Treatment of acute mastitis with Tuina

Objective: To observe the clinical effect of treating acute mastitis with tuina manipulation. Method: Tuina manipulation was applied to treat 32 cases in the observation group, while external Jinhuang san was applied to treat 16 cases in the control group. Result: The total effective rate in the observation group was 96.8% and the total effective rate in the control group was 87.4%. The therapeutic effect of the two groups had significant difference (P<0.01) and the treatment period and times between the two groups had significant difference as well (P<0.01). Conclusion: Tuina manipulation had better effect for acute mastitis. FENG Yan-hua, vice Chief physician with Master degree of medicine, graduated in Tuina Department, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1988, and graduated in major of Trauma and Tuina of the same university in 1993 and learned from Prof. YAN Jun-tao. She has been doing medical treatment, teaching and scientific research for more than 10 years and published several papers and participated in writing several books. And clinically she is skilled at treating such discases as dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, acute mastitis, menopausal syndrome and post-delivery lower back pain. Translator: HAN chou-ping