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Clinical Observation of Facial Acupuncture for Insomnia

NCT07381647 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 82

Last updated 2026-02-02

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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

Interventions

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Pei Yuan

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
30 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-01-20
Primary Completion
2026-05-20
Completion
2026-06-20

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