[Evaluation of the literatures of clinical studies on acupuncture and moxibustion for treatment of sensorineural hearing loss].
OBJECTIVE
To understand the survey of studies on acupuncture and moxibustion for treatment of sensorineural hearing loss at home.


METHODS
By searching China journal web, 60 correlative papers from Jan. 1994 to Aug. 2004 were found and analyzed.


RESULTS
Descriptive studies accounted for 71.7% and trial studies accounted for 28.3%. The diseases studied were mainly sudden deafness and the treatment methods were principally auricular acupuncture and body acupuncture. Most papers did not have definite diagnosis standard, and most criteria of therapeutic effects were self-stipulated, with no detail processing methods for the results, and only one paper reported adverse reaction.


CONCLUSIONS
The therapeutic effects of acupuncture and moxibustion on sensorineural hearing loss need to be confirmed with studies of higher quality.
Liu
Bin
B
Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China. liubin0523@yahoo.com.cn
Du
Yuan-hao
YH
D026881:Acupuncture; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural; D003639:Hearing Loss, Sudden; D006801:Humans; D009071:Moxibustion