As a common clinical disease，insomnia often leads to a low mental state of patients during the day，which seriously affects their normal life.Chinese medicine has unique therapeutic features in the treatment of insomnia，among which the massage therapy is widely recognized by patients due to its simplicity and inefficiency.The authors in this article summarize the clinical researches on the application of massage typing for insomnia in recent years，and provide a reference for the clinical massage typing for insomnia.