Clinical efficacy of catgut embedding combined with thunder-fire moxibustion in treatment of melasma

VernacularTitle:雷火灸和穴位埋线治疗黄褐斑的临床效果
Author: Luquan CHEN ; Jianhua QU ; Huiting ZHU
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Melasma; Thunder-fire moxibustion; Catgut embedding
From: Chinese Journal of Medical Aesthetics and Cosmetology 2016;22(1):42-44
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the clinical effect of treating melasma by catgut embedding combined with thunder-fire moxibustion and acupuncture.Methods Between September 2011 to December 2012,82 cases of melasma patients in Acupuncture Department of Tongren Hospital were randomly recruited into test group (42 cases) and control group (40 cases).Test group was treated by catgut embedding combined with thunder-fire moxibustion and other 40 cases of control group were treated by common acupuncture.Then therapy effects were observed 8 weeks after treatments.Results In test group,general efficient rate of 42 cases was 97.6％,cure rate was 23.8％;in control group,general efficient rate of 40 cases was 72.5％,and cure rate was 15％.By statistical analysis,the effect of the test group was obviously higher than that of the control group (P＜0.05).Conclusions The treatment of melasma by catgut embedding combined with thunder fire moxibustion achieves more effective outcomes than common acupuncture.