[Clinical application of acupuncture for treatment of heroin withdrawal syndrome].
OBJECTIVE
To make technical standard of acupuncture manipulation for acupuncture treatment of heroin withdrawal syndrome.


METHODS
Two hundred and twenty cases of heroin withdrawal syndrome were randomly divided into an acupuncture group of 111 cases and a control group of 109 cases. They were respectively treated with acupuncture and oral administration of lofexidine hydrochloride, and their therapeutic effects were observed.


RESULTS
The heroin dependence (acute stage) were effectively withdrawn in the two groups. The treatment group in change of total scores for withdrawal symptoms before and after treatment, the total scores for withdrawal symptoms at the 4th and 5th days, treatment of insomnia and the score for self-Hamilton Anxiety Scale and the score after at the 4th day was superior to the control group (P < 0.05, P < 0.01, P < 0.001).


CONCLUSIONS
Acupuncture has a satisfactory, rapid, safe and reliable clinical therapeutic effect.
Wen
Tun-Qing
TQ
Changsha City Hospital of TCM, Hunan 410025, China. tqwen3228@sina.com
Yang
Zhao-Jun
ZJ
Lei
Xi-Ling
XL
Xu
Sha-Hui
SH
Huang
Ying
Y
Du
Ge-Shu
GS
Zhang
Guang-Li
GL
Cai
Zhi
Z
Tang
Jiang-Ping
JP
Cao
Jian-Hua
JH
Zhang
Xue-Hui
XH
Shan
Fei-Bao
FB
D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D001007:Anxiety; D003932:Heroin; D006556:Heroin Dependence; D006801:Humans; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome
D003932:Heroin