Treatment of 92 Allergic Rhinitis Patients by A Combination of Acupuncture and Medicine

Objective and MethodsTo investigate the efficacy of combined acupuncture and medicine for treating allergic rhinitis.MethodsAcupuncture, moxibustion, and nasal inhalation and oral administration of herbal medicine were used as a composite treatment for different constitutions. The relationships of the patient’s age syndrome type and disease duration to the curative effect were investigated. ResultsOf the treated 92 cases, marked effectiveness occurred in 68, effectiveness in 16 and ineffectiveness in 8, with a total efficacy rate of 91.3%. The curative effect was not good in the patients who belonged to the lung meridian dryness-heat type and had suffered from the disease for more than 20 years.ConclusionA combination of acupuncture and medicine has an exact effect on allergic rhinitis.