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Patients suffering from flat warts are often unsatisfied with conventional medical care because of adverse effects such as intolerable pain, hyperpigmentation, hypopigmentation, or occasionally allergic contact dermatitis. To offset the possibilities of hyperpigmentation, hypopigmentation, and scar formation, the method of auricular acupuncture was used.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods\u2002<\/jats:bold> Single\u2010blind method adopted, 60 subjects with flat warts were all outpatients and randomly allocated to a treatment group or a control group, with 30 patients in each group. Thirty subjects in the treatment group were treated with weekly auricular acupuncture for 10\u2003weeks while the other subjects in the control group were treated with 0.1% of tretinoin ointment topically for 10\u2003weeks.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results\u2002<\/jats:bold> Sixteen subjects in the treatment group (53.33%) recovered fully from flat warts without recurrence during the ensuing six\u2003months\u2019 follow\u2010up after 10\u2003weeks\u2019 surgery compared with only one subject in the control group (3.33%). The therapeutic effect of the treatment group was statistically better than that of the control group by Mann\u2013Whitney <jats:italic>U<\/jats:italic>\u2010test with SPSS software (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2003&lt;\u20030.01). During the treatment period and the ensuing six\u2003months\u2019 follow\u2010up, no adverse effects were observed by the investigators or reported by patients.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions\u2002<\/jats:bold> Our findings suggest that auricular acupuncture may be a viable alternative for the treatment of flat warts. 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