Clinical Data and Method

General Data : The age of the patients were between 18 to 74, courses of disease were 6 months to 20 years. Usually taking medicine for helping sleep, but such treatment is not good. The distribution of age and sex was : 18 patients were of 18 to 40 years old, 42 were above 40 years old; 24 male and 36 female.

The dominant complaints were that patients had difficulty to fall asleep or maintain sleep, or their energy could not be recovered after sleep.

The above symptoms happened at least three times a week, course of disease was on month or longer, It reached to the point that patients had obvious feeling of tiredness in daytime, and/ or the symptom of sleep disorder had been noticed by others, such as easily irritating or daytime dysfunction.

Barriers existed no only in sleep-wakening sequence but also during sleep.

Selection of Cases : the objects could be male or female, with ages between 18 to 74, meeting the diagnostic criterion.

Sleeplessness caused by stimulant drugs or neurotic stimulating materials (tea, coffee etc.).

Treatment period : 2 to 4 weeks. 0.5 to 1 hour Sleep Partner Wearing on the Shenmen acupuncture point or the Neiguan acupuncture point before going to bed, until next morning, Records of sleeping time, accompanying symptoms, after-sleep feelings and side-effects.

The degree of the above symptoms was classified by "-","+","++".

Obvious Effective : The time for falling asleep was reduced from "++" to "=" or from "+" to "-", feeling well after sleep.

Non-effective :There was no improvement of any kind.

Patient : Li, female, 43 years old, home address : Rm. 602, 12 Liuhualu. Insomnia history : 6 months. For 10 days before accepting this treatment, because of work pressure, she had experienced sleeplessnes,, startle from sleep and too many dreams. the time taken to sleep was 30 to 60 minutes. Sleeping time was 4 hours. In the morning, she felt dizzy, irritating, lack of concentration and efficiency. After wearing Sleep Partner for 2 weeks, the quality of her sleep has been evidently improved. It took 15 minutes for her to go to sleep, sleeping time prolonged to 6 hours. All other symptoms have disappeared and no discomfort has been felt.
 

Patient : Wu, male 56 years old, home address : Basement, 54 Zhanxilu. Insomnia history : 15 years. In one week before this treatment, his insomnia had been worsened, accompanying dizziness and breathing difficulty. The time taken to get to sleep was 4 hours. His symptoms were : early wake-up, easy wake-up, dreams, dizziness and irritating and deterioration of concentration. After using Mian-Er_An for 2 weeks, his sleep has been obviously improved. The time he takes to go to sleep has been reduced from 4 hours to 2 hours, while sleeping time has been prolonged from 4 hours to 6 hours. All the symptoms have disappeared. No side-effect was found. Curative effect is obvious.