NCT07381647

Clinical Observation of Facial Acupuncture for Insomnia

Clinical Observation of Facial Acupuncture for Insomnia Based on Zangfu Meridian Theory

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 82 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Pei Yuan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Insomnia is one of the most common mental disorders and has shown an upward trend in recent years. The commonly used western medicine treatment methods are easy produce drug-related adverse reactions, and there are problems such as the decline of efficacy and the production of drug dependence after long-term medication. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of insomnia on syndrome differentiation. In this study, taking the common heart and spleen deficiency syndrome and liver depression transforming into fire syndrome as examples, based on the theory of zangfu andingluo, we explored the selection of acupoints for acupuncture treatment of insomnia and conducted clinical efficacy observation. Combined with the analysis of the changes of Pittsburgh Quality Index, Hamilton Anxiety Scale, Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome Efficacy Rating, Infrared Thermal Image Acquisition, Forehead Adhesive Sleep Recorder and other data, the acupuncture treatment of insomnia patients was expounded.

Conditions

• Insomnia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	facial acupuncture	Acupuncture at specific points, each time leaving the needle for 30 minutes, twice a week, for four weeks.
PROCEDURE	facial scraping	Scrape the specific areas of the face, each time for 15-20 minutes, twice a week, with an interval of at least 2, for 4 weeks continuously, a total of 8 times.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-01-20
• Primary completion: 2026-05-20
• Completion: 2026-06-20
• First posted: 2026-02-02
• Last updated: 2026-02-02