Effect of Zuo's warming Yang acupuncture therapy combined with lifestyle interventions on prediabetes: A randomized controlled trial.

Background: Acupuncture has promising effects on diabetes, but there is limited evidence on prediabetes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect and safety of Zuo's warming Yang acupuncture therapy on prediabetic patients.

Methods: Fifty five individuals with prediabetes were recruited for the study.

A randomized controlled clinical study on Zuo's acupuncture treatment for prediabetes.

Introduction: Prediabetes is a high-risk stage of transition to type 2 diabetes mellitus. Previous studies suggest that acupuncture has potential to prevent prediabetes' conversion to type 2 diabetes mellitus, which lack of high-quality evidence. Zuo's acupuncture, a kind of acupuncture technique, is formed through long-term and repeated clinical practice by professor Zuo Changbo who integrates the internal meaning of Dong extra acupoints and Taoist medicine principle according to the theories of traditional Chinese medicine.

[Professor experience in treatment of dysmenorrhea with "three-regulation and one-harmonization" therapy of acupuncture].

The clinical experience of professor in treatment of dysmenorrhea with "three-regulation and one-harmonization" therapy of acupuncture was introduced. Professor invented a needling technique for "three-regulation and one-harmonization", meaning regulation, blood regulation and regulation of meridian tendon region as well as the spirit () harmonization. In regulation, the extreme fine needles are used to regulate movement of the whole function with the coordination of respiration and the corresponding acupoint prescriptions.