Acupuncture and Insomnia

Insomnia is a sleep disorder, whether it is hard to get asleep, difficulty to stay asleep, or wake up too early and not being able to get back to sleep again. People with insomnia usually will have low energy level. Insomnia can affect your mood, your overall health, work performance, and also quality of life. The amount of sleeping time needed vary from person to person, but generally adult people need seven to eight hours of sleep a night. Insomnia can be short term (acute) or long term (chronic). [note]Insomnia-Overview,By Mayo Clinic Staff, http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/insomnia/home/ovc-20256955[/note]  

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SYMPTOMS

CAUSES

TREATMENTS

 

SYMPTOMS

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The symptoms of insomnia are all related with sleeping. People with insomnia will have symptom like trouble to fall asleep, frequently wake up during sleep time, and hard to get sleep again after wake up. [note]Insomnia Symptoms, http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/insomnia-symptoms[/note]  

CAUSES

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The symptoms of insomnia sometimes can be the same as the symptoms of many other mental health or medical conditions. Insomnia can be caused by many things, especially things that related with mind health condition. Insomnia can begin with stress and get worse if the stress become a depression. Other things that may cause insomnia including alcohol or drug consumption, and also poor sleeping environment. [note]Insomnia - Causes, http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Insomnia/Pages/Causes.aspx[/note]  

TREATMENTS

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Related Acupuncture Points : HT7 KD6 LV3 PC6 SP4 SP6 Acupuncture Treatment For Insomnia Acupuncture treatment is believed to be an effective treatment of insomnia disorder. With this treatment, the patient of insomnia will experience an improve total sleep duration. Basically, the treatment given will improve the balance of yin and yang inside patient’s body. This improved balanced of yin and yang will reinforece health and eliminate the pathogenic, which in turn will improve sleep duration. The type of acupuncture treatment given could be a body acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, and electro acupuncture. The acupoints used in this treatment are vary according to the each patient’s condition. It could target only 2 acupoints or even 20 acupoints. The duration of treatment also vary. It ranged from 2 days to 10 weeks. [note]Acupuncture for Treatment of Insomnia: A Systematic Review - NCBI, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3156618/[/note]  

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