title: [Meta analysis of acupuncture-moxibustion in treatment of irritable bowel syndrome].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of acupuncture-moxibustion in treatment of irritable bowel syndrome systematically.
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical randomized controlled trials on treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with acupuncture-moxibustion were collected. Through retrieval of CNKI (1979 - December of 2011) and VIP (1979- December of 2011), randomized and quasi-randomized controlled clinical trials on treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with control study between acupuncture and sham acupuncture or western medication were included. The test bias risk and quality assessment of each experiment were carried out by two researchers in accordance with the Cochrane Handbook 5.1.0 standard. And RevMan 5.1.6 software was adopted for the Meta analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eleven researches were included with totally 969 patients. Meta analysis shows that the effective rate of the combined methods of acupuncture and moxibustion [RR = 1. 27, 95% CI ( 1.09, 1.49)] is superior to conventional western medication treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Acupuncture-moxibustion for irritable bowel syndrome is better than the conventional western medication treatment.
authors.affiliation: Acupuncture and Rehabilitation Department, Jiangsu Province Hospital of TCM, Nanjing 210029, China.
authors.forename: Li-Xia
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Pei
authors.forename: Xin-Chang
authors.initials: XC
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jian-Hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Geng
authors.forename: Xiao-Liang
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006801:Humans; D043183:Irritable Bowel Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*; D009071:Moxibustion