1. [Clinical plan of acupuncture for sclerosis].
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Yang H, Liu W, Wu Y, and Zhang D
- Abstract
The literature regarding acupuncture for sclerosis in CNKI database, VIP database and Wanfang database from date of database establishment to April 1st, 2015 was retrieved. As a result, 26 articles of clinical researches and medical cases with significant efficacy were collected. It was found the methods and clinical plan of acu-puncture for sclerosis were various and distinctive, including filiform-needle acupuncture, electroacupuncture, bee acupuncture, fire acupuncture, moxibustion, herb moxibustion as well as acupuncture-moxibustion combined with cupping, hot compress, acupoint injection. It was concluded acupuncture-moxibustion combined with various methods could complement each other's strengths, and achieve synergistic effect. The efficacy was affirmative and the characteristics of TCM were significant, however, researches regarding the scientific normalization and stan-dardization of the clinical plan were needed.
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- 2016
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