Objective To research the syndrome identification and treatment adminis tration of insomnia with yang deficiency syndrome in Chinese medicine journals. Methods Literature on treating insomnia from yang defi ciency in Chinese medicine journals was searched from VIP database

Chinese Biomedical Literature Database （CBM） and China National Knowledge Internet（CNKI） from March 1979 to February 2010.The syndrome identification and treatment administration of insomnia with yang deficiency syndrome was analyzed with content analysis method from treating ideas

treating basis

treating rule and commonly used prescriptions. Results S ixty articles were selected according to the standard.The main treating ideas of insomnia from yang deficiency were disease identification（27 articles） and di sease identification combined with syndrome identification（25 articles）.The tr eating basis was symptoms of yang deficiency

tongue image and pulse（39 article s） and damage to yang and qi（14 articles）.The commonly used treating rule was warming yang and quieting the spirit（32 articles） and warming yang and suppleme nting（22 articles）.The commonly used prescriptions were Guizhi Decoction（Cinnamon Twig Decoctio n

17 articles） and self-made formulas（11 articles）

Sini Decoction（Decoction for Resuscitation

9 articles）

and Shenqi Wan（Pill for Tonifying Kidney-qi

7 articles）.Conclusio n Chinese medicine has theoretical knowledge and practical experience in treating insomnia with yang deficiency.However

it is lake of overall knowledge from the literature amo unt.