Clinical Study About The Warm Needling Method Treating Cyst Or Protuberance Of Acne

Acne is a chronic and phlogistic skin disease of hair follicle and sebaceous gland, related to endocrinic function of sex gland. It has great influence on appearing and mind of people with those comedo, pimple, pustule, protuberance or cyst on the face, the chest and the back etc. Ache is not only the body disease. Its influence is nothing less serious than many diseases such as asthma, epilepsy, diabetes, arthritis etc. in many aspects such as sociality, psychology and sentiment. Patients who suffer from acne very easily come into depression, anxiety and angry. It is not a neglected somatopsychic disease that potentially influence patient's study, the work, the movement, the interpersonal relationship and the social life, and lead to decline in quality of life.Cyst or protuberance is mainly caused by toxic heat which could mutually congealing in the acne spot resulting to redness, swelling, hot, pain. Another reason is phlegm, coming from damp turbidity after a long period, and blood stasis obstructing in some part of the body that will form the tubercle. In all, the main cause and pathogenesis is stagnated phlegm, heat, and toxic blood stasis in the pathological process.Western medicine holds that, there is close relation between the cyst or protuberance and androgen, the blocked sebum overflow, bacterial infection, the hyperkeratosis of hair-follicle, microelement, biochemistry ingredient, heredity, as well as psychological factors and so on.In the foundation of consulting correlation literature research and the massive clinical medical records summary, 66 patients who suffered from cyst and tubercle were randomly assigned to the warm needling method group(the treatment group) and the simply acupuncture group(the comparison group). The ages, the sex and the process of disease of patients between two groups that were not obvious difference (P＞0.05) have the commeasurability.Main acupoints: Guanyuan, Qihai, Zusanli, Pishu, Shenshu. Other acupoints are matched according to the syndromes. The treatment group: After getting qi, added warm needling method on the main acupoints. One part each time , approximately 30 min. The comparison group: All was the same despite of the warm needling method. Manipulated the needles to stimulate qi every 10 minutes with tonifying therapy. Two groups were treated every other day, and 10 times was one treatment course. They had three treatment courses in all.Results are as follows:1. Both had obtained certain effects. After treatment, there was a significant difference (P＜0.05) in the reduction of acnes on face, showing that the warm needling method has more effects than the simply acupuncture.2. The research had discovered that comparing the improvement degree on tenderness, rubeosis, cyst and tubercle between two groups, there was a statistic significance (P＜0.05), showing that the warm needling method was more remarkable than the simply acupuncture in the improvement of acne.3. According to statistic analysis, there was a significant difference (P＜0.05) between two groups after treated in the inflammation improvement. The results had shown that the warm needling method was more superior than the simply acupuncture in the inflammation improvement.4. In the constitution aspect, symptom integrals of two groups had all obviously dropped (P＜0.01)after treatment when compared with the one of before. Moreover, there was a significance difference (P＜0.05). The results had shown that the warm needling method was more superio(?) than the simply acupuncture in improving the constitution.5. The recurring rate of treating group was obviously lower than the comparison group, so was the skin damages recurring.Conclusions:1.The simply acupuncture has great effect on reducing the skin damages on patients' faces and reducing the inflammation. But the warm needling method has more obvious, stable and lasting impact than the simply acupuncture in the aspects such as skin damages and acne recurring. 2. In the initial period, the skin damages reduced slowly because these two methods both improved the patients' constitution firstly. Because functions of the warm needling method was much bigger than the simply acupuncture in the aspect of improving the patient's constitution, symptom, cyst and tubercle after treated one or two treatment courses, the cyst and tubercle of the warm needling method group bursted more rapidly than the simply acupuncture group and the skin damages of warm needling method group reduce also quicker correspondingly. There was a remarkable difference between the curative effects and the treatment course of two groups. Moreover, the warm needling method also has the certain treatment function on the accompanying disease improving acne simultaneously.3. Functions of the warm needling method was bigger than the simply acupuncture in the aspect of improving the patients' constitution and symptom. Therefore the curative effect of the warm needling method were more stable and lasting than the simply acupuncture, and recurring rate of the warm needling group was obviously lower than the simply acupuncture group.4. This research has discovered moxibustion is not dry and heated, but is very temperate method of treatment. It could make acne to form pus and pathogene outlet. Regarding the hot symptom, this research applies moxibustion well clinically from the angle of acne.