Ulcerative colitis or chronic nonspecific colitis is a chronic colitis its cause is unknown. Its characteristics are chronic repeated abdominal pain

diarrhea and delayed

hardly cured stool with pus

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

and there is not an idealtherapy in western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. This disease was not specifically

dealedwith in traditional Chinese medicine literature

but related with the description of diarrhea and dysentery. We treated this disease with moxibustion at Zusanli (S 36)

Shenshu (K 23 )

Guanyuan (R 4)

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

we found that the curativeeffect of moxibustion group was obviously better than that of medicine group