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[Modern documentary research on disease menu of acupuncture-moxibustion for mental and behavioral disorder]
You-Ping Hu1, Yong Chen, Lin Xing
1College of Acupuncture and Tuina Massage, Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu 610075, Sichuan Province, China.
Objective:
Dominant disease menu of mental and behavioral disorder of acupuncture therapy was summarized and obtained in this article.
Methods:
Literatures on clinical treatment of mental and behavioral disorder with acupuncture were picked up from CBMdisc and CNKI during 1978 to 2007. Types of mental and behavioral disorder and report frequency of each disease treated with acupuncture were counted. And dominant diseases which were favorable to be treated with acupuncture were acquired through analysis and inductive method.
Results:
Twenty-nine diseases of mental and behavioral disorder are favorable to be treated with acupuncture which were mentioned in totally 1967 related documents. It is found that the number of reports of sleep disorder, depression, hysteria aphronesia, dementia and sexual disorder are ranked as the top five.
Conclusion:
It is concluded that the preponderant diseases of mental and behavioral disorder treated by acupuncture are dementia, withdrawal syndrome, mental retardation, obsessive-compulsive disorder, sleep disorder, gastrointestinal neurosis (gastrointestinal disorders), depression, alcoholism and globus hystericus.
