The treatment of method of regulating qi by alleviation of mental depress in chronic abacteria prostatitis / 中华男科学杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVES</b>To evaluate the efficacy of method of regulating qi by alleviation of mental depress for chronic abacteria prostatitis (CAP).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>From Aug. 2000 to Dec. 2000, 60 patients underwent TCM treatment with either method of regulating qi by alleviation of mental depress (31 cases) or promoting blood circulation (29 cases).</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The marked rate and effective rate were 83.86%, 93.55% in treatment group, and 65.52%, 93.10% in the control group, respectively. The marked rate in treatment group was higher than that of control group. Scores of NIH-CPSI were more decreased in treatment group than that in control group(P < 0.05). The quality of life improved significantly in treatment group than that in control group (P < 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>Method of regulating qi by alleviation of mental depress had its advantage over methods of promoting blood circulation for CAP and was an effective treatment modality for CAP.</p>