[Spectrum of ocular and adnexal disease treated with acupuncture].
Data studies are adopted to do systematic analysis on diseases described in theses on effect observation of acupuncture in Chinese Bio-Medical Literature and Retrieval System during 1978 to 2005. Numbers (frequency) of the disease mentioned are counted so as to analyze the acupuncture spectrum of ocular and adnexal diseases. The result indicates that the number of acupuncture spectrum of ocular and adnexal diseases is 31, which includes 22 diseases and 5 symptoms defined with western medicine as well as 4 syndromes of TCM. Thus, it can be concluded that ocular and adnexal disease is the one of the major component of acupuncture spectrums, and it is worth to popularize and apply that acupuncture for illness of this kind in clinic.
Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China.
Wei-Hong
WH
Liu
Yuan-Hao
YH
Du
D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D000291:Adnexal Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional