[Survey of point prescriptions of acupuncture treatment for urinary retention].
OBJECTIVE
To summarize characteristics of the point prescriptions for acupuncture treatment of urinary retention from 1994 to 2005.


METHODS
Review of literature was made from following five aspects: body acupuncture, scalp acupuncture, ear acupuncture, hand acupuncture and abdomen acupuncture. For the prescriptions of body acupuncture, further analysis was made on single point prescription, distal-proximal point association, superior-inferior point association, point selection according to syndrome differentiation and point selection according to disease differentiation.


CONCLUSIONS
Acupuncture has affirmative therapeutic effect on urinary retention. However, there are still problems to be resolved in clinical researches at present.
Gao
Shu-hong
SH
First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin College of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China.
Lu
Ming-xia
MX
D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016055:Urinary Retention / Q000628:therapy*