| Background:Acne, it is also known as "Pimple". It is commonly known as" Zit" by virtue of usually occurring during puberty. Acne is a sebaceous gland, chronic inflammatory skin disease, it is mainly a disease of affecting the facial appearance. Acne is not only a physical disease, its social, psychological, emotional etc. impact on patients can not be ignored. It is no less than severe asthma, epilepsy, diabetes, lumbocrural pain, arthritis etc diseases. With development of society and life quality, people have higher requirements of the quality of life. Acne is a kind of common disease, although not fatal, but for young people, the result of the mental and psychological troubles often exceeds the physical pain. The patients easily have depressed, anxiety & anger, inferiority complex and withdrawn. Abnormal Reaction makes the body in stress state, the disease is aggravated by inflammatory factor, hormone disorder. It leads up to a vicious circle of further trouble.In western medicine aspect, acne is a multifactor disease. So far, its pathogenesis has not yet entirely clear. Currently considered the occurrence of acne mainly related to excessive secretion of sebum, Pilosebaceous duct blockage, bacterial infections and inflammatory reactions etc factors. Treatment focuses on conduct topical therapy for acne, take by oral antibiotics, isotretinoin and hormone.In Chinese medicine aspect, ancient medical scholars have quite different understanding of etiology and pathogenesis of acne. But most of the argument on the heat excess of lung and stomach, blood-heat, sputum and blood stasis knot, Chong and Ren disorders, damp evil and deficiency of vital energy etc. According to clinical reports, traditional Chinese medical science and medicine, acupuncture have a certain effect with less adverse effect and safe. It has good prospects. However, most of clinical therapy focus on categorical identification in terms of surface. Ignore the combination of patient's age, physical characteristics, habit to study its fundamental treatment.The current youth's body Yin and Yang disturbances cause by innate deficiency, pressure of life and study, be overworked and psychentonia. However, the kidney is the origin of congenital constitution, the kidney Yin and Yang disorder causes hyperactivity of vital cate fire, excessive vigorous Tiangui when female at the age of 14, male at the age of 16. It is the main reason for acne. Moreover, acquired improper food and lifestyle.Therapy of abdominal acupuncture liver and kidney treats all types of acne. It is submitted by associate chief physician Jianping Mi, with his experiences of treatment of all types of acne in long-term. He thinks that all of acne patient liver and kidney disorder expect the normal appearance. The treatment mainly contains therapy of abdominal acupuncture liver and kidney in order to recuperate liver and kidney acupoints. According to clinlcal symptom, combine with the adjuvant therapy and achieve satisfying results.ObjectiveAccording to random control study, research the clinical effects of therapy of abdominal acupuncture liver and kidney treats all types of acne.MethodsChoose 100 acne patients from the acupuncture clinic of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Guangdong. They are randomly divided into the abdominal acupuncture treatment group (treatment group) and western medicine treatment group (control group). Treatment group is treated with abdominal acupuncture treatment, treatment every other day,2 weeks is one period of treatment and altogether 4 courses; Control group is treated with capsule B containing isotretinoin, the 1st month, twice a day, 10mg/time; The 2nd month, once a day, 10mg/time,2months is one period of treatment and altogether 1 courses. The scores of skin lesion and total effective rate were compared between the two groups in the pretherapy, the 4th week post-treatment and the 8th week post-treatment. Acupuncture team with 46participants had an effective rate of 91.3% after two-month treatment (18 recovery cases,12 markedly cases,12 ffective cases and 4 invalid cases). Drug team with 47 participants had an effective rate of 93.6% after two-month treatment (23 recovery cases,16 markedly cases,5 effective cases and 3 invalid cases). In addition, the results indicated that both therapies were significant in four-month treatment (p<0.05), the evaluation of skin injury between two groups had a significant difference after four months treatment (p<0.05).ConclusionTherapy of abdominal acupuncture liver and kidney will be helpful to improve acne patient skin lesion. In the short time, the abdominal acupuncture treatment and western medicine treatment have the same effect. In the long-time, the abdominal acupuncture treatment is better than western medicine treatment. |
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