Progress in the Treatment of Depression Combined with Insomnia with Different Amounts of Acupuncture Stimulation

Depression and insomnia are common categories of physical and mental medicine, which are causative of each other and often occur as co-morbidities, causing a huge health and economic burden. Acupuncture treatment in insomnia co-morbidity mild-moderate depression shows better clinical efficacy, with multi-target, multi-pathway, multi-dimensional and other characteristics. However, the clinical efficacy and effect mechanism of acupuncture parameters have not been clearly determined, therefore, this paper systematically describes the possible mechanism of different acupuncture stimulation volume, including manipulation of the needle, electro-acupuncture waveform, electro-acupuncture frequency, acupuncture site, and other variables, and proposes that future research should focus on exploring the effect mechanism of different acupuncture stimulation volume in the treatment of the disease, with a view to providing theoretical basis and research ideas for the treatment of insomnia depression co-morbidities by acupuncture.