Advances in Studies on Acupuncture Treatment of Primary Insomnia
10.13460/j.issn.1005-0957.2016.07.0768
- VernacularTitle:针灸治疗原发性失眠症的研究进展
- Author:
Yan WANG
;
Ping LI
;
Qiqi WEN
;
Li LIU
;
Xiaoli CHEN
;
Xinran WEI
;
Zenghui YUE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Acupuncture therapy;
Insomnia;
Review;
Literature study
- From:
Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
2016;35(7):768-772
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Primary insomnia (PI) is now a nonorganic sleep disorder that seriously affects the quality of life of people around the world and attracts the attention of medical circles at home and abroad. Western medicine treatment has side effects such as drug dependence and withdrawal rebound and cannot obviously improve the quality of sleep and life, while acupuncture has a good therapeutic effect on PI. This article explores the latest research status of acupuncture treatment for PI. Chinese Journal Net (CNKI, VIP and Wanfang) was mainly searched to retrieve and sum up recent five years’ literature about the study of acupuncture treatment for PI. The results show that acupuncture has an advantage in producing a short-term marked therapeutic effect on PI and being of a high total efficacy rate and can effectively treat primary insomnia.
