Clinical study on treatment of cancerous abdominal pain by traditional Chinese medicine hot-ironing analgesic package at Shenque point combined with abdominal massage therapy / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To observe the effect of traditional Chinese medicine hot-ironing therapy at Shenque point on cancerous abdominal pain in advanced malignant tumors.@*Methods@#Forty patients with cancerous abdominal pain who met the inclusion criteria were randomly divided into two groups, 20 in each group.The control group was treated with traditional Chinese medicine hot-ironing analgesic package at Shenque point, and the treatment group was treated with abdominal massage therapy on the basis of the control group. Both groups were treated continuously for 7 days. The degree of abdominal pain was assessed using a digital assessment scale, and the quality of life was assessed using a quality of life assessment scale. The time to remission of cancerous abdominal pain was observed during the treatment period.@*Results@#After treatment, the NRS scores on the 3rd day (1.9 ± 0.6 vs. 2.4 ± 0.3, t=3.333), 5th day (1.0 ± 0.3 vs. 1.6 ± 0.5, t=4.602), 7th day (1.0 ± 0.6 vs. 2.4 ± 0.7, t=6.791), in the treatment group were significantly lower than those in the control group (P<0.01). The remission time of the treatment group was longer than that of the control group on the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th day after treatment, but there was no significant difference between the groups (t values were 0.243, 1.374, 0.185, 0.7284, P>0.05). The body function score in the treatment group (88.6 ± 13.7 vs. 77.0 ± 19.4, t=2.184) was significantly higher than that in the control group (P<0.05).@*Conclusions@#The combination of traditional Chinese medicine hot-ironing package combined with pushing therapy can alleviate the pain level and improve the quality of life of patients with cancerous abdominal pain.