Acupuncture and Insomnia

Oriental medicine often finds a heart disharmony at the source of insomnia. Acupuncture is accompanied by sleep hygiene to calm the spirit.

The Chinese have used acupuncture for insomnia for millennia. Learn more about this technique, including some acupressure points you can try on yourself.

If you decide to see a Chinese practitioner for your insomnia, this page will tell you what to expect at your first acupuncture appointment.

In the Chinese system there are several possible causes of insomnia and acupuncture can treat all of them. Find out how that's possible with this page.

This technical page explains why physicians should consider including acupuncture in their insomnia treatments, though more research should be done.

Chinese practitioners frequently manage insomnia with acupuncture. Yet sometimes it just takes common sense to get to sleep.

This page offers great tips for approaching insomnia as the Chinese do. Acupuncture will help, but try these other suggestions as well.

Herbs and acupuncture for insomnia give relief to patients with various root causes in these studies. Maybe it can help you find relief as well.

Chinese medicine looks beyond symptoms to the whole person. This results in a safer and more individual approach to insomnia with acupuncture.

This page explains how your personal pattern of insomnia and acupuncture come together to create a unique treatment regimen for you.

This page can give you potential causes of your insomnia. Acupuncture requires an expert, but you can try patent formulas fairly safely on your own.

If you want to try Chinese medicine and acupuncture for insomnia, you can start with the formula that best addresses your particular symptoms.

This study says that ear acupuncture for insomnia does seem effective, although more controlled clinical trials should be done to confirm these results.

Shui De An, the formula shown here, is an ancient Chinese remedy for anxiety-related insomnia. If acupuncture makes you nervous, give this a try.