A good night’s sleep is indispensable for maintaining good health and is an important part of the body’s recovery, integration and consolidation, second only to breathing and heartbeat. Insomnia can manifest itself as difficulty falling asleep or maintaining sleep, with easy waking in the middle of the night, or in people with both of these conditions. It is the most common sleep disorder that affects daytime life, learning or work and impairs social functioning due to poor sleep quality and failure to meet normal physiological needs. Usually, patients have difficulty falling asleep, waking up easily, waking up early and waking up again after difficulty in falling asleep, and may be accompanied by varying degrees of discomfort, irritability, nervousness, restlessness or depression, and in severe cases, autonomic symptoms such as increased heart rate, increased body temperature and peripheral vasoconstriction. According to Chinese medicine, normal sleep depends on the body’s “yin and yang secret”, the internal organs in harmony, and sufficient qi and blood. The heart is stable, the heart and blood can be quiet, the Wei Yang can enter the Yin, in order to sleep. If the heart and spleen are deficient due to excessive thinking or labor, the source of biochemistry is insufficient; or if the body’s yin is damaged due to insufficient endowment or prolonged illness, yin deficiency and fire can occur, which can lead to insomnia. Other pathogenic mechanisms include: deficiency of heart and gallbladder qi, internal growth of phlegm and turbidity; disorderly diet, stagnation of food and heat, food heat disturbing the heart and mind; or liver fire disturbing the mind, all of which can lead to restlessness of the heart and mind, lack of calmness of the heart and blood, imbalance of yin and yang, and loss of harmony between Ying and Wei. The treatment of insomnia is based on the principle of tonifying the deficient and dipping the actual, and adjusting yin and yang, with the help of tranquilizing products. From Zhang Zhongjing’s “Jin Kui Yao” in the Han Dynasty, Sun Simiao’s “Prepared Urgent Thousand Gold Essential Formula” in the Tang Dynasty to the “Record of Evidence” in the Qing Dynasty, many scripture and prescription books have recorded effective prescriptions for the treatment of insomnia, which have been used to this day, such as Guei Spleen Tang, Huang Lian Agaricus Tang, Zhu Sha An Shen Wan, An Shen Ding Zhi Wan, Sour Jujube Tang, Warm Gall Bladder Tang, Gentian Diarrhea Liver Tang and so on. In addition to drug treatment, self-regulation is also important. In life, patients should relax, arrange sleep time reasonably, try not to drink alcohol, do not drink tea or caffeinated beverages in the afternoon and evening, and often participate in physical exercise. More serious insomnia patients can sleep behavior therapy: when there is sleepy party to go to bed; not in bed for things unrelated to sleep, such as reading, watching TV; minimize sleep during the day, such as lunch break; 2 hours before going to bed without strenuous exercise; 15-20 minutes after going to bed can not sleep to another room to do other things, have sleepy and then return to the bedroom to sleep; regardless of how long the night sleep time. Get up regularly in the morning. Some physical therapy, such as magnetic therapy, ultrasound therapy, music therapy, massage, acupuncture, etc. can also be carried out.