To research the rules of acupoint selection inacupuncture treatment for insomnia.The literature on acupuncture treatment of insomnia from January 2000 to June 2019 in the Chinese domestic medical database was retrieved, and the frequency of acupoint use in the literature was counted.A total of 247 papers on insomnia treated by acupuncture were searched. The papers that did not meet the requirements were excluded, and 198 articles that met the statistical requirements were retained. A total of 91 acupoints were used, with a total frequency of 1 747 times.It was shown that in acupuncture treatment forinsomnia, specific acupoints were usually selected, among which the acupoints of the Bladder meridian were the most selected.