[Treating type II diabetes mellitus with foot reflexotherapy]

32 cases of type II diabetes mellitus were randomly divided into two groups. One group was treated with conventional Western medicine hypoglycemic agent) plus foot reflexotherapy (FR), the other group with the same medicine only. After 30 days' treatment, fasting blood glucose levels, platelet aggregation, length and wet weight of the thrombus, senility symptom scores and serum lipid peroxide (LPO) were greatly reduced in FR group (P < 0.05-0.01), while no significant change was observed in the WM group. The study suggested that foot reflexotherapy was an effective treatment for type II diabetes mellitus.