TCM Solutions - Insomnia
Treating Insomnia with Traditional Chinese Medicine
Clinical Resaerch Paper
120 Cases of Insomnia Treated with Acupuncture According to Syndrome Type (Abstract)
Feng Qionghua (The Acupuncture and Moxibustion Association of Yunnan Province)
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Vol. 20, No. 10:620
1. Patient information
Sex: male 24 cases; female 96 cases.
Age: youngest 20, oldest 68, most cases aged between 38 and 50.
Suffering course: shortest 3 month, longest 27 year.
History of medication: before starting acupuncture treatment, 72 cases took sleeping pills daily, 42
cases took sleeping pills occasionally, and 6 cases had no medications.
2. Treatment
All cases were treated with acupuncture and auricular therapy according to syndrome differentiation
(syndrome type0
2.1 Insomnia due to Liver Congestion leading to Fire
Points: HT7, PC6, LI4, LR3 and GB20.
2.2 Insomnia due to Deficiency of Heart and Spleen
Points: HT7, PC6, SP6 and 8.
2.3 Insomnia due to deficiency of Heart and Gallbladder
Points: HT7, PC6, GB34 and 43, BL15.
2.4 Insomnia due to Deficient Fire
Points: HT7, PC6, KI3, SP6 and LR3.
2.5 Insomnia due to Heat-Phlegm disturbance
Points: HT7, PC6, LI4, ST40 and SP9.
Needling above points with reinforce or reducing techniques. Retain the needles for 20-60 minutes.
Treat once every other day. 10 session is a therapeutic course. Take 3-5 days without treatment
between courses.
Auricular therapy: apply pressure with seeds or magenta balls on ear points: Shenmen. Heart, Kidney
and Occipital. Chang every 3 days. Use one ear each time alternately.
3. Result
3.1 The standard of therapeutic effect
3.1.1 Cured: sleep normally and associated symptoms disappeared.
3.1.2 Improved: sleep longer and associated symptoms less.
3.1.3 No effect: no significant changes observed.
3.2 Results after 2 courses of treatment
3.2.1 Cured: 106 cases (88.3%).
3.2.2 Improved: 14 cases (11.7%).
3.2.3 No effect: none.
4. Conclusion
4.1 Acupuncture with auricular therapy together is very effective on insomnia.
4.2 The cause of insomnia is very complicated. The critical fact of getting therapeutic effect of
acupuncture treatment on insomnia is that the practitioner carefully exam the patient to obtain all useful
information to determine the right syndrome type then according to the syndrome type selects the right
acupuncture points and techniques to apply to that individual case. And adjusts the treatment with the
new condition and the progress.
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