Randomized Controlled Trial of Acupuncture for Functional Dyspepsia

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

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."

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Criteria

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.