A systematic review and meta-analysis of acupoint autohemotherapy and western medicine therapy in treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Chushuan Huang; Chumin Chen; Rui Zhou; Yi Liang; Jiechun Zhang; Haidu Hong; Jianbo Liu

doi:10.1016/j.ctcp.2021.101336

A systematic review and meta-analysis of acupoint autohemotherapy and western medicine therapy in treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2021 May:43:101336. doi: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2021.101336. Epub 2021 Mar 11.

Authors

Chushuan Huang¹, Chumin Chen², Rui Zhou³, Yi Liang², Jiechun Zhang⁴, Haidu Hong⁵, Jianbo Liu²

Affiliations

¹ The First Afﬁliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address: 526040218@qq.com.
² The First Afﬁliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
³ The Second Clinical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
⁴ The First Clinical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
⁵ School of Basic Medical Science, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.

PMID: 33756218
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2021.101336

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of acupoint autohemotherapy（AA）.

Methods: We collected Controlled Trials that are random of AA plus medicine of the west therapy vs western medicine therapy alone in treating COPD from PubMed, the Cochrane library, EMBASE, CNKI, CBM SinoMed, China Science, and Wanfang Data from database inception to July 1, 2019. Meta-analysis was performed using the RevMan 5.3.

Results: This meta-analysis identified that the combined treatment could enhance the total effective clinical rate, the forced expiratory volume in 1 s（FEV1）and forced vital capacity（FVC），increase the 6-min walking distance，and improve the self-assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease score（CAT）.

Conclusion: The clinical effects of AA plus medicine of the west therapy are better than that of western medicine alone in treating COPD. However, due to the small number and poor quality of the included RCTs，this conclusion needs to be verified with larger samples and higher quality RCTs.

Keywords: AA (Acupoint autohemotherapy); COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease); Meta-analysis; RCT (Randomized controlled trial).

Publication types

Meta-Analysis
Review
Systematic Review

MeSH terms

Acupuncture Points*
China
Humans
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive* / drug therapy
Respiratory Function Tests