Clinical Efficacy of Acupuncture with Plum Needle Acupuncture in Treating Tourette's Syndrome

Objective To compare the clinical efficacy and relapse rate of acupuncture with plum needle acupuncturing and Western medicine haloperidol in treating Tourette's syndrome.Methods 58 patients with Tourette's syndrome in total were randomly divided into a treatment group of 30 cases and a control group of 28 cases.The treatment group was treated by acupuncture to add a plum needle acupuncturing and the control group was treated by Western medicine haloperidol.One course of treatment consisted of 10 day,a total of 3 treatment courses were administered.The total efficacy and relapse rate were compared between the two groups before and after treatment.Results Of the treatment group,cure occurred in 16 cases,marked effectiveness in 7 cases,improvement in 5 cases and ineffectiveness in 2 cases,with a total efficiency rate of 93.3%,recrudesce 5 cases,relapse rate are 20%;of the control group,cure occurred in 1 case,marked effectiveness in 4 cases,improvement in 13 cases and ineffectiveness in 10 cases,with a total efficiency rate of 64.3%,recrudesce 13 cases,relapse rate were 72.2%.There was a statistically significant difference in the total efficacy and relapse rate between the two groups(P0.01).Conclusion The total efficacy rate was better in the treatment group than in the control group;the relapse rate was lower in the treatment group than in the control group.