Moxibustion Methods Research Articles

General survey on treatment of obesity with acupuncture

This paper statistically analyzes sixty-two articles concerning the treatment of obesity with acupuncture, and finds that the common therapy embraces needling, moxibustion, electroacupuncture, ear acupuncture, auricular application, auricular needle-embedding, acupoint application, acupoint embedding and combined methods of acupuncture. The frequent auricular acupoints are Stomach (MA-IC), Endocrine (MA-IC 3), Er Shenmen (MA-TF I), Lung (MA-IC 1), Spleen (MA-IC), Hunger Point (MA-T) and Sanjiao (MA-IC 4). The clinical total effective rate was 75.8%.

Clinical progress on moxibustion treatment of asthma

In the treatment of asthma, there are the commonly-used external therapies of scarring moxibustion, ginger-insulated moxibustion and acupoint herb-applying method, etc, with better clinical effects. But, strict recruitment standard was lacked and the designs of clinical studies were not complete in some reports. Therefore, the design of clinical study on moxibustion therapy and acupoint herb-applying method in the treatment of asthma needs to be strict and complete in the future studies.

Chinese Therapeutical Methods of Acupuncture and Moxibustion

Chinese Therapeutical Methods of Acupuncture and Moxibustion