A Cinical Observation on Kidney-yang Deficiency Treated by Medicated Moxa Cake[J]. Acupuncture research, 1997, (3): 205-206.DOI:
温肾灸饼治疗肾阳虚证的临床观察
摘要
A medicated moxa cake was made of moxa wool combined with Chinese medicines of warming andstrengthening kidney-yang. 46 patients of kidney-yang deficiency were treated with the cake at thepoints Shenshu (BL 23)
Zusanli (ST 36)
Guanyuan(CV 4) and Zhishi (BL 52)
the other 32 patients were treated with ginger-separated moxibustion as control. The results showed that the cardinalsymptoms of kidney-yang deficiency were greatly improved after treatment with medicated moxibustion (P<0. 01). The markedly effective rate accounted for 81. 25 % and the total effective rate was93. 47 %
obviously higher than that of control group(P< 0. 05 )