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===Alternative medicine===
A 2017 Cochrane review found low-certainty and low-quality evidence that [[acupuncture]] helps in hordeolum compared with antibiotics or warm compresses.<ref name="KCheng">{{cite journal |vauthors=Cheng K, Law A, Guo M, Wieldand LS, Shen X, Lao L |title= Acupuncture for acute hordeolum |journal=Cochrane Database Syst Rev |volume=2|pages= CD011075 |date=2017 |issue= 9 |pmid= 28181687|doi= 10.1002/14651858.CD011075.pub2 |pmc=5378315}}</ref> as well as that acupuncture plus conventional treatment may yield improvement, though they could not rule out placebo or observer effect, since the studies reviewed either had no positive control, were not blinded, or both.<ref name=KCheng/>