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KMID : 0363420150290020049
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Journal of Korean Oriental Pediatrics
2015 Volume.29 No. 2 p.49 ~ p.58
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A Literature Study of Oriental Medicine Therapy for Pediatric Asthma Mainly about Acupuncture and Acupoint Application in Pubmed
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Song Chang-Eun
Jee Hyun-Woo
Lee Hak-Kyeong
Sung Hyun-Kyung
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Abstract
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Objectives: Asthma is an allergic disease that frequently occurs in children. This study aims to research acupuncture and acupoint-application treatment of pediatric asthma.
Methods: We got 53,653 search results with searching word ’child’ ’children’ ’pediatric’ ’juvenile’ ’adolescence’ ’baby’ ’infant’ ’asthma’ in Pubmed and got 147 results among them with searching word ’acupuncture’ ’acupoint application’. We selected 13 articles among them which were seem to be related to this study. We classified these studies according to the type of study, the treatment methods and treatment outcomes.
Results: There were few studies about acupuncture and acupoint application on pediatric asthma. According to current research, conducting acupuncture and acupoint application treatment on pediatric asthma patient is recommended. Especially, acupoint application and laser acupuncture treatment were important to consider as treatment options on pediatric asthma patients for non-invasive way and less painful to children.
Conclusions: For the study on acupuncture and acupoint application treatment in pediatric asthma, it is necessary that we conduct research on various merit of acupuncture. More clinical data would be needed to prove the effects of acupuncture and acupoint application treatment in pediatric asthma.
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KEYWORD
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Pediatric asthma, Acupuncture, Acupoint-application treatment, Literature review
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