Acupuncture treatment of regulating spirit, activating blood and relieving pain for thalamic pain

To compare the clinical effect of acupuncture treatment and western medicine Carbamazepine for thalamic pain. Crossover trial design was used, 11 cases diagnosed as thalamic pain were randomly divided into two groups according to the mini-unbalance-index method, group I (with 6 cases received acupun...

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Published inZhōngguó zhēnjiǔ Vol. 30; no. 5; p. 367
Main Authors Zhang, Xue, Fan, Xiao-Nong, Ding, Luo, Zhang, Hai-Tao, Wu, Lian-Zhong, Wang, Hai-Rong
Format Journal Article
LanguageChinese
Published China 01.05.2010
Subjects
Acupuncture Therapy
Adult
Aged
Blood Circulation
Carbamazepine - therapeutic use
Cross-Over Studies
Female
Humans
Male
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Middle Aged
Pain - physiopathology
Pain Management
Pain Measurement
Spirituality
Thalamus - physiopathology
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Summary:To compare the clinical effect of acupuncture treatment and western medicine Carbamazepine for thalamic pain. Crossover trial design was used, 11 cases diagnosed as thalamic pain were randomly divided into two groups according to the mini-unbalance-index method, group I (with 6 cases received acupuncture first and then western medicine) and group II (with 5 cases received western medicine first and then acupuncture). When the effects were evaluated, the two groups were named as acupuncture group and western medicine group, 11 cases in each group. The method of clearing away the heart fire, regulating the spirit, activating blood and relieving pain was adopted in acupuncture treatment, Ximen (PC 4), Yinxi (HT 6), Xuehai (SP 10) and Zhaohai (KI 6) were selected; the western medicine group was treated with oral administration of Carbamazepine, and one course as well as the eluting period were both 10 days. The effects were evaluated with visual analogue scale (VAS) and evaluation scale of Anderson Cancer Center
ISSN:0255-2930