[Clinical observation on pricking and blood-letting and cupping with a three-edge needle for treatment of acute eczema].
OBJECTIVE
To search for an effective therapy for acute eczema.


METHODS
Eighty-eight cases were divided into a treatment group and a control group. The treatment group (n=46) were treated with pricking the affected parts with three-edge needle and blood-letting puncturing and cupping at back-shu points with three-edge needle, and the control group (n=42) with oral administration of Clarityne and external application of Pairuisong Ointment.


RESULTS
The total effective rate and the cured and markedly effective rate were 100.0% and 89.1% in the treatment group and 88.1% and 42.9% in the control group with no significant difference in the total effective rate (P > 0.05) and with a very significant difference in the cured and markedly effective rate between the two groups (P < 0.01).


CONCLUSIONS
Pricking and blood-letting and cupping with a three-edge needle has a definite therapeutic effect on acute eczema, which is better than that of the western medicine.
Yao
Jun
J
Center of Acup-Moxibustion and Massage, Beijing Hospital of Integrated TCM and WM, Beijing 100039, China. jbyj2007@sina.com
Li
Nai-fang
NF
D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004485:Eczema / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D018962:Phlebotomy / Q000379:methods*