Acupuncture And The Treatment Of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy Clinical Research

The paper consists two parts: the summaries of documents and a clinic research.There are 2 sumaries of documents. The first one is about the research progress of the disease in recent year. It include the cause research and treatment method.The cause of diabetic peripheral neurophathy(DPN) has not clearly expounded yet today. There many medicine used in clinic, but the curative effect is not so good, especially in the serious patients. The second one introduce the treatment progress of TCM in DPN in recent 5> 6 years. It includes the treatments applying with the pattern identification,the treatments of herbs, the treatment of Chinese patent medicine,the treatment of acupuncture , herbs immersing and so on.The clinical part is about the research of efficacy for treating diabetic peripheral neurophathy(DPN) with Tangluoning and acupuncture. 89 DPN patients conforming to the diagnostic criteria were randomly divided into the treating group(30 patients),herb group(30 patients)and control group(29 patients). On the basis of basis treatment, the herb group was given Tangluoning (for benefiting qi and nourishing yin, tonifying the liver and kidney, and activating blood circulation),and the treatment group was given the treatment of acupuncture and Tangluoning. The control group is given the methycobal(mecobalamin). The changes in the symptoms, nerve conductive velocity (NCV) were observed in the patients. The results showed that the total effective rate of the treating group was 93. 33% and that of the herb group was 80. 00% and that of control group was 62. 07% . By the ridit test, the effect of treating group was better than the control group, the difference was very significant (P<0. 01); The effect of the herb group was better than the control group, the difference was significant (P<0. 05); The effect of treating group was better than the herb group, the difference was significant (P<0. 05). And The results also showed that the herb group and the control group had obviously difference in symptoms of the limbs,pain, weakened ankle reflex, improveing the nerve conductive velocity. The treating group and the herb group also had obviouslydifference in symptoms and improveing the nerve conductive velocity. There were no obvious side effects found during the treatment. The study showed that Tangluoning had significant effect for the DNP, better than methycobal,and acupuncture can improved the effect of Tangluoning.