Use of traditional methods in medicine for treating moderately severe bronchial asthma
Tarnuev, V.A.; Radzievskiĭ, S.A.; Kukes, V.G.; Semenova, L.G.
Voprosy Kurortologii Fizioterapii i Lechebnoi Fizicheskoi Kultury 1: 23-25
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8787 PMID: 11530403 Document Number: 536156
Minor therapeutic "cups" bloodletting, a variety of little known in Russia but conventional in China method, was compared in efficiency to chemotherapy, acupuncture and phytotherapy in allergic and non-allergic forms of bronchial asthma. The bloodletting alone or in combination with acupuncture and phytotherapy stabilizes the course of asthma and prevents asthmatic attacks, reduces routine doses of necessary broncholytics and glucocorticosteroids.