The authors preliminarily analyze and compare influence of different stages of attack and remission, different syndrome types, and age of the patient, duration of illness, state of illness on the
therapeutic effects of acupuncture and
moxibustion for treatment of
bronchial asthma by analysis and summarization of 381 clinical papers about acupuncture and
moxibustion treatment of
bronchial asthma. It is found that most studies hold that acupuncture has better
therapeutic effect on
asthma at acute stage, and
moxibustion has a better effect at the remission stage. Acupuncture and
moxibustion have a better effect on cold
asthma than hot
asthma, and the shorter the course of disease and the younger, the better the effect, conversely, the effect is worse. Mild
asthma is the main indication of acupuncture and
moxibustion, but considerable more clinical studies show that above factors have no obvious influence on the
therapeutic effect, even show contrary to this result. It is indicated that in the studies from now on, only strictly design and fully consider the effects of various factors, can scientifically reveal various disease factors influencing
therapeutic effect of acupuncture and
moxibustion on
bronchial asthma, and expound the indications of different acupuncture and
moxibustion methods for treatment of
bronchial asthma.