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[Survey of point prescriptions of acupuncture treatment for urinary retention]
1First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin College of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China.
Objective:
To summarize characteristics of the point prescriptions for acupuncture treatment of urinary retention from 1994 to 2005.
Methods:
Review of literature was made from following five aspects: body acupuncture, scalp acupuncture, ear acupuncture, hand acupuncture and abdomen acupuncture. For the prescriptions of body acupuncture, further analysis was made on single point prescription, distal-proximal point association, superior-inferior point association, point selection according to syndrome differentiation and point selection according to disease differentiation.
Conclusion:
Acupuncture has affirmative therapeutic effect on urinary retention. However, there are still problems to be resolved in clinical researches at present.
