8 Health Benefits of Acupuncture

4. Treats sleep disorders

Research shows that acupuncture can have up to 90 percent success rate at treating sleep disorders, like insomnia.

Chinese medicine aims to treat insomnia first by understanding what type of insomnia a person is suffering from. They group insomnia into the following types:

• Difficulty falling asleep— or sleep onset
• Waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to go back to sleep
• Waking up very early in the morning and not being able to go back to sleep— terminal or late insomnia
• Sleep with vivid and disruptive dreaming
• Inability to sleep in general

An acupuncturist will treat you based on your specific case, and which type of insomnia you have.

Other sleep disorders that may be treated using acupuncture include:

• Snoring
• Sleep apnea
• Restless leg syndrome