None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Auricular acupuncture, one form of acupuncture, targets specific points on the auricle to treat various conditions. It was first reported in the mid-1950s by Nogier, but probably dates back to the Stone Age. Nogier hypothesized that all internal organs are represented in the external ear and found distinct measurable changes in the radial pulse of patients when certain points on the ear were stimulated. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of auricular acupuncture for flat warts and to demonstrate the proper application and effective technique of this method.
Interventions
weekly auricular acupuncture for 10 weeks on the ear vein located at the back of the ear, each weekly session lasts for about 1 hour
Sponsors
Suli Ning
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Primary purpose
Treatment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
8 Years to 50 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
patients aged 8 to 50 years; patients who met the clinical diagnostic criteria of flat warts; capability of providing written informed consent; and willingness and ability to comply with all procedures of the trial and attend all scheduled contacts at the investigational site.
Exclusion criteria
presence of concomitant diseases which included severe allergic disease, blood disease, acute or chronic contagious disease, abnormalities in the endocrine system and scar constitution; patients having accepted other relevant therapies that might influence the results of the present study; eruption of skin lesion recently with such concomitant symptoms as severe pruritus, deepening colour or the surrounding flushes of the skin lesion; patients who dropped out halfway.
Outcome results
None listed