In China, acupuncture has a long history of treating insomnia just like acupuncture treats other diseases. The methods commonly used by clinical acupuncturists today include body acupuncture, auricular acupressure, electroacupuncture, moxibustion, skin acupuncture, wrist and ankle acupuncture, etc. The ideas of acupuncture points include taking acupuncture points according to the meridians (acupuncture points according to the connection between the meridians’ circulation and the internal organs and acupuncture points according to the connection between the meridians’ circulation and the brain), taking acupuncture points locally according to modern anatomical and physiological knowledge and taking acupuncture points according to the experience of old Chinese medicine practitioners. In addition, it is common to apply two treatment methods simultaneously, such as body and ear acupuncture together, acupuncture and moxibustion together, acupuncture and medicine together, ear acupuncture with medicine, body acupuncture combined with tui-na, etc. For the operation time of acupuncture for insomnia, a few physicians believe that choosing afternoon or before bedtime for acupuncture treatment is more obvious for the improvement of sleep depth in insomnia patients, and most physicians agree that auricular acupuncture is more effective when it is intensively stimulated before bedtime. Although there are many clinical reports of acupuncture for insomnia, there is a general problem of low-level repetition from the perspective of clinical research.