ABSTRACT
Insomnia is one of the most prevalent psychological disorders worldwide. Some of the deficiencies of the current treatments of insomnia are: side effects in the case of sleeping pills and high costs in the case of psychotherapeutic treatment. In this paper, we propose a device which provides a combination of audiovisual entrainment (AVE) and acupressure therapy for insomnia. This device provides drug-free treatment of insomnia through a user friendly and portable device that enables relaxation of brain and muscles, with certain advantages such as low cost, and wide accessibility to a large number of people. Tools adapted toward the treatment of insomnia are audio, visual, and acupressure points unit. Audio unit consists of continuous exposure to binaural beats of a particular frequency of audible range, visual unit comprises of flash of LED light, and the acupressure points were found to be as GB-20, GV-16, and B-10.
