A Clinical Study On The Effect Of Blood-letting Therapy On Acne

ObjectiveAcne is one of common dermatosis.It often occurres in adolescence,and does harm to appearance,also influences people's quality of life.With the improvement of people's living standard,people pay more and more attention to their appearance,meanwhile more and more related clinical researches are done.In both traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine,many methods are used to treat acne with its own advantage.Among them,blood-letting therapy attains a good clinical efficacy in treating acne.Based on this,I carried out the clinical research to investigate and prove the technical specifications,safety and efficacy in order to provide the clinical evidence for promoting this therapy.Research Methods40 cases of patients with acne were evenly divided into two groups at random.These cases were divided into three syndrome types by Traditional Chinese medicine differentiation.They are as follows:the pattern of wind and fire violating the lungs with 8 cases,the pattern of Damp Heat Collecting in the Spleen and stomach with 24 cases,the pattern of Chong and Ren meridians disorders.The treatment group adopted cupping in chosen points with blood-letting every two days.6 times for a therapeutic period and two therapeutic periods totally had been done.The cases in control group used viaminate and vitamin E cream before sleep every day.15 days for a therapeutic period and two therapeutic periods totally had been done.Observations1.Mark the skin lesions of each case with Global Acne Granding System(GAGS),and calculate the integration of skin lesions before and after the treatment.2.Acne lesions usual evaluation:cured:N≥95%;produced:70%≤N<95%;effective: 50%≤N<70%;invalid:N<50%,or acne increased.Skin damage dissipated rate(N) =[(lesions integral before treatment- lesions integral after treatment)÷lesion integral before treatment]×100%.Results1.The comparison between the treatment group and the control group in age,course of diseases,integral lesions,age bracket and illness conditions had comparability(p>0.05). The result suggested that there was no difference between these two groups in clinical data.2.After treatment,the lesions integrals of both two groups were significantly different from the lesions integral before treatment(p<0.01).It suggested that the treatment of these two groups both had a good curative effect in treating acne.3.After treatment,the lesions integrals of the two groups were significantly different (p<0.01).It suggested that the curative effect of the treatment group was better than the control group.4.After treatment,the rate of marked improvement of this two group are significantly different(p<0.01).It suggested that the curative effect of the treatment group was better than the control group.ConclusionsThe clinical research showed blood-letting therapy was better than viaminate and vitamin E cream in treating acne.The therapy had the features of the fast effect,high cure rate,low rate of recurrence and no side effects.Since then it's worthy of further clinical application.