Effect of Acupuncture on Patients With Crohn's Disease in Remission

Inclusion Criteria:

1. aged 16-70;
2. patients in remission (CDAI < 150);
3. patients were not taking medication or were only taking one or more of the followingdrugs: [prednisone ≤15mg/d, azathioprine (≤1mg/kg/d), methotrexate (≤15mg/w) ormesalazine (≤4g/d)] and prednisone was used for at least 1 month, while azathioprine,methotrexate or mesalazine was used for at least 3 months;
4. those who did not use TNF alpha and other preparations within 3 months before enteringthe study;
5. those who have never experienced acupuncture;
6. 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 otherdrugs at the same time, or who suffer from multiple diseases and need to take otherdrugs 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.), eyediseases (such as iritis, uveitis, etc.), thromboembolic diseases and other seriousextraintestinal manifestations;
6. there are serious intestinal fistula, abdominal abscess, intestinal stenosis andobstruction, perianal abscess, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, intestinal perforation andother complications;
7. patients with short bowel syndrome who have undergone abdominal or gastrointestinalsurgery in the past half a year;
8. there are skin diseases or defects in the selected area of acupuncture and moxibustionthat cannot be performed.