J Tradit Chin Med. 2000 Sep; 20(3): 202-5.

Clinical observations on 109 cases of vocal nodules treated with acupuncture and Chinese drugs.

Yang S.

Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang.

The treatment of vocal nodules with the combined use of needling on Kaiyin Yihao Xue [symbol: see text] Kai Yin Point No. 1 for Voice-Regaining) and medicinal spray and tea made according to Xie Qiang's empirical prescription, obtained a total effective rate of 93.6%, obviously superior to that of the group treated with western medicine and the group simply treated by Chinese drugs (P < 0.01). This suggests that the combined use of acupuncture and Chinese drugs in the treatment of vocal nodules has better therapeutic effect and requires shorter course of treatment.