| Interventions |
Intervention 1: Intervention group: Patients in the intervention group receive acupuncture treatment twice a week for eight weeks and a total of 16 sessions. Each acupuncture session lasts about 30 minutes. The points include KID3(taixi), LIV3(taichong), ST25(tianshu), ST40(fenglong), ST36(zusanli), LI4(hegu), LI11(quchi), SP4(gongsun), SP6(sanyinjiao), SP9(yinlingchuan). ) , SP15(daheng) , BL18(ganshu) , BL20(pishu) , BL23(shenshu) , BL25(dachangshu) , PC6(neiguan) , HT7(shenmen) , CV4(guanyuan) , CV6(qihai) , CV9(shuifen) ), CV12(zhongwan), GV20(baihui), GV4(mingmen) with needles of size 0.25*40 and is inserted to the depth of deqi. Intervention 2: Control group: Patients in the control group, like the intervention group, receive 16 sham acupuncture sessions twice a week for eight weeks. Each session lasts about 30 minutes. The points with a distance from the acupuncture points in non-acupuncture point and non-meridian places are injected shallowly with the same number and size of needles as the intervention group. |