From: Optimizing acupuncture treatment for dry eye syndrome: a systematic review
First author | Year | Site | Sample sizea | Age | Gender (M/F) | Regime (intervention/control group) | Regime (frequency & duration) | Outcomes |
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Shin [26] | 2010 | Korea | 42 (21/21) | 41.6 | 11/31 | Intervention: manual acupuncture GV23, BL2, BL14, TE23, Ex-HN5, ST-1, GB20, SP3, LU9, LU10, HT8 Control: non-acupoints around same site | Needles were retained for 20 min, 3 times a week for a total of 9 times. It takes 3 weeks to complete the treatment. | BUT, SIT, VAS, OSDI |
Liu [27] | 2012 | China | 39 (20/19) | 32 | 21/19 | Intervention: electro-acupuncture with BL1, Ex-HN5, BL2, TE23, GB1, GB20, KI3, SP6, LR3 Control: Artificial tears | Everyday treatment group undergoes electroacupuncture for 30 min. For a total of 20 sessions. | SIT, BUT |
Guo [28] | 2013 | China | 47 (23/24) | 52 | 7/40 | Intervention: electro-acupuncture with shang-jingming (Ex), xia-jingming (Ex), GB1, BL2, GB20, LI4, SP6, KI3, LR3 Control: manual acupuncture with the same acupoints | Needles were retained for 20 min, 3 times a week for a total of 12 times. It takes 4 weeks to complete the treatment. | BUT, SIT, VAS |
Gao [29] | 2016 | China | 88 (44/44) | 41.8 | 33/55 | A: pyonex combined with acupuncture, SP6, ST36, PC6, LR3 are the main points, and pattern identification was done (BL13, LI4 OR BL20, ST40 OR BL18, BL23) B: manual acupuncture with GV20, ST1, BL2, GB20, Ex-HN5, TE23 | A: pyonex was embedded for 3 days. The follwing day, it was embedded again. This process was repeated four times and followed by two days free from embedment. After that, another four courses of embedment were conducted. B: needles were retained for 30 min every day for 12 days. Two days rest were followed by another 12 days of treatment. | SIT BUT, total score |
Wu [30] | 2016 | China | 40 (20/20) | 44.2 | 10/30 | Intervention: BL2, ST2, Ex-HN5 Control: artificial tears | Treatment group undergoes embedding therapy (retained for 24 h) on alternate days for 7 sessions. | BUT, SIT, OSDI |