[Clinical application of acupuncture for treatment of heroin withdrawal syndrome].

Objective: To make technical standard of acupuncture manipulation for acupuncture treatment of heroin withdrawal syndrome.

Methods: Two hundred and twenty cases of heroin withdrawal syndrome were randomly divided into an acupuncture group of 111 cases and a control group of 109 cases. They were respectively treated with acupuncture and oral administration of lofexidine hydrochloride, and their therapeutic effects were observed.