Clinical Research on moxibustion in teating Crohn's disease

• Register: ChiCTR
• Last refreshed on: 18 April 2017
• Main ID: ChiCTR-TRC-10000950
• Date of registration: 2010-07-17
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Shanghai institute of acupuncture and meridians
• Public title: Clinical Research on moxibustion in teating Crohn's disease
• Scientific title: Research on the protection to colonic epithelial barrier function of Crohn's disease by moxibustion and its regulation mechanism
• Date of first enrolment: 2009-01-01
• Target sample size: A:30;B:30;
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=8588
• Study type: Interventional study
• Study design: Randomized parallel controlled trial
• Phase: New Treatment Measure Clinical Study

Countries of recruitment

China

Contacts

• Name: Chunhui Bao
• Affiliation: Shanghai institute of acupuncture and meridians

• Name: Yin Shi

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Diagnosed as Crohn's disease;
2. Mild or moderate CD patients (CDAI between 151 and 450);
3. Received no pharmacological therapy;
4. Willing to participate in the study and sign the informed consent.
Exclusion criteria: 1. Severe CD patients or remission patients;
2. Patients in a pregnancy or lactation;
3. Patients accompanied with some primary disease such as cerebral vessels diseases, liver or kidney disease and disorders of hematopoietic system etc which seriously affected life;
4. Patients with serious mental disorder such as Dementia praecox and epileptic;
5. Patients with other serious disorder.

Age minimum: 0
Age maximum: 0
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Crohn’s disease

Intervention(s)

A:Western medicine;B:moxibustion (acupuncture auxiliary);

Primary Outcome(s)

CDA;AHS;

Secondary Outcome(s)

CDEIS;IBD;

Source(s) of Monetary Support

National Natural Science Foundation