Clinical efficacy of combined skin acupuncture and external washing therapy of Zhuang nati

Clinical efficacy of combined skin acupuncture and external washing therapy of Zhuang nationality

medicine in the treatment of chronic eczema

Zu-Ling Jiang;An Huang;Gui-Yan Deng;Jing Xu;Jing Tang;Feng-Zhen Liang

【期刊名称】《传统医学研究（英文版）》

【年(卷),期】2018(003)005

【摘要】Objective: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of combined skin acupuncture and external washing therapy of Zhuang nationality medicine in the treatment of chronic eczema. Methods: One hundred and twenty patients with chronic eczema were randomly divided into an experimental group (60 cases) and a control group (60 cases). The experimental group was treated with skin acupuncture combined with external washing therapy, and the control group was treated with externally applied mometasone furoate cream. The patients' symptoms and total severity were scored and analyzed before and after the 4-week treatment. The symptoms scored included: erythema, papule/hard swelling, epidermal exfoliation, mossy lesion, exudation/scab, and pruritus. Clinical efficacy and adverse reactions were compared before and after the 4-week treatment. Results:Scores for the different kinds of skin derogation, pruritus symptoms, the eczema area, and severity index (EASI) were all reduced after the treatments. Pruritus symptoms and EASI scores in the experimental group were lower than those of the