Tinnitus is one of the most common ear symptoms, which annoys otolaryngologists. We have treated these patients suffering from tinnitus, with acupuncture, a technique of traditional oriental medicine.
This study includs 55 patients, 22 males and 33 female who came to the ENT department of National Medical Center Hospital of Japan from March 1982 to April 1983.
We chose two points for acupuncture. First is upper part of tragus. Here we set a needle and stimulated with low frequency electricity. Second is cymba conchae which is said to have some relation with kidney in oriental medicin A needle was set here and remained for a week.
Tinnitus was improved in 31 cases (56%) and remained unchanged in 24 cases. Improvement was seen particular in the cases seemed to have psychogenic or autonomic causes.
We consider acupuncture for tinnitus is one of the way for the treatment in tinnitus.