[Clinical observation on the method for nourishing blood and moisturizing eye on xerophthalmia].
OBJECTIVE
To observe therapeutic effect of the method for nourishing blood and moisturizing eye on xerophthalmia.


METHODS
Fifty-one cases of xerophthalmia were randomly divided into a treatment group and a control group. The treatment group were treated by acupuncture, moxibustion with Chinese medicine, and auricular point pressing, and the control group were treated with dripping of artificial tears. Local symptoms of eyes, tear secretion amount (Schirmer method) and BUT were observed before and after treatment.


RESULTS
The total effective rate of 88.5% in the treatment group was better than 52.0% in the control group (P<0.05).


CONCLUSIONS
The method for nourishing blood and moisturizing eye is a better therapy for xerophthalmia.
Yang
Wei
W
Beijing Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing 100730, China. yangwei@trhos.com
Zhang
Yan-chao
YC
Liu
Dong
D
Sun
Hong
H
Chen
Lu-quan
LQ
D026881:Acupuncture; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D005123:Eye; D006801:Humans; D009071:Moxibustion; D014985:Xerophthalmia / Q000628:therapy