This paper introduces Professor CHEN Quanxin's characteristic experience in the treatment of perimenopausal sleep disorders by using his ancestral"Lingnan CHEN's Needle Therapy".For the under-standing of the disease,Professor CHEN advocates to distinguish the body and stage on the basis of the differentiation of disease and syndrome,that is,to understand and analyze the disease from the perspectives of disease,syndrome,constitution and the growth and decline of qi,blood,yin and yang in the perimenopausal period,as well as the function characteristics of the viscera.Professor CHEN advocates HUA Tuo's academic thoughts that"the number of acupoints selected for acupuncture should be limited"and he attaches importance to the careful observation of the patho-genesis,and selects acupoints accurately with left and right alternation.Additionally,he adopts CHEN's flying insertion of needle technique and takes special qi-conducting needling manipulations as well as grading reinforcing-reducing manipulations during the treatment,and pays attention to needle sense conduction and qi to the disease site,of which the clinical effect is definite.