A Comparative Study on Dog-day Moxibustion and General Acupoint Application in Clinical Presentation of Allergic Rhinitis Patients

Objective:Compare and observe the improvement of the clinical signs and symptoms of the allergic rhinitis patients in the treatment of dogday moxibustion and general acupoint application.Methods:Choose sixty cases of allergic rhinitis patients and divide them into 2 groups according to the table of random numbers.30 of them are in the dogday moxibustion group(DDM group),and 30 of them are in the general acupoint application group(GAA group).The two groups were selected Zhang's moxibustion prescription,selected DU14,BL12,BL13 and other points.The DDM group from July 9th,2010,in the dog day during treatment;the GAA group from June 1st,2010,during the non-dog day moxibustion treatment.Patients in both groups were stuck for 10 days,5 times for a course of treatment.Before treatment,after treatment and after six months follow-up,by the ENT specialist on the basis of symptoms,signs,grading scoring criteria scale evaluation.Observe the improvement of their clinical presentation.Results:①Compared with the same group before treatment score,in addition to DDM group nasal mucosa color scores after treatment,as well as the symptoms of runny score in the follow-up six months after the previous differences(P0.05),the rest of scores were decreased(P0.01-0.05).Compared with the same group after treatment scores,only DDM group of patients with symptoms of nasal itching was increased(P0.05),the rest of scores were no difference(P0.05).②Compared with the GAA group,DDM group was clear nasal discharge symptoms after six months follow-up,the lower the score the amplitude was small(P0.01),others had no statistical difference(P0.05) Conclusion:For the improvement of the clinical manifestations of patients with allergic rhinitis,the general acupoint application and the clinical efficacy of the dogday moxibution are almost the same.Available at the time of the non-dogday of moxibution,including the acute phase of the disease,to promote zhang's moxibustion prescription so as to effectively improve the clinical manifestations.