Dietary principles for insomnia patients are: light, less fat, sweet and thick taste, avoid stimulating food, such as strong tea, coffee, etc., dinner should not be too full, diet specific evidence type supplemented by evidence-based diet. According to the different causes of insomnia, now a few points of evidence-based dietary experience is introduced as follows: 1, heart and spleen deficiency. Symptoms of dreams and easy to wake up, palpitations and forgetfulness, dizziness, limb fatigue, fatigue, food and drink tasteless, less color, pale tongue and weak pulse, dietary therapy when the heart and spleen, nourish the blood and tranquilize the mind, it is advisable to eat food to help tonify the heart and spleen, such as wheat, lotus seeds, jujube, longan meat, and so on. Such as heart and spleen double tonic soup: longan meat, lotus seeds, jujube 15 grams each, decoction soup, drink soup food longan meat, lotus seeds, jujube. In the formula, longan meat nourishes the heart and spleen, nourishes blood and tranquillizes the mind, jujube nourishes blood and benefits qi, lotus seed nourishes the heart and tranquillizes the mind; the total presentation of nourishing the heart and spleen, nourishes blood and tranquillizes the mind. There are also lily jujube porridge and lily of the valley. 2. Heat disturbing the heart and mind. Symptoms see upset and sleeplessness, palpitations, dizziness, tinnitus, forgetfulness, lumbago, dreaming, red tongue. Dietary therapy when nourishing yin and fire, it is advisable to eat foods that help nourish yin and fire, clear the liver and regulate qi, such as lily, eggs, celery, green beans, plums, tamarind, etc. Avoid eating dry and pungent foods, such as chili pepper, ginger, pepper, mash and so on. Such as lily chicken yellow soup: three fresh eggs, 60 grams of lily, honey appropriate amount, lily water immersion 2 to 3 hours, wash, add the right amount of water, high-flame boil after the small fire pot 2 hours, into the raw egg yolk and stir, and then add honey can be two times a day, morning and evening as a snack to eat. Another lily japonica chicken, sweet wheat jujube soup and other therapeutic prescriptions. 3, Stomach Qi disharmony. Symptoms of insomnia, heavy head, dull food, abdominal distension and phlegm, warmth and nausea, greasy and yellow moss, slippery pulse. Food therapy when the elimination of phlegm, and the stomach and tranquilize the mind, such as half-summer broomcorn millet porridge: half-summer 6 grams of decoction to take the juice of the slag, add broomcorn millet 100 grams of porridge, to be porridge five ripe to add 150 grams of chopped radish, and then simmered until the porridge is cooked. Divided into 2 meals to eat. In the formula half Xia dry dampness phlegm, if the heat phlegm can be replaced with bamboo; turnip turn can be under the qi digestion, expectorant and phlegm; broomcorn millet can strengthen the spleen and seepage of dampness and stomach. The total presentation of the elimination of food and phlegm, and the stomach and tranquility. The long-term insomnia patients in addition to food therapy as a basic method of care, should also pay attention to the sleep environment, adjusting the mood and so on. The main cause of insomnia is the emotional factors, so the key is to regulate the mood, should pay attention to mental regulation, joy and anger have section, keep a happy mood. In addition, there should be appropriate daily activities to enhance physical fitness, can do qigong, tai chi, etc.; weekdays pay attention to the regularity of life, work and rest in a timely manner; evening walks and hot water foot baths before going to bed every night; or finger pressure or massage of the Baihui, Laogong, Yongquan, and other acupuncture points and slowly deep whistling can be relaxed both physically and mentally, thus inducing sleep.