title: [Clinical study on method of "tonifying the lung to check the liver" for treatment of chronic cholecystitis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the significance of method of "tonifying the lung to check the liver" for treatment of chronic cholecystitis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty cases were randomly divided into a treatment group and a control group. The treatment group were treated with acupuncture and moxibustion by the method of "tonifying the lung to check the liver", and the control group with routine moxibustion.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After treatment of one day, pain improved significantly in the two groups (P < 0.001), with no significant difference between the two groups; and 15 days after treatment, the treatment group was superior to the control group in the improvement of pain.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  TCM syndrome differentiation has an important significance in clinical acupuncture and moxibustion, and the therapeutic principle "tonifying the lung to check the liver" in classical TCM theories is of scientific basis.
authors.affiliation: Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130041, China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Peng-xiang
authors.initials: PX
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Cui-ping
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D002764:Cholecystitis; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver; D008168:Lung; D009071:Moxibustion