Insomnia is a disorder of initiaton and maintenance of sleep that results in daytime sleepiness and dysfunction, and arises from multiple psychological, physiologic and environmental factors. A number of stroke patients suffer from insomnia classified as one of the sleep disorders associated with physical illness and on the contrary insomnia may have profound deleterious effects on the natural course of stroke. We experiened three cases of stroke patients with insomnia. In the point of Differentiation of Syndromes, these subjects were diagnosed as Excessive heat-fire syndrome of stroke and were administrated with Hwangyeonhaedog-tang Gamibang. After treatment, both sleep patterns and other accompanied symptoms improved.