Tandon M K, Soh P F, Wood A T
Thoracic Division, Repatriation General Hospital, Hollywood, WA.
Med J Aust. 1991 Mar 18;154(6):409-12.
The therapeutic effectiveness of classic Chinese acupuncture was compared with "placebo" acupuncture in 15 patients with stable bronchial asthma. The patients received treatments with real and placebo acupuncture in a randomly ordered, subject and evaluator-blind crossover fashion twice weekly for five weeks. Both real and placebo treatment periods were preceded by three week periods when no acupuncture was administered. Five patients felt better on real treatment, five patients preferred placebo and five did not feel any improvement on either of the two treatments. Treatment with real acupuncture when compared with no treatment and placebo treatment failed to provide any improvement in daily peak flow rates, asthma symptom scores, number of puffs of beta 2-agonist aerosol use, and pulmonary function results.
对15例稳定期支气管哮喘患者，比较了传统中医针灸与“安慰剂”针灸的治疗效果。患者以随机顺序、受试者和评估者双盲交叉方式接受真针灸和安慰剂针灸治疗，每周两次，共五周。在真治疗和安慰剂治疗期之前，均有三周未进行针灸治疗。5例患者在接受真治疗时感觉好转，5例患者更喜欢安慰剂，5例患者在两种治疗中均未感觉有任何改善。与不治疗和安慰剂治疗相比，真针灸治疗在每日最高呼气流量、哮喘症状评分、β2激动剂气雾剂使用次数以及肺功能结果方面均未带来任何改善。
