Discussion on the suitable diseases and symptoms of bleeding therapy.
- Author:
Bo CHEN
1
;
Cen GAO
;
Choog LI
;
Ze-lin CHEN
;
Yi GUO
Author Information
1. Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Bibliography of Medicine;
Bibliometrics;
Bloodletting;
methods;
Databases, Bibliographic;
Humans;
Meta-Analysis as Topic;
Retrospective Studies
- From:
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
2009;29(5):397-399
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
In order to explore the suitable diseases and symptoms treated by bleeding therapy so as to guide the clinical practice. The retrospective study of periodical literature series is used and all clinical literatures about bleeding therapy were searched in the China Journal Full Text Database in CNKI, the VIP Chinese Scientific Journals Full Text Database (CSJD), Wanfang Database, and the Chinese Bio-medical Literature Database, and the frequen cy of the literature and the total cases treated with bleeding therapy were statistically analyzed, and the principles and methods of clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine were used to classify and grade the literatures, and the diseases were classified according to the international statistical classification about diseases and related healthy problems (ICD10) issued by World Health Organization. As a result, 1149 effective literatures including 98,526 cases were searched out, which were involved in 18 major systems and 261 kinds of diseases. It is indicated that the bleeding therapy has lots of suitable diseases and symptoms and it is worth to be popularized. Particularly, this therapy has obvious advantages for treatment of herpes zoster, acne, hordeolum, cervical spondylosis, and oral ulcer.
