Clinical observation on acupoint injection therapy for chronic gastritis of gastric blood stasis type / 中国针灸

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To objectively evaluate the clinical effect of acupoint injection therapy for chronic gastritis of gastric blood stasis type.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>One hundred and two cases arranged by registration order were randomly divided into an acupoint injection group and a medicine group, 51 cases in each group. The acupoint injection group was treated with acupoint injection of compound Danshen injection, and Zusanli (ST 36) and Weishu (BL 21) were selected, and the medicine group with oral administration of Omeprazole. After 2 weeks of treatment, the clinical effect and improvement of endoscopic gastric mucosal lesions were observed.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The clinical total effective rate of 96.1% (49/51) in the acupoint injection group was better than 76.5% (39/51) in the medicine group (P < 0.01). The symptom score decreased significantly after treatment and the gastric mucosal lesion was significantly improved in both of the two groups (all P < 0.05), and the acupoint injection group was superior to the medicine group (all P < 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Acupoint injection has outstanding effect for treatment of chronic gastritis of gastric blood stasis type and this therapy is worth generalizing and applying.</p>