Randomized Controlled Trial of Treating Migraine With Acupuncture

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine480 enrolled

Overview

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."

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."

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

TRIPLE

Enrollment

480

Conditions

Migraine

Interventions

acupunctureOTHER

Subjects are treated five days a week continuously, and for four weeks.They are treated 30min every time.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 65 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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.

Locations (1)

Chengdu University of TCM

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

number of days with migraine

Time frame: 4 weeks

frequency of migraine attacks

Time frame: 4 weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Migraine-Specific Quality-of-Life Questionnaire

Time frame: a month

Transcranial Doppler Sonography

Time frame: a month

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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