title: [Treatment of 120 cases of pseudobulbar palsy of wind-phlegm type with needling method for dispelling wind and expelling phlegm].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe clinical therapeutic effects of needling method for dispelling wind and expelling phlegm on pseudobulbar palsy of wind-phlegm type.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two hundred and forty cases of pseudobulbar palsy of wind-phlegm type were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, 120 cases in each group, and they were treated by needling method for dispelling wind and expelling phlegm, and intravenous dripping of cytidine diphosphate choline injection plus blank needling method, respectively. One month later, main symptoms and signs were systematically compared and assessed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The cured rate and the total effective rate were 40.7% and 89.0% in the observation group respectively, which were superior to 7.6% and 37.0% in the control group (P < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The needling method for dispelling wind and expelling phlegm has obvious therapeutic effect on pseudobulbar palsy of wind-phlegm type.
authors.affiliation: Second Affiliated Hospital of Hunan TCM College, Changsha 410005, China. qmwu6789@163.com
authors.forename: Qing-ming
authors.initials: QM
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Guo-xiang
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Wei-ai
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Ben-li
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yan-ling
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Zhi-ping
authors.initials: ZP
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xuan-chao
authors.initials: XC
authors.lastname: Yi
mesh_terms: D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D020828:Pseudobulbar Palsy; D014919:Wind