The Clinical Study Of Abdominal Acupuncture Therapy On Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infection

Objective:Acute upper respiratory tract infection is the most common clinical infective disease,and about 70%-80%of it is caused by virus infection,with a proportion of about 40%of the entire outpatients in emergency clinic.Fever, tiredness,headache and other syndromes of the upper respiratory infection influences the daily work and even the life severely.Virus infection usually has a bad effect to the older and children.So the effective therapy on upper respiratory infection has significant clinical meanings.The anti-viral medicines to upper respiratory tract infection such as Amantadine and Ribavirin have their defects like low specificity and many side effects,so the clinical application of these drugs is limited.Modern pharmacology and clinic study datum indicated that traditional Chinese Medicine has an affirmative curative effect on anti-viral field and with fewer side effects. But most of the outpatient in the emergency department got a high temperature, which is in an acute condition and needs to handle promptly.However,the full process of frying makings and drug effect of the Traditional Chinese Medicine takes a long time.Acupuncture treatment therapy is the important component of the traditional medical treasure-house of our country,and has a remarkable and prompt curative effect in treating various kinds of diseases.Acupuncture therapy,especially abdominal acupuncture therapy developed recently is causing attention to the clinician because of its virtues such as easy to operate,with no pain,nice curative effect and safety,so it gradually has an extensively study and clinical application.The clinical research of more than nearly 20 years indicates the abdominal acupuncture therapy fetches curative effect rapidly in treating many acute diseases in clinical practice, so it has a great application value in emergency and is good for popularization. This subject aimed at discussing its clinical curative effect through observing abdomen acupuncture therapy in treating fever and other syndromes caused by acute upper respiratory tract infection.And observe the clinic therapeutic effect of abdominal acupuncture therapy in the treatment of upper respiratory tract infection differentiated of fengrefanbiao syndrome and shushixibiao syndrome,and to confirm the canonical prescription of abdominal acupuncture to acute upper respiratory tract infection.Methods:Using the randomization comparison method to divide the patients who are diagnosed as acute upper respiratory infection into two groups which named abdominal acupuncture therapy(treat group)and western medicine(comparison group),and observing the results of treatment effect on the patients who are diagnosed as fengrefanbiao syndrome and shushixibiao syndrome in TCM,And evaluating the safety of the abdominal acupuncture therapy.Results:The defervesce time of abdominal acupuncture group and western medicine group are both below 30min;there are 3 patients in acupuncture group and 10 in western medicine group can defervesce to normal on the 2^ndhour with a prominent statistics meanings between them(P＜0.05),indicating the defervesce rate is faster in western medicine group in the first 2 hours,and there are 12 patients in acupuncture group and 18 in western medicine group can defervesce to the normal level on the 3^rdhour;and there are 14 patients in acupuncture group and 21 in western medicine group can defervesce to the normal level within the observational time(3.5h)but both of the comparisons has no statistics meanings(P＞0.05);indicating the defervesce rate is equal to each other after the 2^ndhour.The total effective ratio is 80%in acupuncture group and 92.5%in western medicine group and there is no statistics meaning between them,indicating the whole curative effect is equal between the two groups,but in the symptoms,alleviating aspect,the scoring distance fore-and-aft the treatment is 11.53±3.37 in abdominal acupuncture group which is obviously higher than that of western group with a statistics meaning (P＜0.05),indicating the curative effect of abdominal acupuncture therapy is superior to that of western medicine in the syndrome alleviating aspect. Conclusions:1.Clinical study indicates not only abdominal acupuncture therapy has favorable curative effects on antipyretic aspect but also meliorate the syndromes caused by acute upper respiratory tract infection such as chilly,sore throat,headache,body ache etc.And the comprehend effect of abdominal acupuncture therapy is superior to the western medicine group.2.The abdominal acupuncture therapy is worth popularizing in the emergency department because of its simple manipulation,painlessness, safety and prompt curative effect.