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Clinical study on the wrist-ankle acupuncture treatment for 30 cases of diabetic peripheral neuritis
Hequn Jiang1, Kuande Shi, Xuemei Li
1Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the 47th Hospital of Chengdu Military Medical College of the Third Military Medical University, Chengdu 610500, China.
Objective:
To study the mechanisms of wrist-ankle acupuncture for prevention and treatment of diabetic peripheral neuritis.
Methods:
Ninety cases of diabetic peripheral neuritis were randomly divided into 3 groups, and treated respectively with wrist-ankle acupuncture, body-acupuncture, and the western routine medical treatment, with 30 cases in each of the groups; and therapeutic effects and laboratory results compared.
Results:
It is proved that the therapeutic effects of the wrist-ankle acupuncture group and body acupuncture group were significantly superior to those of the control group, with no significant differences between the former two groups.
Conclusion:
Wrist-ankle acupuncture has the actions of improving the metabolisms of blood sugar and blood-lipid, lowering down blood viscosity, and restoring the functions of peripheral nerve cells, thus giving definite therapeutic effects for diabetic peripheral neuritis.
