Randomized Controlled Trial of Treating Migraine With Acupuncture

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine1 site in 1 country480 target enrollmentNovember 2007

ConditionsMigraine

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Migraine
Sponsor: Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Enrollment: 480
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: number of days with migraine
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 15 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Sites Similar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

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."

Detailed 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."

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

November 2007

End Date

September 2009

Last Updated

15 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Study Design

Parallel

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

•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.)
•Consistent with the diagnostic criteria of Premonitory Migraine and Non- Premonitory Migraine.
•Attacks of migraine are equal to or more than 2 times in the last three months.
•With more than one year history of migraine
•Informed consent is signed by a subject or his lineal relation.

Exclusion Criteria

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