NCT00599586

Randomized Controlled Trial of Treating Migraine With Acupuncture

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 480 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to testify whether acupuncture is effective for migraine, and provide evidence for the hypothesis that"Acupuncture effect is based on meridians, and gathering of meridian Qi is the key point."

Detailed description

The purpose of the study is to testify whether acupuncture is effective for migraine, through treating migraine patients for a month, using different acupoints according to literatures of treating migraine with acupuncture, and try to provide clinical evidence for the hypothesis that"Acupuncture effect is based on meridians, and gathering of meridian Qi is the key point."

Conditions

• Migraine

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	acupuncture	Subjects are treated five days a week continuously, and for four weeks.They are treated 30min every time.

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-11-01
• Primary completion: 2009-09-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2008-01-24
• Last updated: 2010-06-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China