Acupuncture Reduces Relapse in Patients With Crohn's Disease: a Superiority Trial

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. patients who are recently pregnant or in pregnancy or lactation;
• •2. patients with serious organic diseases;
• •3. patients diagnosed as psychosis;
• •4. patients who suffer from multiple diseases and need to take other drugs for a long time, and may affect the observation of the efficacy of this trial;
• •5. severe skin diseases (such as erythema nodosum, pyoderma gangrenosum, etc.), eye diseases (such as iritis, uveitis, etc.), thromboembolic diseases and other serious extraintestinal manifestations;
• •6. there are serious intestinal fistula, abdominal abscess, intestinal stenosis and obstruction, perianal abscess, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, intestinal perforation and other complications;
• •7. patients with short bowel syndrome who have undergone abdominal or gastrointestinal surgery in the past half a year;
• •8. there are skin diseases or defects in the selected area of acupuncture and moxibustion that cannot be performed.