Treatment of hyperlipidemia by acupuncture and cupping method on back-shu points

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Feb 2005 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science, volume 3, pages 14-15 (issn: 1672-3597, eissn: 1993-0399,

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Authors: Zhu Wei;

doi: 10.1007/bf02900014

Treatment of hyperlipidemia by acupuncture and cupping method on back-shu points

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Xinshu (BL 15), Feishu (BL 13), Pishu (BL 20), Ganshu (BL 18), Shenshu (BL 23) and Geshu (BL 17) were selected and the needles were retained for 30 min. After the needles were taken out, cupping method was applied on each acupoint. In the treatment of total 36 cases of hyperlipidemia, the results showed remarkable effect in 22 cases, effect in 9 cases and failure in 5 cases, and the total effective rate in 86.1%.

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Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
China (People's Republic of)

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