Insomnia is defined as the usual lack of normal sleep, the inability to sleep or stay asleep.

It is an abnormal vigil. Insomnia is the chronic inability to fall asleep, to stay asleep at night or to feel renewed after sleeping: you cannot sleep as necessary for optimal activity and well-being. It is considered that there is insomnia when this lack of sleep is normal is usual, reaching even the most severe cases the inability to fall asleep all night

Traditional Chinese Medicine considers that during the night the Yang submerges into the Yin and it emerges. The Yang enters the Yin. When this happens, we sleep and the body regulates itself and adjusts during the sleep phase. Homeostasis is recovered. If this does not happen, because Yang is excessive and Yin cannot bend it, or simply, Yin is insufficient to subdue Yang during the night, then there is an imbalance or imbalance between YIN-YANG that alters sleep and produces insomnia.

For MTC, insomnia is the usual lack of sleep, and distinguishes different levels of severity:

* mild cases

-Difficulty getting to sleep

– lack of deep sleep

-wake up frequently during sleep

-wake up and never fall asleep again

* severe cases:

-impossibility of falling asleep all night

Insomnia is usually part of a picture in which other symptoms such as dizziness, headache, palpitations, failure and memory loss, agitation and restlessness also appear

Prevention and care:

• Avoid the use of exciting or stimulating substances (coffee, alcohol, tobacco, materials, etc)

• Control emotional impact as much as possible

• Keep a schedule and life plan as regular as possible, which includes moderate physical exercise and punctuality and regularity at rest

• It is important to gradually decrease physical and mental activity from the late afternoon, when the Yin begins to emerge until the moment the patient lies down

The first measure in terms of diet therapy is to recommend light dinners avoiding copious dinners at all costs and / or with the presence of »strong» foods.

In the first place because Liver and Gallbladder participate very directly and actively in the digestive process. If we tire it excessively with the digestion of a very strong and / or abundant dinner, we prevent them from taking the necessary rest to take care of what must be their main task during the night: the Hun government and, therefore, the control of the dream.

At present ,with the rhythm imposed by working life as far as food is concerned, the general trend is:

• Poor and rushed breakfast

• Poor or poor quality food that is usually made outside the home.

• Very copious dinner, to compensate for the rest of the day

Excess should be avoided not only in terms of quantity, but in terms of the type of food ingested.

Acupuncture treatment can last between a few weeks or months, depending on each person. Insomnia usually remits between four and ten sessions, although it is often necessary to help with moxibustion and certain medicinal plants.