Clinical observation on shallow needling for treatment of acute intracerebral hemorrhage / 中国针灸

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To approach to the best therapy for acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Eighty-five cases of acute ICH were randomly divided into a treatment group (n = 45) and a control group (n = 40). The control group were treated by routine Western medicine, and the treatment group by the medication plus shallow needling.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The total effective rate was 95.5% in the treatment group and 45.0% in the control group with a very significant difference between the two groups (P<0.01).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Shallow needling and the western medicine have cooperation with a better therapeutic effect in treatment of acute intracerebral hemorrhage.</p>