title: [Acupuncture combined with catgut embedding therapy for treatment of 158 cases of facial paralysis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe therapeutic effect of acupuncture combined with catgut embedding therapy on peripheral facial paralysis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Treatment group of 158 cases were treated by acupuncture combined with catgut embedding therapy and control group of 54 cases were treated by acupuncture, and their therapeutic effects were compared.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was no significant difference in the total effective rate (P > 0.05), but the cured rate in the treatment group was significantly higher than that in the control group (P < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Acupuncture combined with catgut embedding therapy is a better therapy for facial paralysis.
authors.affiliation: Shanxi Provincial Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Taiyuan 030006, China.
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D002398:Catgut; D005158:Facial Paralysis; D006801:Humans