acupuncture in asthma

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Acupuncture therapy results in immediate

bronchodilating effect in asthma patients.

 

Chu KA, Wu YC, Ting YM, Wang HC, Lu JY.

 

Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal

Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital,

Kaohsiung, and National Yang-Ming University School of

Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

 

Background: According to previous data on asthma in

the English literature, there are some results that

show encouraging effects of acupuncture improving

pulmonary function in asthma patients. We designed a

prospective randomized crossover controlled study to

determine the efficacy of acupuncture in asthma

patients. Methods: Eighteen asthma patients with

bronchodilator response >20% improvement of forced

expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) were initially

randomly assigned to receive 1 performance of real

acupuncture (RA) or sham acupuncture (SA) in a blinded

manner. After a washout period, the patients were

crossed over. Spirometry was done and recorded before

and after acupuncture. Results: Sixteen of 18 patients

completed the study. The mean (+/-SD) FEV1 values

before and after RA were 1.52 +/- 0.45L and 1.67 +/-

0.40L, respectively (p < 0.001). The mean (+/-SD) FEV1

values before and after SA were 1.49 +/- 0.40L and

1.49 +/- 0.41L, respectively (p = 0.838, not

significant). The percentage change in FEV1 values

after RA was better than after SA (RA, 11.57 +/-

8.11%; SA, 0.32 +/- 7.76%; p = 0.003), while the

bronchodilator response of FEV1 from simple inhalation

bronchodilator was better than that for RA (p <

0.001). Conclusion: In asthma patients, acupuncture

treatment may result in immediate improvement of FEV1,

but the degree of improvement is less than that from

inhalation bronchodilator.

 

PMID: 17631461 [PubMed - in process]

 

 

 

 

 

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