Randomized Controlled Trial of Acupuncture for Functional Dyspepsia

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine720 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of the study is to testify the efficacy of treating functional dyspepsia with acupuncture, 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 functional dyspepsia, through treating functional dyspepsia patient for a month, using different acupoints according to literatures of treating migraine with acupuncture, and using Itopride as controlled group, 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

720

Conditions

Functional Dyspepsia

Interventions

acupunctureOTHER

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

ItoprideDRUG

Each pill weighs 50mg, once a pill, three times a day. The pills are taken half an hour before meals, and be taken 4 weeks continuously.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 65 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Consistent with the diagnostic criteria of functional dyspepsia. 2. Age of a subject is older than 18 and is younger than 65.（including 18 and 65） 3. Did not take any gastroenteric dynamic drugs in the last 15 days, and did not take part in any clinical trial. 4. Informed consent is signed by a subject or his lineal relation. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with any contraindications of Itopride. 2. Patients who are unconscious, psychotic. 3. Patients with aggravating tumor and other serious consumptive disease, and who are subject to infection and bleeding. 4. With serious protopathy or disease of cardiovascular, liver, renal, gastrointestinal, hematological systems and so on. 5. Pregnant women or women in lactation.

Locations (1)

Chengdu University of TCM

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Nepean Dyspepsia Index

Time frame: 4 weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Symptoms Index of Dyspepsia

Time frame: 4 weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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