Clinical analysis on treating myopia by traditional Chinese medicine steaming combined with auricular point sticking

Abstract:

AIM:To investigate the clinical effects of treating myopia by traditional Chinese medicine steaming combined with auricular point sticking in adolescents. METHODS:Totally 360 adolescents (656 eyes) were divided into two groups randomly. Both groups were given mydriatic refractometry. Patients in experimental group were treated by traditional Chinese medicine steaming combined with auricular point sticking for 4 weeks. The others were treated only by auricular point sticking for 4 weeks as control. Vision was checked by International Standard Logarithmic Visual Acuity Chart before and after treating. RESULTS:The efficiency of traditional Chinese medicine steaming combined with auricular point sticking was 53.9% and the efficiency of auricular point sticking was 33.3%(P<0.01). CONCLUSION:The curative effect of the experimental group is significantly higher than the control group and the efficiency decreases with the deepening of myopia.