J Tradit Chin Med. 1999 Sep; 19(3): 214-7.

Treatment of epigastralgia by external application of huweigao at shenque point.

Ba Y, Xiang N, Tan Z, Zhang Y, Tan Y.

Affiliated Hospital, Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuchang.

140 cases of epigastralgia were divided into two groups at random. The 100 cases in the treatment group were treated with Huweigao externally applied at Shenque (Ren 8), and the 40 cases in the control group by oral administration of Weinaian capsule. After a one-month treatment, the total symptom-relieving rate and the gastroscopy-proved effective rate were 94.0% and 52.6% respectively in the treatment group, much superior to those in the control group.