Clinical observation on tongue acupuncture for treatment of stroke / 中国针灸

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To observe therapeutic effect of tongue acupuncture on stroke.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>One hundred and ninety cases were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, 95 cases in each group. The patients in the observation group were treated by tongue acupuncture combined with body acupuncture, and the control group by simple body acupuncture.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The total effective rate was 95.8% in the observation group and 80.0% in the control group, the observation group being significantly better than the control group.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Tongue acupuncture has a better therapeutic effect on stroke.</p>