Randomized Controlled Trial of Treating Migraine With Acupuncture

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Migraine

Treatments: Other: acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00599586

2006CB5045011 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to testify whether acupuncture is effective for migraine, and provide evidence for the hypothesis that"Acupuncture effect is based on meridians, and gathering of meridian Qi is the key point."

Full description

The purpose of the study is to testify whether acupuncture is effective for migraine, through treating migraine patients for a month, using different acupoints according to literatures of treating migraine with acupuncture, and try to provide clinical evidence for the hypothesis that"Acupuncture effect is based on meridians, and gathering of meridian Qi is the key point."

Enrollment: 480 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age of a subject is older than 18 and is younger than 65.(The subject is younger than 50 when he was ill for the first time.)
2. Consistent with the diagnostic criteria of Premonitory Migraine and Non- Premonitory Migraine.
3. Attacks of migraine are equal to or more than 2 times in the last three months.
4. With more than one year history of migraine
5. Informed consent is signed by a subject or his lineal relation.

Exclusion criteria

1. With serious protopathy or disease of cardiovascular, liver, renal,gastrointestinal, hematological systems and so on.
2. Psychotic，patients with allergic constitution or easily getting infected or bleeding.
3. Patients have used drugs for preventing migraine in the last four weeks.
4. Pregnant women or women in lactation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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480 participants in 4 patient groups

group 1

Experimental group

Description:

specific acupoints of Shaoyang meridians

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture

Group 2

Experimental group

Description:

Non-specific acupoints of Shaoyang meridians

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture

group 3

Experimental group

Description:

Acupoints of other meridians

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture

group 4

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Non-acupoints

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture