title: [Clinical curative effect of combination between medicine and acupoint flow on SOD, NO in patients with ulcerative colitis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the clinical curative effect of the combination between medicine and acupoint flow on SOD, NO in patients with ulcerative colitis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two hundred sixty two patients with ulcerative colitis were randomly divided into four groups: the patients in traditional Chinese medicine group were fed with changpikang, the patients in ear acupoint group were pasted and pressed spleen, large intestine, sympathesis, subcortex; the patients in medicine and acupoint group were taken with Changpikang and ear acupoint; the patients in treatment group were treated by taking sulfasalazine, with a treatment course of four weeks. The changes of SOD, NO before and after treatments were recored.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was a significant difference between four groups before and after treatment (P < 0.05), medicine and acupoint group was superior to that others (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The method of combination between medicine and acupoint could increase the contents of SOD, decrease the level of NO, elevate the potential of organism to resist oxygen free radical and promote intestinal tract ulcer concrescence.
authors.affiliation: Hebei Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang 050011, China.
authors.forename: Yan-Ru
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Dian-Gui
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Wan
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Qi-Guan
authors.initials: QG
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D020831:Acupuncture, Ear / Q000379:methods*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000378:metabolism / Q000628:therapy*; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000378:metabolism*; D012460:Sulfasalazine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000378:metabolism*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D012460:Sulfasalazine; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase