[Clinically randomized controlled trials of moxibustion with salt in bamboo circle for treatment of periarthritis of shoulder].

Objective: To assess the clinical therapeutic effect of moxibustion with salt in bamboo circle on periarthritis of shoulder. METHODS Eighty-six cases were randomly divided into a salt-moxibustion group and an electroacupuncture group, 43 cases in each group. The salt-moxibustion group was treated by moxibustion with salt in bamboo circle on the part of obvious pain and hot compress moxibustion on its periphery.

[Observation on therapeutic effect of aponeurotic system penetration needling on peripheral facial paralysis].

Objective: To observe therapeutic effect of aponeurotic system penetration needling on peripheral facial paralysis.

Methods: One hundred and ten cases of peripheral facial paralysis were randomly divided into a Jingjin group (n=68) and a control group (n=42). The therapeutic effects of acute stage, resting stage and sequela stage, and the relation between the facial nerve lesion degree and the therapeutic effect were investigated.