26. Tác dụng của phương pháp cấy chỉ trong điều trị mất ngủ không thực tổn

Abstract

Insomnia involves problems with the timing, quality, cycles of sleep and the sleep – wake disturbances. This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of the catgut-embedding method with “Nei Guan”, “Shen Men”, “San Yin Jiao”, “Tai Xi” acupoints in the treatment of insomnia according to the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) through investigating the treatment effectiveness in patients of two types: “Xin Pi Xu” and “Xin Shen Bu Jiao” types. The study design was open-trial clinical study, comparing the figures between before and after the treatment. After 30 days of treatment, the duration of sleep increased from 2.68 ± 0.67 (hours) to 6.10 ± 0.99 (hours); sleep latency time decreased from 70.17 ± 23.38 (minutes) to 29.25 ± 9.20 (minutes) and total PSQI score decreased from 16.17 ± 1.77 (points) to 5.02 ± 2.98 (points) (p < 0.01). The proportion of patients without sleep disorders at the end of the study was 66.7%. Both types had similar improvement in sleeping (p > 0.05). The study of the catgut-embedding method improved effectively the sleep duration, the sleep latency time and the total PSQI score. The results of these improvement were comparable between the two types according to traditional medicine.