Effect of auricular point sticking therapy on infantile amblyopia

ObjectiveTo compare the differences of effect on infantile amblyopia treated with auricular point sticking therapy and regular comprehensive therapy of western medicine.MethodsTwo hundreds and thirty cases of amblyopia patients were randomly divided into two groups, namely the group of auricular point sticking therapy, which had 120 cases (212 eyes), and the group of comprehensive therapy, which had 110 cases (194 eyes). The seed of Semen Vaccariae was applied at the ear point such as the eye, ear Shenmen, the liver, the spleen and the kidney. Regular comprehensive therapy of western medicine included covering method, vision corrected with glasses and fine exercise. Vision improvements of the two groups were observed with a three-year follow up.ResultsThe effective rates of the auricular point sticking therapy group and comprehensive therapy group of ametropic amblyopia were 81.0% (64/79) and 52.2% (36/69), respectively. The effective rates of anisometropic amblyopia of the two groups were 73.1% (49/67) and 47.7% (31/65), respectively. And the effective rates of the two groups of strabismic amblyopia were 71.2% (47/66) and 45.0% (27/60), respectively. The therapeutic effects of auricular point sticking therapy on all kinds of amblyopia were better than those of the comprehensive therapy (all P<0.05).ConclusionThe effect of auricular point sticking therapy on infantile amblyopia is better than that of regular comprehensive therapy of western medicine, which can obviously improve the vision of the patients with easy manipulations.