Clinical Application and Development Status of Acupoint Injection Therapy
Objective To study and summarize the clinical application and development of acupoint injection therapy,and to pro-vide ideas and basis for clinical treatment.Methods CNKI,Wanfang,VIP and SinoMed databases were searched to extract the publication time and disease names of the included literatures,and conduct literature analysis.Results From the analysis of 4660 literatures included,the number of published papers in this field showed a decreasing trend year by year,and the largest number of published papers was in Guangdong Province.The first author institutions were concentrated in general hospitals and traditional Chinese medicine hospitals,among which Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine published the most papers.Research funds in this field accounted for 19.42%of the papers;Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion was the most cited jour-nal.Single-prescription Western medicine was the main drug for acupoint injection,and mecobalamine appeared most frequent-ly.Acupoint injection therapy involved 17 clinical subdepartments,including 287 kinds of diseases,a total of 22 suitable disea-ses,of which the top ten diseases were cervical spondylosis,hiccup,facial paralysis,lumbar disc herniation,diabetic peripheral neuropathy,urinary retention,cerebral palsy,vomiting,chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;In clinical application,there were no serious adverse reactions,and the safety was high.Conclusion Acupoint injection therapy has made great progress,but it is urgent to strengthen the promotion,education and capital investment in this field,pay attention to clinical application and mechanism research,formulate strict and standardized medication principles and treatment plans,and use acupoint injection ther-apy safely and rationally.At the same time,actively carry out multidisciplinary interaction to expand the application of acupoint injection.