Clinical Studies Of Acupoint Catgut Embedding Therapy Treatment Spleen Colon With Slow Transit Constipation

Purpose:With application of Catgut embedding therapy to cure constipation resulted by spleen deficiency Qi stagnation and colon slow transit, comprehensively evaluate the therapy and operational standardization, provide evidence to determine the clinical standards and operational criterions of catgut embedding therapy and instruct the clinical treatment.Methods:All the 120 suitable constipation patients who were treated in the Eastern Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine during March 2010—December 2010 are equally divided into treatment team and correlation team, randomly. The treatment team accepts Catgut embedding therapy and the correlation team is treated with Macrogol 4000 powder for oral solution for continual 8 weeks. All the two teams keep normal dieting and no other constipation related medicines and therapies are applied. Since the date of therapy, all the effective defecation times and stool nature are recorded on daily base, and the clinical semiotic changes of pre and post-treatment are inspected separately.Results:Both the treatment team and correlation team show preferable curative effect on constipation resulted by Spleen deficiency Qi stagnation and colon slow transit. During the second week, the total effective rate of treatment is 83.33% and that of the correlation team is 75.00%, the treatment team is superior to correlation team, but that is only an insignificant difference in statistics. During the eighth week, the total effective rate of treatment is 91.67% and that of the correlation team is 73.33%, the treatment team achieves better performance than correlation team, which is valuable in statistics.Conclusions:Both the Catgut embedding therapy and the Macrogol 4000 powder for oral solution show preferable effect on constipation resulted by Spleen deficiency Qi stagnation and colon slow transit, but after dosage withdrawal, the correlation team presents a high reoccurrence rate, which means strong drug dependence. Basically, the Catgut embedding therapy is superior to correlation team in curative effect and symptoms improvement, which illustrates Catgut embedding therapy brings a practical curative effect to constipation resulted by Spleen deficiency Qi stagnation and colon slow transit.