[Clinical study on moxibustion for treatment of abnormal blood lipids].

OBJECTIVE: To observe clinical therapeutic effect of moxibustion on abnormal blood lipids. METHODS: The patients who did not take the medicine for regulating blood lipids and had still abnormal blood lipids after diet therapy for 3 months, were divided into 4 groups according to different types of abnormal blood lipids. Forty cases selected in each group were again divided randomly into a treatment group and a control group. The treatment group were treated with moxibustion at Shousanli (LI 10), Zusanli (ST 36) and Shenque (CV 3) on the basis of diet therapy, and the control group only with the diet therapy. Their therapeutic effects were observed and compared after treatment of 90 days. RESULTS: There were significant differences between the treatment group and the control group in various groups of different types of abnormal blood lipids (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Moxibustion at Shousanli (LI 10), Zusanli (ST 36) and Shenque (CV 3) has a better therapeutic effect on abnormal blood lipids.