title: [Clinical observation on Chinese drug acupoint-injection for treatment of acquired abducent paralysis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To seek for an effective therapy for abducent paralysis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy-six cases of abducent paralysis were randomly divided into an acupoint-injection group and a western medicine group. The acupoint-injection group were treated by point-injection therapy, with Jingming (BL 1), Yangbai (GB 14), Sibai (ST 2), Tongziliao (GB 1) on the affected side, and bilateral Ganshu (BL 18) used as basic points and compound Danggui Injection as the principal injected medicine, and in combination with corresponding acupoints and injected medicine according to different syndrome types. The western medicine group were treated with routine western medicine therapy. After treatment for 36 days, the therapeutic effects were recorded and analyzed statistically.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The total effective rate was 94.7% in the acupoint-injection group and 76.3% in the western medicine group with a significant difference between the two groups (P < 0.05); there was a significant difference between the two groups in eyeball moving rate and restoration of cateral rectus (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Chinese drug acupoint-injection therapy has a definite therapeutic effect on acquired abducent paralysis, which is better than that of routine western medicine.
authors.affiliation: The First Central Hospital of Baoding City, Hebei 071000, China. ren2007ying@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Feng-kuan
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Qiu
mesh_terms: D000010:Abducens Nerve; D015669:Acupuncture Points; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D009886:Ophthalmoplegia / Q000628:therapy*