Sixty-four cases of scapulohumeral periarthritis treated by auricular plaster therapy.

All the 64 cases in this series were outpatients with their diagnosis made according to the Criteria of Diagnosis and Therapeutic Effects for TCM Syndromes (1999 Edition) stipulated by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Of them, 5 cases were at the age of 40-48 years, 52 cases 49-55 years, 7 cases 56-65 years. 38 cases were female and 26 male, ranging in course of disease from one week to two years. 36 cases had their right shoulder affected and 28 cases the left. According to TCM differentiation, 26 cases belonged to the wind-cold-damp pattern, 23 cases the qi-blood deficiency pattern, and 15 cases the qi-blood stagnation pattern.