Effect of Acupuncture on Quiescent Crohn's Disease

Study Purpose

To observe the clinical effect of acupuncture on quiescent Crohn's disease

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms	Yes
Study Type An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes. Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.	Interventional
Eligible Ages	16 Years - 70 Years
Gender	All

More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. aged 16-70; 2. Patients with disease in remission: CDAI <150 and at least one of the following: serum C-reactive protein <5mg/L, fecal calprotectin <50μg/g or no ulcers on endoscopy; 3. Patients with more than 2 disease relapses in the past year; 4. patients were not taking medication or were only taking one or more of the following drugs: [prednisone ≤15mg/d, azathioprine (≤1mg/kg/d), methotrexate (≤15mg/w) or mesalazine (≤4g/d)] and prednisone was used for at least 1 month, while azathioprine, methotrexate or mesalazine was used for at least 3 months; 5. those who did not use anti-TNF alpha and other agents within 3 months before entering the study; 6. those who have never experienced acupuncture; 7. patients signing informed consent.

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 take antibiotics, probiotics, traditional Chinese medicine and other drugs at the same time, or 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.

Trial Details

Trial ID: This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.	NCT04198831
Phase Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans. Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data. Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs. Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.	N/A
Lead Sponsor The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.	Shanghai Institute of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Meridian
Principal Investigator The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.	Huangan Wu, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator Affiliation	Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian
Agency Class Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.	Other
Overall Status	Recruiting
Countries	China
Conditions The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.	Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Crohn Disease

Additional Details

To observe the effect of acupuncture on maintaining remission of quiescent Crohn's disease

Arms & Interventions

Arms

Experimental: acupuncture group

Receiving acupuncture and moxibustion treatment

Sham Comparator: sham acupuncture group

Receiving sham acupuncture and sham moxibustion treatment

Interventions

Other: - acupuncture

Patients receiving acupuncture and mild moxibustion, whom were treated 3 times per week for 12 weeks and followed up for 36 weeks. Bilateral ST37, SP6, SP4, LR3, KI3, LI4 and LI11 were selected for acupuncture and CV8, CV12 and bilateral ST36 were selected for moxibustion. Hwato acupuncture device was used to blind the subjects, and had the deqi sensation. The surface temperature of acupoints was maintained at 43℃± 1℃ for moxibustion.

Other: - Sham acupuncture

Patients receiving sham acupuncture and sham mild moxibustion, whom were treated 3 times per week for 12 weeks and followed up for 36 weeks. Bilateral ST37, SP6, SP4, LR3, KI3, LI4 and LI11 were selected for acupuncture and CV8, CV12 and bilateral ST36 were selected for moxibustion. Same Hwato acupuncture device was used to blind the subjects, but do not puncturing into the skin and do not have the deqi sensation. The surface temperature of acupoints was maintained at 37℃± 1℃ for moxibustion.

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International Sites

Shanghai, China

Status

Recruiting

Address

Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian

Shanghai, , 200030

Site Contact

Chunhui Bao, MD, PhD

baochunhui789@126.com

+862164395973

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