Clinical Research Of Noontime-acupuncture On Primary Insomnia

Objective:To observe and compare the differences of curative effect between noontime-acupuncture (the period of the day from11a. m. to1p. m.)and acupuncture at other time for treatment of primary insomnia. to search the clinical value of curing internal medicine diseases by choose time acupuncture.to provide wider applied range in order to popularize the treatment by choose time acupuncture, To study that if there is a best time for curing primary insomnia by acupuncture, and provide foundation for clinical treatment.Methods:the randomized clinical trials, controlled, single-blind study was adopted. the patients of primary insomnia,whose symptom meet a criterion according to 《Chinese Classifieation and Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disorders Version3(CCMD-3)》、《The ministry of health Chinese traditional medicine new drug clinical research guiding principles》, are divided into noontime-acupuncture group and control group. A total of35cases in each group and everyone with20times acupuncture. There is one time everyday for ten days, and then one time day after day for20days. The total days for treatment is30days. After the treatment and in the third mouth, the author will interview each patients. The patients in treatment group will accept the treatment of noontime-acupuncture, and ones in contorl group will accept the treatment at other times. when the treatment is finished and after a mouth, the auther will access the sleeping condition, and obtian the related scores. All the related data will be analyzed by the software SPSS17.0.Results:there are70subjects are chosen according to the plan of clinical experiment and the requirement of research programme;there are35 subjects in treatment group by noontime-acupuncture, and the other35subjects in control group.64subjects are treated completely according to experimental plan;2in treatment group and4in control group are dropped out of the study.After the treatment, the author interviews33subjects of treatment group and31subjects of control group after three mouths. The curative ratio of the group by noontime-acupuncture is48.48%, and the other group is32.26%. There was no statistically significant difference.Conclusion:there both are apparent curative effect (P<0.05) in noontime-acupuncture group and common acupuncture group for primary insomnia, and the overall effect of noon acupuncture is better than that of common group. The treatment by noontime-acupuncture has more advantages than that of common acupuncture at the aspects of sleep rate. However, there has no statistically significant difference. In noontime-acupuncture group, according to the result of comparing the two methods of acupuncture, we found that treating with the method can improve the quality of sleep, reduce the sleep-producing drugs, reduce the time to fall asleep.