Paz RMT, Ramos PK, del Llano HR, Villar BA,Sánchez PY

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: bronchial asthma is a respiratory disease with significant prevalence, and one of the main causes of hospitalization and acupuncture is a therapeutic may in natural and traditional medicine with multiple indications, among them this affection.
Objective: to determine the evolution of moderate-to-persistent asthmatic patients of both sexes before and after acupuncture treatment in the urgency service of Pinar del Río Abel Santamaría Cuadrado General Teaching Hospital.
Material and method: a prospective, longitudinal study of intervention was carried out using acupuncture as a therapeutic modality of natural and traditional medicine on patients attending the internal medicine emergency room at Pinar del Río Abel Santamaría Cuadrado General Teaching Hospital in the period from October to December 2013. The target group was composed by all the patients attending the service with bronchial asthma acute crisis (223) and the sample was of 83 patient classified as moderate-to-persistent asthmatic, using acupuncture in the point lung-7, spleen-cenception-17 and urinary bladder-13 to the study group (43 patients) and 42 with conventional treatment.
Results: on treating these patients, it has been evinced that 78.4% of them improved their health by application of this millenary method. None of them presented complications and only 11 of them did not improve their health.
Conclusions: the patients responded equally to the treatment with no distinction of sex or age, this method proving efficient, of easy application with onset of fewer adverse reactions and also economical.

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