Taking sleeping pills helps to treat insomnia, but the treatment of insomnia cannot rely only on taking sleeping pills. Insomnia is a clinical manifestation caused by a variety of complex factors, mainly manifested as difficulty falling asleep, or waking up easily at night and falling asleep again or waking up early, short sleep time, etc. The causative factors generally include physiological, psychological, environmental and other changes, as well as drugs, neuropsychiatric and somatic disorders. Common causes include family genetic factors, stress and life events, lifestyle problems, self-characteristic personality, previous illnesses, taking certain special drugs, and advanced age of women. The treatment of insomnia includes psychotherapy, medication, physiotherapy, Chinese medicine and comprehensive treatment. First of all, we should prevent and correct bad sleep behaviors and concepts, and deal with the triggering factors of insomnia, clarify the cause and treat the cause, and treat symptomatically when the cause is unknown. Generally speaking, sleeping drugs include benzodiazepines (Valium, midazolam, lorazepam, etc.) and non-benzodiazepine sedatives (zolpidem, zopiclone, zaleplon, etc.). Its mechanism of action is to inhibit the central nervous system to achieve hypnotic effects. The action characteristics and clinical indications of different sleeping pills are different. Although all of them can play the role of hypnosis and sleeping, sleeping pills have certain side effects and there is a possibility of dependence when taken for a long time. Therefore, they cannot be used for a long time. There are many proprietary Chinese medicines for insomnia, but they are generally more targeted and need to be taken under the guidance of a physician’s diagnosis and treatment to achieve a better effect. Therefore, for patients with insomnia, taking sleeping pills will have a certain therapeutic effect. But first of all, it should be combined with behavioral therapy to treat the cause, and if necessary, go to the regular hospital to choose the correct drug standardized treatment of insomnia.