Evaluation of Moxibustion with Monkshood Cake for Functional Dyspepsia on the Acupoints along Related Meridian: a Randomized and Controlled Clinical Trial
- VernacularTitle:循经取穴隔药饼灸治疗功能性消化不良:随机对照研究
- Author:
Mengdie WU
1
;
Xinyun HUANG
;
Shuang ZHAO
;
Xue ZHENG
;
Menglu QIN
;
Huangan WU
;
Jing LI
Author Information
- Keywords: Functional dyspepsia (FD); moxibusion with monkshood cake; select acupoints along related meridian
- From: World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2018;20(9):1585-1589
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: Objective: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of moxibustion with monkshood cake on the acupoints along related meridian for functional dyspepsia (FD) patients. Methods: Sixty patients suffering from functional dyspepsia who met with the inclusion criteria were enrolled in our randomized and controlled trial and randomly divided into two different groups, 30 and 28 patients have finished the treatment respectively. Patients of each group were given with moxibustion with monkshood cake on different acupoints, Group A chose acupoints along related meridian (ST 34, ST 36, ST 40 and ST42), while Group B chose acupoints along non-related meridian (GB 34, GB 36, GB 37 and GB 40) . Patients of each group received moxibustion treatment on alternate days, 3 times a week for a total of 12 times. The efficacy was evaluated using the Nepean Dyspepsia Index (NDI) and the Somatic Self-rating Scale (SSS) before, 2 weeks after and 4 weeks after the treatment, respectively. Results: Considering the NDI scale, the result showed that improvement scores of Group A were higher than that of Group B with statistical significance (P ＜ 0.01) . Both groups had improved patients' quality of life after the treatment (P ＜ 0.05), but the improvements in Group A were significantly better than those in Group B (P ＜ 0.01) . Conclusion: The clinical efficacy of moxibusion with monkshood cake on the acupoints along related meridian was better than that of the non-related meridian.
