Migraine
Conditions
Keywords
migraine, acupuncture, efficacy, safety, meridian, acupoint
Brief summary
The purpose of the study is to testify whether acupuncture is effective for migraine, and provide evidence for the hypothesis thatAcupuncture effect is based on meridians, and gathering of meridian Qi is the key point.
Detailed description
The purpose of the study is to testify whether acupuncture is effective for migraine, through treating migraine patients for a month, using different acupoints according to literatures of treating migraine with acupuncture, and try to provide clinical evidence for the hypothesis thatAcupuncture effect is based on meridians, and gathering of meridian Qi is the key point.
Interventions
OTHERacupuncture
Subjects are treated five days a week continuously, and for four weeks.They are treated 30min every time.
Sponsors
Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. Age of a subject is older than 18 and is younger than 65.(The subject is younger than 50 when he was ill for the first time.) 2. Consistent with the diagnostic criteria of Premonitory Migraine and Non- Premonitory Migraine. 3. Attacks of migraine are equal to or more than 2 times in the last three months. 4. With more than one year history of migraine 5. Informed consent is signed by a subject or his lineal relation.
Exclusion criteria
1. With serious protopathy or disease of cardiovascular, liver, renal,gastrointestinal, hematological systems and so on. 2. Psychotic，patients with allergic constitution or easily getting infected or bleeding. 3. Patients have used drugs for preventing migraine in the last four weeks. 4. Pregnant women or women in lactation.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| number of days with migraine | 4 weeks |
| frequency of migraine attacks | 4 weeks |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Migraine-Specific Quality-of-Life Questionnaire | a month |
| Transcranial Doppler Sonography | a month |
Countries
China
Outcome results
None listed