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Clinical Research On Moxibustion On Back-Shu Points For Treatment Of Insomnia

Posted on:2012-03-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M D XieFull Text:PDF
GTID:2154330335967832Subject:Acupuncture and Massage
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BackgroundInsomnia is one of common clinical symptoms, with the characteristics of falling asleep difficulty, waking easily after sleep, not sleep again after waking up, or even waking overnight, for high incidence and big hazard Long-term insomnia will affect severely our daily life,work,study and social activities. so it is one challenge to find effective treatment methods of insomnia for contemporary medical field.It has thought that internal organs dysfunction is the main pathogenesis of insomnia by Chinese medicine. Moxibustion is used to treat insomnia by taking the correction effect made in the back shu points about the injection port of Qi, making Qi and blood running normally, balance of Yin and Yang, harmony of Qi and blood. Therefore this study proposed and established the treatment methods and theory of insomnia by moxibustion treatment made in the back-shu points. ObjectiveTo observe the clinical deficiency of moxibustion treatment on the back-shu points and to evaluate the modulating effect of Chinese medicine moxibustion in the insomnia by clinical randomized controlled study method.MethodsThis study has selected 60 insomnia patients of heart and spleen deficiency with age of 18 to 65 years old male or female based on the diagnostic standards, dividing them randomly into two groups called treatment group with the treatment of moxibustion on the back shu points and control group with the treatment of taking Guipi Pill and Suanzaoren Pill for three courses. Observe the symptoms of traditional Chinese medicine before and after the treatment and evaluate the sleep variations of insomnia patients by the PSQI table.Results 1. Before treatment of gender, age, length of illness, symptoms of TCM, PSQI score and clinical symptoms between two groups, there was no significant difference in comparison with comparable. 2. The overall effect of insomnia after treatment, both groups had significant differences in contrast, moxibustion group more effective than conventional medicine group agreement.3. Comparing the PSQI score points and symptoms of traditional Chinese med--icine,the effect of treatment group is better than the control group. 4. Comparative efficacy of sleep quality and symptoms of traditional Chinese medicine, the effect of treatment group is better than the control group. 5. Traditional Chinese medicine clinical improvement can be seen the stat-istics:There was significant difference in the clinical symptoms of bad sleep, palpitations anxiety, lack of strength and pulse compared after tre-atment. There had no significant difference in the clinical symptoms of dizziness, pale complexion and tongue after treatment. It proved that moxi--bustion on back-shu points for treatment of insomnia was better in the cl-inical symptoms of bad sleep, palpitations anxiety,, lack of strength and pulse improver. ConclusionThe clinical comparison studies have shown that the use of moxi- -bustion treatment of internal organs back-shu points deficiency insomnia is more effective than oral drugs, mainly the back-shu points in the five internal organs moxibustion can play the dual effect of acupuncture point and moxi--bustion, and enhance the five internal organs dysfunction cause virtual permit treatment of insomnia, poor state to adjust, improve and optimize health and improve population health.ConclusionIt had shown that moxibustion on back-shu points for treatment of insomnia was more effective than oral drugs by the clinical comparison studies. Because it reflected the double effects in treatment of both warm acupuncture on back-shu points and moxibustion for insomnia, enhancing the treatment deficiency of insomnia with deficiency patterns caused the by internal organs dysfunction, adjusting the bad states, optimizing the body types and improving population health.
Keywords/Search Tags:Insomnia, moxibustion therapy, Back-shu points
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