Clinical Observation of Acupoint Thread-Embedding Therapy for Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Objective:To evaluate the effects of acupoint thread-embedding therapy for stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD)though determining the T-cell subsets and scores in TCM symptoms.Methods:Forty stable COPD patientswere randomly divided into two groups:20patients in treatmentgroup were treated with acupoint thread-embedding therapy and conventional medicine,while 20cases in control group were treated with conventional medicine alone.The course of the treatments are tow months.Scores in TCM symptoms and the T-cell subsets were determined after the treatments on both two groups to conpare whether the indexes have differences in statistics.Results: Both groups had satisfactory scores in TCM symptoms and the treatment group had better sores than the control group(P0.05),In the aspects of cough,sputum and chest stuffiness,the patients in the treatment group recovered better than the ones in the control group(P0.05).After the treatment,the levels of CD3,CD4,CD4/CD8 in the peripheral blood of patients in the contral group were significantly increased and were batter than the same indexs of patients in the control group.Conclusion:Integrated treatment of acupoint thread-embedding and conventional medicine may improve the symptoms of cough and chest stuffiness,adjust mmunity function of stable COPD patients and increase life quality.