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.

The authors undertook acupuncture-moxibustion therapy for 34 patients with vertigo. In order to objectify the patients' condition and the efficacy of the treatment, we ranked the severity of symptoms and standardized the treatment procedure, and also we set up the criterion for evaluation of efficaciousness.
The severity of symptoms was determined according to the result of some tests (for nystagmus and balance) as well as patient's chief complaints: the incidence and the intensity of feelings of rotation, giddiness, etc.
Treatment was undertaken once a week. One course was consist of ten treatments. Scarless moxibustion was applied to the Second Dadun point in the first course, and body-acupuncture was added to the moxibustion in the second course. In the third course, the scarless moxibustion, the body-acupuncture, auricular-acupuncture and scalp skin acupuncture were undertaken.
The efficaciousness of the treatment was rated as “remarkably efficacious”, “very efficacious”, “efficacious” or “no change” according to the changes in patients' complaints and the results of the tests performed after each course.
Twelve of the patients showed improvement after the first course (remarkably efficacious) and other twelve after the second course (very efficacious), and five of them after the third course (effecacious). The other five patients underwent more than four courses (no change).
In conclusion, improvement was seen in 85% of the patients after 30 sessions of acupuncture-moxibustion treatment including scarless moxibustion to the Second Dadun, body and auricular-acupuncture.

Acupuncture-moxibustion treatment was undertaken on two patients (a 34-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman) who were diagnosed as allergic rhinitis in an otorhinological department. The patients underwent the treatment once a week, in which direct-or scarless-moxibustion (15 pieces) was applied to Tachui (GV14) and acupuncture for whole body adjustment. The subjective symptoms, eosinophil in pituita and the results of other blood examinations were compared with those of their first visits. The eosinophiles in the pituita disappeared and those in the blood fell to the average level. Although there are individual differences, a certain prolonging effect was seen in the follow-up data.