The present-stage advantage diseases of abdominal acupuncture from reports of clinical randomized controlled trial / 中国针灸
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
; (12): 836-839, 2013.
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ABSTRACT
The reports of clinical randomized controlled trial (RCT) that takes abdominal acupuncture as main treatment are arranged in order to summarize its advantage diseases at current stage. Up to May 1st, 2012, 107 reports that meet the inclusion criteria are collected by computer retrieval in CBM database, CNKI, VIP, Wan fang database, PubMed, Embase and manual retrieval in outdated issue database of Guangzhou University of CM. Diseases that has better efficacy by abdominal acupuncture are summarized. There are 38 kinds of present-stage advantage diseases of abdominal acupuncture, including internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology, pediatrics, orthopedics and dermatology, but those are far less than abdomen needle indications in the Abdominal Acupuncture Therapy written by Professor BO Zhi-yun. The doctors of abdominal acupuncture should not only pay attention to the application of RCT in clinical research to acquire high-quality reports, but also improve one's level of treatment and research of abdominal acupuncture to apply it into more specialist areas.
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Main subject:
Acupuncture Points
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Acupuncture Therapy
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Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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Abdomen
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
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Guideline
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Zh
Journal:
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
Year:
2013
Type:
Article