Author(s)

Zhou Xiaoru ¹, Liu Jing ¹, Xu Yaming ¹, Wang Ruihui ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xianyang, 712046, China

Corresponding Author

ABSTRACT

Acne is a kind of chronic inflammatory disease, which occurs in the hair follicle sebaceous gland. In clinical practice, it is often manifested by whitehead, blackhead, papule, pustule, etc. Serious acne can cause inflammatory plaques, even abscess infection, which affects the beauty of individual face. In the past five years, the progress of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of acne accelerated, acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of acne in different forms, this paper summarizes the progress of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of acne clinical research progress, from the acupuncture, buried thread therapy summary of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment of acne, clarify the effectiveness of various methods to treat acne.

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Zhou Xiaoru, Liu Jing, Xu Yaming, Wang Ruihui, Research progress of acupuncture treatment of acne in recent five years. MEDS Chinese Medicine (2024) Vol. 6: 155-161. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/medcm.2024.060421.

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