Abstract: Objective: To investigate the effects of scraping therapy combined with acupoints application on sleep quality of patients with chronic insomnia.Methods: We enrolled 60 patients with chronic insomnia admitted in the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Chinese Medicine from September 2018 to March 2019. These patients were evenly divided into the experimental group or the control group randomly. Patients in the control group received the rountine treatment of Estazolam. Patients in the experimental group received scraping therapy combined with acupoints application besides Estazolam. The treatment duration for both groups was 30 days. After treatment, we analyzed the clinical efficacy of the treatments, score of Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and treatment safety in both groups. Results: The total effective rate was 63.3% in the control group while it was 93.3% in the experimental group. The effective rate in the experimental group was significantly higher than that of the control group (P<0.01). The total PSQI scores were lower in the two groups after the treatments than those before the treatments (P<0.01). However, the total PSQI score was much lower in the experimental group than that in the control group (P<0.01). Conclusion: Scraping therapy combined with acupoints application can improve the sleep quality of patients with chronic insomnia, and its effectiveness is better than that of the routine Estazolam treatment.

Key words: scraping therapy; acupoints application; chronic insomnia