[Effects of syndrome dependent umbilical sticking with shizhang cataplasm and xuzhang cataplasm in treating Cirrhosis caused ascites].

Unlabelled: To investigate the effects of Shizhang Cataplasm (SC) and Xuzhang Cataplasm (XC) in treating liver cirrhosis caused ascites of excessive syndrome (ES) type and deficient syndrome (DS) type respectively.

Methods: All the 77 patients (37 of ES type and 40 of DS type) enrolled were treated by conventional treatment but with restrictive use of diuretics. SC and XC were given respectively to 26 patients of ES type and 26 of DS type additionally by umbilical sticking, they were regarded as the treated group, and those (11 of ES type and 14 of DS type) not received the cataplasm treatment were regarded as the control group.