title: [Clinical observation on the method for nourishing blood and moisturizing eye on xerophthalmia].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing 100730, China. yangwei@trhos.com
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Yan-chao
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Lu-quan
authors.initials: LQ
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D026881:Acupuncture; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D005123:Eye; D006801:Humans; D009071:Moxibustion; D014985:Xerophthalmia / Q000628:therapy