Purpose:Through investigating the efficacy of acupuncture on patients suffering from Essential Tremor(ET) to provide a reference for the clinical treatment of ET.Method:60 casesof ET were evenly divided into two groups--a treatment group and a control group.The control group were treated with propranolol,and the treatment group were treated with acupuncture and propranolol.After 12 weeks,the therapeutic effects were assessed with six tasks scores in application of statistical software SPSS17.0 statistical analysis of two groups of data, to evaluate the treatment results, comparing two groups of curative effects.Results:The total effective rate was 86.7% in the treatment group and 73.3% in control group.And the difference of the clinical effects between the two group was obvious(P<0.05).Conclusion:Acupuncture therapy combined with propranolol therapy was superior.
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