History and Mechanism for Treatment of Intracerebral Hemorrhage with Scalp Acupuncture

Table 3

Brief history of SA therapy for acute intracerebral hemorrhage.

Year	Author and/or work	Contribution
1980’s	Some study groups	Began to explore SA therapy for acute ICH.
1992	Dong et al. 1992 [25]	First clinical trial of the SA therapy for acute ICH.
1999	Li et al. 1999 [26]	A well-designed clinical trial to study the therapeutic effect of SA in treating acute ICH and its mechanisms.
2006	Zheng et al. 2006 [27]	A first review of this field entitled “Literature foundation of scalp-acupuncture treatment of ICH and its recent progress in clinical research”.
2009	Zheng 2009 [12]	To provide methodological reference for future mechanism study on stroke study using SA.
2010	Zheng et al. 2010 [13]	A first Meta-analysis of SA therapy for acute hypertensive ICH.

SA, Scalp Acupuncture. ICH, intracerebral hemorrhage.