Research Progress of Different Acupuncture and Moxibustion Methods in the Treatment of GERD (Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease)

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By:Yamei Han, Xianbing Hou, Tie Wang

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30564/jams.v1i2.38

Abstract:

Over the past decade, there have been many clinical reports on acupuncture and moxibustion in the treatment of gastro esophageal reflux disease, which has been an increasing trend year by year. The authors use "acupuncture", "acupuncture and moxibustion" or "electric acupuncture" and "GERD" or "gastro esophageal reflux disease" as key words for retrieval. Through the clinical articles on acupuncture and moxibustion methods in the treatment of GERD indexed by China CNKI academic literature database, VPCS database and Wanfang database from 2006 to 2016, we find that: acupuncture and moxibustion methods in the treatment of GERD has definite curative effect and outstanding advantages. It can better improve the symptoms of patients and can effectively improve their quality of life. At present, in clinical applications, there are treatment ideas such as the method of acupuncture on governor vessel back segment, the old ten needles, and compatibility of five meridians in the aspect of acupoint selection; there are treatment ideas such as fire acupuncture, thread-embedding, and electric acupuncture in the aspect of method of needling and moxibustion; there are treatment ideas such as acupuncture and moxibustion combined with pinellia ternate Xiexin Decoction, Chinese herb bath, deanxit (flupentixol and melitracen tablets) in the aspect of acupuncture and medicinal treatment. This paper comb integration of the current variety of therapies, in order to allow readers to obtain a more comprehensive clinical diagnosis and treatment ideas of gastro esophageal reflux disease.

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