[Observation on clinical therapeutic effect of acupuncture on apoplectic pseudobulbar palsy].
OBJECTIVE
To find a clinically effective therapy for apoplectic pseudobulbar palsy.


METHODS
Seventy-five cases of apoplectic pseudobulbar palsy were randomly divided into 3 groups, acupuncture group, western medicine group and acupuncture plus medicine group. They were treated for one month.


RESULTS
The scores for clinical symptoms and signs, and the clinical scores for water provocative test in the acupuncture plus medicine group and the acupuncture group were superior to that in the western medicine group with significant difference (P < 0.01), and the therapeutic effects of the 3 groups were related with age, course of disease and condition of illness.


CONCLUSIONS
Acupuncture has some predominances in treatment of apoplectic pseudobulbar palsy.
Chen
Xing-hua
XH
No. 1 Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of TCM, Guangdong 510405, China.
Lai
Xin-sheng
XS
Chen
Zhi-zhong
ZZ
D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D006801:Humans; D020828:Pseudobulbar Palsy