针灸治疗失眠的临床研究进展

Progress of Clinical Research on Acupuncture Therapy for Insomnia

摘要: 失眠又称为“不寐”、“不得眠”、“不得卧”，属于睡眠障碍性疾病，其病因繁多、机制复杂。长期失眠会严重影响到人们的身心健康和日常生活，是目前临床上较为棘手的疾病之一。西医治疗失眠通常采用镇静催眠类药物，虽有一定的疗效，但存在副作用大、易产生药物依赖性等问题，使得许多失眠患者对此有一定的顾虑，造成了失眠的人数虽多但治疗此病的患者量少的情况。中医治疗失眠已取得可观的疗效，针灸疗法作为中医外治法中的一种疗法，具有不易成瘾、经济实惠、疗效显著等特点，获得了临床医师的普遍青睐以及现代人的广泛认可，笔者通过阅读近几年的文献，对失眠的认识作以下阐述。

Abstract: Insomnia, also known as “sleepless”, or “can not sleep”, is a sleep disorder disease; its causes are various, and the mechanism is complex. Long-term insomnia will seriously affect people’s physical and mental health and daily life and is currently one of the more difficult diseases in clinical prac-tice. Western medicine usually uses sedative and hypnotic drugs to treat insomnia. Although it has a certain effect, it has some problems such as large side effects and easy drug dependence, which makes many insomnia patients have some concerns about it, resulting in a situation where alt-hough there are many insomnia patients, the number of patients who treat this disease is small. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of insomnia has achieved considerable curative effect; ac-upuncture therapy, as a kind of external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, with easy ad-diction, economic benefits, significant curative effect and other characteristics, has been widely fa-vored by clinicians and widely recognized by modern people. By reading the literature in recent years, the author expounds the understanding of insomnia as follows.