Observation on the curative effect of 120 cases of auditory hallucination treated with auricular acupuncture
Shi, Z.X.
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 9(3): 176-178
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0255-2922 PMID: 2615449 Document Number: 333593
Auditory hallucination often affects the thinking and emotion of the patients leading to dangerous behaviour of injuring themselves or others. We have treated auditory hallucination with different kinds of psychosis, mainly using auricular acupuncture and yielding certain curative effect. In our series, we found that there is no obvious correlation between number of attacks and the curative effect; however the duration of each attack may affect the curative effect. We also noticed that there is no significant difference in curative effects among the groups of simple auricular acupuncture, auricular plus body acupuncture and auricular acupuncture plus chlorpromazine. Therefore, we recommend auricular acupuncture for treating auditory hallucination.