultaneously, or secondary to other diseases and other symptoms, its clinical treatment should be carefully identified. The clinical symptoms of insomnia should be synthetically analyzed when doctors treat insomnia syndrome by acupuncture. The use of eight classes dialectic, dialectical organs, meridians theory, to identify lesions after selecting the appropriate organs and meridians and acupoints.