| Insomnia is a very common disease which has a great negative impact on the health and quality of life of patients[1-2]. Most of the clinical manifestations include difficulty falling asleep, profuse dreaming, festless sleep and difficulty falling asleep after awakening[3]. At present, western medicines are mostly adopted to treat insomnia in modern medicine, mainly including chloral hydrate, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, sedatives and other hypnotic drugs[3]. Although they are effective, and the hypnotic effect is remarkable, some side effects may generate due to long-term use, such as residual effects of drugs, cognitive impairment and potential addiction, etc[5]. While Chinese herb medicines have attracted the attention of people all over the world because of the little side effect[6-7]. Acupuncture therapy is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine. It is called “green therapy” because of its safety, costeffectiveness and without side effect[8]. It has been proved that acupuncture therapy has a good curative effect for insomnia[8-10]. Excitement transfer therapy is a kind of special acupuncture therapy with the manipulations of cluster needling at the acupoints of wrist and ankle in the manner of penetration needling, and sliding-cupping at governor vessel and bladder meridian on the back. In this study, 32 insomnia patients from Guoyitang, affiliated Zhongshan Hospital Yanwu Branch of Xiamen University were treated by adopting excitement transfer therapy from May to October, 2016, and the curative effect was observed. |
