Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Liu, Xi-De
• Zhang, Jin-Lu
• Zheng, Han-Guang
• Liu, Feng-Yun
• Chen, Ying

Titel

Clinical randomized study of bee-sting therapy for rheumatoid arthritis

Ist Teil von

• Zhēncì yánjiū, 2008-06, Vol.33 (3), p.197

Ort / Verlag

China

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To observe the clinical effect of bee-sting (venom) therapy in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). One hundred RA patients were randomly divided into medication (control) group and bee-venom group, with 50 cases in each. Patients of control group were treated with oral administration of Methotrexate (MTX, 7.5 mg/w), Sulfasalazine (0.5 g,t. i.d.), Meloxicam (Mobic,7. 5 mg, b. i. d.); and those of bee-venom group treated with Bee-sting of Ashi-points and the above-mentioned Western medicines. Ashi-points were selected according to the position of RA and used as the main acupoints, supplemented with other acupoints according to syndrome differentiation. The treatment was given once every other day and all the treatments lasted for 3 months. Compared with pre-treatment, scores of joint swelling degree, joint activity, pain, and pressing pain, joint-swelling number, grasp force, 15 m-walking duration, morning stiff duration in bee-venom group and medication group were improved significantly (P<0.05, 0.01).