Study of Key Electro-acupuncture Technique on Migraine

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Migraine

Treatments: Drug: flunarizine hydrochloride; Device: electro-acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02580968

643857003534

Details and patient eligibility

About

A random controlled trail to evaluate the efficacy of migraine standard electroacupuncture formula, and to analysis the regulation of the intensity-effects and to observe the peripheral NO, CGRP and NF-кB expression level of migraine patients after electroacupuncture treatment.

Full description

acupuncture group(group A): treated by acupuncture for 20 days, 1 time per day control group(group B): treated by FlunarizineHydrochloride for 20 days, 1 table per day.

Enrollment: 2 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• met the diagnostic criteria for migraine; suffering from migraine attacks; migraine attacks for more than 5 days per month, and lasts for 3 months; voluntarily join this study with informed consents.

Exclusion criteria

• other systemic, neurological and psychiatric disorders; headache caused by other diseases; not treatment compliance during the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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2 participants in 2 patient groups

electro-acupuncture

Experimental group

Description:

100hz, 2min. electro-acupoint: LI4(Large Intestine4) with LV3(Liver3).5times a week. lasting for 4 weeks.

Treatment:

Device: electro-acupuncture

routin medicine

Active Comparator group

Description:

one tablet of flunarizine hydrochloride tablet per day. lasting for 20days

Treatment:

Drug: flunarizine hydrochloride