Clinical Curative Effect Compairson On Chronic Urticaria Wind-Heat Syndrome With Cleairng Heat And Promoting Diuresis Decoction In Combination With Shenque Acupoint Cupping Therapy

Objective: This subject aims to study the clinical effect of clearing heat andpromoting diuresis decoction in combination with Shenque acupoint cupping therapy andthat of oral antihistamine Qufeng itching Oral Liquid on chronic urticaria, as well as theirinfluence on patients’ quality of life, so as to provide effective methods for clinicaltreatment.Method: This subject consulted the diagnostic criteria of urticaria in Standards fordiagnosis and curative effect of Chinese medical symptom issued by State Administrationof Traditional Chinese Medicine and selected74patients with chronic wind-heat typeurticaria in strict accordance with the inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria. All the caseswere diagnosed with chronic wind-heat type urticaria in the Dermatology Clinic of theFirst Affiliated Hospital of Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine University from March2012to October2012. We adopted the method of random number table, and divided the74chronic wind-heat type urticaria patients who met the criteria into two groups randomly,with37cases in the treatment group and37ones in the control group. The course oftreatment was4weeks. Clinical observation forms (form of skin lesion symptoms andform of general symptoms) were used to give scores before the treatment, after2and4weeks’ treatment, as well as1week after withdrawal of drug, respectively. And statisticalanalysis was also performed for the symptom score reducing index, adverse reactions,recurrence rate, etc. Patients in the control group were given oral Qufeng itching OralLiquid. The score of clinical symptoms and signs, clinical effects and dermatology life quality indexes of two groups before and after treatment were compared after2and4weeks’ treatment respectively.Result:(1) Curative effect: The total effective rate of the treatment group was94.59%and that of the control group was75.67%, showing significant difference (P <0.05).Through the comparison of the scores of skin lesion symptoms before and after treatment,a result was obtained that in the five indexes including degree of pruritus, size and durationand number of skin lesions as well as frequency of onset, the treatment group wassignificantly better than the control group, all showing significant difference.(2)Recurrence rate: The recurrence rate of the treatment group was lower, showing significantdifference compared with the control group (P <0.05).(3) Adverse event rate: The adverseevent rate of the treatment group was lower than that of the control group (P <0.05).Conclusion: The clearing heat and promoting diuresis decoction in combination withShenque acupoint cupping has good clinical effects on chronic wind-heat type urticaria, aswell as Qufeng itching Oral Liquid. But the former is significantly better than the later, andthe former has obvious advantages in reducing recurrence rate and degree of adversereactions, thus it has significant effects on improving patients’ quality of life. It also hashigh safety, worthy of wide clinical application as an effective method to treat chronicwind-type urticaria.