Chris Habib Level: basic
Chris is a naturopathic physician. Chris believes in promoting health and wellness in physical, mental and emotional level. He has a particular interest in the diet...
Acupuncture can effectively treat urticaria in more than 90% of cases, possibly by regulating the increased serum IgE levels that were found in this disorder. Studies investigating abdominal acupuncture when compared to cetirizine and acupuncture with point injection of thiamine in comparison to antihistamines showed a better therapeutic effect and a lower relapse rate with acupuncture. In studies of chronic urticaria, a reduction in the number of patients treated had three weeks with acupuncture and duration of episodes as compared to the placebo group.
The most common TCM diagnosis of urticaria is a pattern of wind in the skin, but prevails in acute urticaria wind heat. Wind is often deficiencies with stomach and spleen and humidity combined. The most commonly used acupuncture points are required: LI11 (Quchi), SP10 (Xuehai), SP6 (Sanyinjiao), and ST36 (Zusanli). The first three points are used to damp heat, delete while ST36 is used to tonify of qi and blood. In the study, the point injections, GB20 (Fengchi) was also used as it disperses wind. A recent study showed that subcutaneous needling on GV11 applied (Shendao) with a thick acupuncture needle for four hours a day can also reduce to improve symptom scores serum IgE and urticaria.
Finally that has shown "surround the Dragon" acupuncture technique that many skin conditions take effect. Needles subcutaneously into small intervals in 25-degree angles to the skin around the lesions for thirty minutes. Doctors can expect high success rates in the treatment of urticaria by using a combination of the above mentioned acupuncture treatments.
This article has 12 times displayed was.Article written on: 17 February 2011
