Clinical Observation on Acupoint Application in Preventing and Treating Bronchial Asthma

Objective To observe the therapeutic efficacy of acupoint application in treating bronchial asthma under the concept of treating winter diseases in summer,and to discuss the relation between application time and therapeutic efficacy.Method A hundred patients with bronchial asthma were elected to receive acupoint application by selecting Feishu(BL13),Xinshu(BL15),and Geshu(BL17) since the first of the three periods of the hot season.Medicinal paste was made of Baijiezi(Semen Brassicae), Yanhusuo(Rhizoma Corydalis),Xixin(Herba Asari),and Bingpian(Borneolum Syntheticum).Application lasted 2～6 h each time, and was repeated once respectively 10 d later(the second of the three periods of the hot season) and 20 d later(the third of the three periods of the hot season).Before treatment and a year later after the treatment,quality of life,asthma symptom,remission duration time,attack frequency and attack duration tiem were observed,and the relation between application time and therapeutic efficacy was analyzed.Result The clinical total effective rate was 84%;after treatment,quality of life,asthma symptom,remission duration time,attack frequency all had significant improvements(P0.05,P0.01);attack duration time had insignificant improvement(P 0.05).According to the application time,the patients were divided into a group of 4 h(n=33),a group of =4 h(n=32),and a group of 4 h(n=35),and there were no significant differences between the three groups in comparing therapeutic efficacy(P0.05). Conclusion Acupoint application has precise therapeutic efficacy in treating bronchial asthma under the concept of treating winter diseases in summer,and the efficacy is not influenced by application duration time.