It's 1am and Jonny has woken up yet again.  Ever since he had his surgery on his femur from a snow boarding accident a few months ago, he's been experiencing dizzy spells during the daytime and his sleep has been restless at night.  Betty is just lying in bed hoping to fall asleep.  She works as a personal assistant to a high end executive.  She can't seem to shut her brain off worrying about a project she completed today and stressed about what her boss will want from her tomorrow.  Judy is 58 years old had a hard time falling asleep for no apparent reason, tossed and turned for the last few hours and has now woken up at 3am in a puddle of sweat.  

Getting a good night’s sleep is a vital part of being in good health.  Your body resets itself, heals and rejuvenates while you’re sleeping.  But if you have a hard time sleeping, how can acupuncture help?

All three of these people would be diagnosed with insomnia upon visiting a Western doctor and would most likely be prescribed a sleep aid.  On the contrary, in Chinese medicine, although all three of them are experiencing the same issue, it stems from something very different in each individual.  This calls for acupuncture and herbal prescriptions fine tuned to their particular imbalance.

Jonny would be diagnosed with a depletion of blood energy, Betty a stagnation of liver energy and Judy a depletion of kidney yin energy.  In order to effectively ease and eliminate insomnia, no two patients would be treated the exact same way, for no individual is an exact copy of another.