J Tradit Chin Med. 2001 Jun; 21(2): 122-6.

An analysis of therapeutic effect of drug acupoint application in 209 cases of allergic asthma.

Lai X, Li Y, Fan Z, Zhang J, Liu B.

Guanzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, Guangdong Province 510407.

Both therapies of traditional crude herb moxibustion and drug acupoint application were used in 209 cases of allergic asthma to compare their long-term and short-term therapeutic effects and to analyze the relationship between clinic therapeutic effects of both therapies and differential types of the disease. The results showed that the short-term total effective rate in the group of drug acupoint application was higher than that in the group of traditional crude herb moxibustion, the therapeutic effects of drug acupoint application being closely related to differential types. Analysis also shows the best short-term therapeutic effect was in the type of heat in the lung while the poorest effect in the type of deficiency of the kidney-yang.