Acupuncture Treatment For Insomnia – Acupuncture is a Natural Remedy for Insomnia or Sleeplessness or Sleep Disorder, Acupuncture Gives Faster Recovery without any Medications.

“Peace of mind is an essential preliminary to sleep” – William McDougall.

Few common conditions cause more misery and discomfort to the patients than insomnia. The whole mental and physical vigour is impaired, tolerance is reduced, reaction to situations becomes abnormal and the capacity for work is decreased.

Insomnia is a sleep disorder also known as Wakefulness or Dyssomnia which is an inability to sleep or to sleep for long enough to get a proper night’s rest. The main effect of insomnia is that you feel constantly tired, irritable, and may have poor coordination and concentration. Sleep is necessary to repair the body and provide physical and mental rest.

In most instances insomnia is due to pain or anxiety. Various painful situations like back ache, abdominal pain, restless leg syndrome and acroparesthesia (tingling, prickling, burning, or numb feeling in the hands or feet – which can be very painful) are known to disturb sleep. The psychiatric illness which causes insomnia include anxiety necrosis, depression, maniac depressive psychosis and hypochondriasis. Insomnia may occur either in the form of a difficulty in falling asleep and tendency to sleep late or an early morning walking inability to return to sleep.

It can be a symptom of some underlying condition. The symptoms include:

Difficulty falling deep sleep at night

Waking up during the night and being unable to return to sleep

Waking up earlier than desired

Daytime fatigue or sleepiness

Irritability, Depression, or anxiety

Poor focus & concentration

Poor focus & concentration

Difficulty in socializing

Worrying about sleeping

Gastrointestinal symptoms

Insomnia usually caused due to anxiety, stress or trauma.

Few short-term causes could be due to disruptions in circadian rhythm- biological clock of sleep-wake cycle of the human body, which could be because of:

Work shifts – If there is regular change in work timings

Jet lag – travelling to different time zones might disturb our sleep pattern for one or few days

Moving and sleeping at high altitudes

Environmental noise

If untreated, the condition leads to

Poor performance in the job or at school.

Slowed reaction time while driving and a higher risk of accidents.

Mental health disorders, such as depression, anxiety disorder or substance abuse.

Increased risk and severity of long-term diseases or conditions, such as high blood pressure and heart disease.