title: [Observation on therapeutic effect of pricking blood therapy combined with syndrome differentiation acupuncture on arthralgia syndrome].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe clinical therapeutic effect of pricking blood therapy combined with acupuncture on arthralgia syndrome.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred and ninety-two cases were randomly divided into a local pricking blood therapy combined with acupuncture group and a simple acupuncture control group, 96 cases in each group. Their therapeutic effects were compared.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The cured rate and the total effective rate were 83.3% and 100.0% in the treatment group and 31.0% and 87.0% in the control group with a significant difference or a very significant difference between the two groups (P < 0.05, P < 0.01); the mean times for cure in the treatment group was superior to that in the control group (P < 0.05, P < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pricking blood therapy combined with acupuncture has an obvious and definite therapeutic effect on arthralgia syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Gong'an Hospital, Beijing 100006, China.
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Zhen-zhong
authors.initials: ZZ
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Shu-zhuang
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D018771:Arthralgia; D006801:Humans; D013577:Syndrome