Insomnia is also known as “the eyes do not close”, “no sleep” no sleep” in “Nei Jing”, and its main pathogenesis is due to the loss of harmony between qi and blood, yin and yang, dysfunction of the internal organs, resulting in the loss of nourishment of the mind and spirit or disturbance of the mind and spirit, and no restful sleep. In recent years, with the accelerated pace of life and increased work pressure, insomnia has increased year by year, the author used medicinal food and external treatment method for change, simple and inexpensive, no Western drug resistance and toxic side effects, loved by patients, summarized as follows: 1, medicinal food method: 1.1 meat stew formula: princeton 30g astragalus 30g yam 30g lotus 30g gorgonian 30g lentils 30g barley 30g pig heart 1 1 lean meat half catty 2 hours after drinking only soup 1.2 infusion: sour date palm 10g Acacia 10g a doyenne 10g lotus rice core 5g 1.3 steamed pig heart: cinnabar 3g jujube 30g cardamom 6g hawthorn 30g red ginseng beard 30 g steamed 40 minutes to drink soup 2, external treatment: 2.1 pillow method: silkworm sand 2000g jujube 100g Acacia 100g chrysanthemum 100g Panax notoginseng 100g made into a pillow Use every night when sleeping, can be replaced once every three months. 2.2 Fumigation method: 50g of Guan Gui and 100g of Phellodendron are decocted for 30 minutes and then fumigate both feet for 20 minutes each time before bedtime. 2.3 Acupuncture method: select Baihui, Sishencong, Fengchi, Fengfu, Anmian, Shenmen, Neiguan, milli-needle, flat tonic and flat diarrhea, and retain the needle for 40 minutes after obtaining the qi. 2.4 Ear acupuncture pressure seeds: place one capsule of the Chinese medicine Wang Bu Liuxing in a square of medical white tape of about 0.5cmX0.5cm and put it on the heart, liver, spleen, stomach, endocrine, Shen Men and An Sleep acupuncture points in both ears. Press it 3 times a day for 5 minutes each time until localized warmth, to the extent that it is not painful. 3. Analysis: “Secret Traditions of Medical Effect. No Sleep” says: “Night is dominated by yin, yin is strong, then the eyes are closed and sleep peacefully, if the yin deficiency for yang wins, then the end of the night is troubled and sleepless person.” According to Mr. Diao, the heart harbors the spirit, and insomnia is caused by various factors that lead to deficiency of heart blood, yin, qi or hyperactive heart fire. Therefore, the treatment should not deviate from the treatment of the heart, regardless of the internal and external treatment. In external treatment, acupuncture Shen Men has the function of nourishing the heart and calming the mind, because it is the original point of the heart meridian of Shaoyin; Neiguan is one of the eight rendezvous points, and the complex point of the pericardium meridian of Que Yin, which has the function of calming the heart and calming the mind, and can also nourish the spleen and stomach; Feng Chi, Feng Fu, Baihui, which acts directly on the brain, can open the meridians and activate the channels, regulate the yin and yang of the body, soothe the emotions, and achieve the function of waking the brain and calming the mind. The ear is closely related to the internal organs and meridians of the human body, as early as in the “Yin Yang Eleven Veins Moxibustion Jing” there is a record of the ear pulse, the modern belief is that the ear has a complete microcosm of the human body, pressure son ear Shen Men, endocrine points have a two-way effect of regulating the excitement or inhibition of the cerebral cortex, in the excitement of insomnia of the cerebral cortex by pressing the stimulation of Shen Men, endocrine points, can inhibit its excitement state. Stimulation of the heart, liver, spleen and kidney points in the ear can regulate the function of the corresponding internal organs, and the normal function of the internal organs will regulate the qi and blood, and the qi and blood will be regulated, then the god will be at ease. General insomnia patients are mostly treated with western sleeping drugs, gradually forming drug resistance, forced to increase the dose and lead to increased side effects, and even the emergence of psychiatric symptoms, the patient suffering, therefore, the use of efficacy, side effects, convenient and practical, good compliance to the Chinese medicine and external treatment methods have great advantages.