How does acupuncture treat Insomnia?
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine theory, a human body is considered as a mini nature. When the sun descends, the night is coming; meanwhile the Qi (vital energy ) and blood slip into the interior and human fall into sleep. This is a wellbalanced status for person. Now ,you can get a conclusion that if Qi and blood can not enter into the body in the evening because of any reasons, you will get into insomnia. There are kinds of reasons that cause vital energy and blood can not go into the inside, such as disharmony between the heart and kidney, deficiency of Qi and blood of the heart and spleen, lack of yin of liver and eat too much or starve. Person can not sleep peacefully, manifesting be difficulty in going into sleep, easy to wake after sleep and not easy to sleep again and so on. It is just a Traditional Chinese Medicine theory-“yang can not enter into yin”. Moreover, it is should be realized that Qi and blood go into the interior in the night in order to exert the function