The Clinical Researches Of Warm Needle Moxibustion On The Back-shu Points For Insomnia

BackgroundInsomnia,as an independent disease,is also a concomitant symptom of other diseases.In 2002,a questionnaire survey showed that 45.4%of Chinese had different levels of sleeplessness(A IS score?4)in the past 30 days,and 10%of the population had insomnia(DSM-IV standard).Chronic insomnia could affect daily life and work of the patients and even cause accidents.warm needle moxibustion conducts the heat of the burning moxa through the needle body.Without direct contact with the skin,warm needle moxibustion is easily accepted by patients because it rarely leaves scars.warm needle moxibustion is widely used on diseases of internal medicine,surgery,orthopedics,dermatology,ophthalmology,gynecology.warm needle moxibustion also has unique advantage on integral regulation of metabolism for its dual-direction regulation as tonification and purgation,and it is especially effective for chronic intractable diseases.Therefore,this study choose warm needle moxibustion as intervention method to investigate its clinical efficacy to patients with insomnia.ObjectiveTo objectively observe and evaluate efficacy of Acupuncture on insomnia,and to investigate the clinical efficacy of warm needle moxibustion to Back-shu points for Insomnia due to Heart-Spleen Deficiency,so as to find a simple and effective therapeutic method for insomnia.Methods60 patients were selected according to the standard of research and numbered as sequential order of the selection.Random number table was used to renumber the patients,and the former 30 cases were arranged to the warm needle moxibustion group while the last 30 cases were arranged to the "gui pi wan" group.The changes of patients' condition were evaluated 1 month before and after the treatment to analyse differences between 2 therapeutic methods.Clinical resultTo two groups of patients with the gender,age,course of distribution of basic conditions were analyzed respectively,it is concluded that there were no statistical significance(P?0.05),baseline levels of two groups of the same,research data comparable.Both the Pittsburgh sleep quality index and the assens sleep scale were statistically significant(P?0 05)before the two groups were treated.Compared with control group,by means of two groups before and after treatment to sleep time,sleep time,sleep efficiency difference comparison,P?0.05,acupuncture for insomnia,cases of shenshu point back two deficiency syndrome has more significant effect.The total effectiveness of the treatment group was 100%,and the control group was effective at 83.3 percent.From the perspective of the change of Pittsburgh sleep quality index scale,the two groups before and after treatment difference statistically significant(P<0.05),that is,from the sleep quality,the effect of treatment group than the control group,and from the perspective of the change of Athens sleep scale,no statistical difference in the two groups before and after treatment difference(P?0.05),that is,from daytime function,no significant differences between the two groups.ConclusionsWarm needle moxibustion to Back-shu points and "gui pi wan" treatment of heart and spleen deficiency deficiency,have obvious effect,the patient's individual symptoms,including sleep time,daytime function,the basic can be significantly improved,Pittsburgh sleep quality Index has a significant decline,and the total score from the point of view,the temperature of Warm needle moxibustion to Back-shu points is better than oral administration of"gui pi wan".