Ulcerative colitis or chronic nonspecific colitis is a chronic colitis

the cause of disease is unknown. Its characteristics are chronic repeated abdominal pain

diarrhea and protracted

hardly cured stool with pus

blood and mucous. The incidence of this disease shows a tendency to rise recently

and there is no an ideal therapy in Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. We treated this disease with moxibustion at Zusanli (ST 36 )

Shenshu(BL 23 )

Guanyuan(RN 4 )

and compared its effect with that of routine treatment of Western medicine

we found that the curative effect of moxibustion group was obviously better than that of medicine group.