How to standardize 3 finger positions of examiner for palpating radial pulses at wrist in traditional Chinese medicine.
This study was to provide a standardized definition of the positioning method of finger placement on the radial artery for pulse diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM); that is, to define the locations of Cun, Guan and Chi in TCM. A total of 200 subjects (100 males and 100 females, 18-40 years of age) were recruited from the general population. According to ancient TCM records, the "6% of the elbow length" (ELx6%) is used as the standard method of establishing the length of Cun. We hypothesized that the highest point of "prominent bone" (PB) is the lower limit of Cun, so "the distance between the distal wrist crea...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

Comparing the clinical effect of five varying locations of LI.4 acupoint.
Authors: Lu DP, Lu GP, Gabriel PL Abstract LI.4 is a major acupoint but the method of locating it has not been standardized. In fact, description of method for locating this acupoint often varies in the classic and traditional texts. It might signify this point may be varied from one to another person. Our comparative study of locating and subsequent acupuncturing these locations revealed some interesting features of LI.4 from our collected clinical data in that location 1 had a better therapeutic effect for toothache relief and analgesia-anesthesia effect than for headache relief, location 2 was better fo...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

The antipruritic effect of acupuncture on serotonin-evoked itch in rats.
Authors: Han JB, Kim CW, Sun B, Kim SK, Lee MG, Park DS, Min BI Abstract The antipruritic effect of acupuncture was studied using a rat model of hindlimb scratching. After acupuncture or electroacupuncture (EA), which was conducted for 30 min, itch-associated behavior was induced by an intradermal injection of 2% serotonin (20 microl) into the rostral back, and then numbers of scratching bouts were counted for 60 min. During the first experiment, acupuncture stimulations were applied to several different points. However acupuncture significantly reduced numbers of scratchings only when applied to cervical ...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

The role of the intensity of low frequency electroacupuncture stimulation on the modulation of capsaicin-induced edema in the rat paw. A blind controlled study.
Authors: Ceccherelli F, Gagliardi G, Casale R, Roveri A, Ori C Abstract Experimental animal and clinical human data suggest that electroacupuncture (EAP) reduces the release of substance P from sensitive neurons, both at medullar level and in the periphery. Aim of our study is to verify the effect of different intensities of stimulation on edema induced by subcutaneous administration of capsaicin. The study was performed on 72 male Sprague-Dawley rats divided into 4 experimental groups according to the intensity of electrostimulation (5, 10, 50, 70 mA) and a control group. A constant current electrical sti...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

Heat transfer involved in a warm (moxa-heated) needle treatment.
Authors: Huang VC, Sheu TW Abstract A numerical study was performed to reveal the temperature distributions in tissues around the GB38 acupoint during the warm (moxa-heated) needle treatment (WNT). The proposed WNT model involves a needle, needle handle and the calf section around the GB38 acupoint. For validating the numerical results, measurement using the calibrated infrared (IR) camera was also conducted. Our aim was to calculate the skin surface temperature and the temperatures under warm needle at different depths beneath the skin. From the temperature profile along the centerline of the acupuncture ...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

Randomized control trial of hand acupuncture for female stress urinary incontinence.
This study was designed to evaluate the effect of Hand acupuncture treatment on the stress urinary incontinence of 52 women randomly assigned to Experimental hand acupuncture treatment group (n = 25) and Control group (n = 27). 11 hand acupuncture points were established as a basic treatment formula. Among them, 5 points on the midline of the palm represent the major acupoints of external genitals, bladder, abdominal aorta, stomach and heart, while the other 6 points were applied as supplementary ones (2 points on the mid line of the palm for adrenal glands and heart, 2 points near the wrist for kidneys and 2 points on the...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

Organ representation areas of different internal organs localized on the eyebrows & eyelids by the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test electromagnetic resonance phenomenon between 2 identical molecules--Part I: Detection of increased markers for cancer & heart disease from white hairs on the eyebrows and marked decrease in the markers after taking one optimal dose of DHEA.
Organ representation areas of different internal organs localized on the eyebrows & eyelids by the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test electromagnetic resonance phenomenon between 2 identical molecules--Part I: Detection of increased markers for cancer & heart disease from white hairs on the eyebrows and marked decrease in the markers after taking one optimal dose of DHEA. Acupunct Electrother Res. 2008;33(3-4):193-224 Authors: Omura Y Abstract Organ representation areas of different internal organs were localized on the eyebrows for the first time in 2005 and localized on the surround...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

Neuronal specificity of needling acupoints at same meridian: a control functional magnetic resonance imaging study with electroacupuncture.
Authors: Zhang JH, Cao XD, Lie J, Tang WJ, Liu HQ, Fenga XY Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the neuronal specificity of needling acupoints at same meridian by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). The selected acupoints GB34 (Yanglinquan) and GB39 (Xuanzhong) were at the same gallbladder meridian based on traditional Chinese medicine. In our study we devise three distinct EA (electroacupuncture) manipulations: real EA (deep needling at acupoints), sham EA (deep needling at no-meridian points) and shallow EA (subcutaneous needling at acupoints). Twelve healthy volunteers with r...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

Immunohistochemical and electron microscopic study of the meridian-like system on the surface of internal organs of rats.
In conclusion, the meridian-like tissues are ducts with microchannels, which implies the circulatory function of the acupuncture meridian network. PMID: 18494381 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] (Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research)
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

The fundamental frequency of voice and its correlations with the five sounds of the traditional Chinese medicine.
Authors: de Barros FC, de Barros SE Abstract The Fundamental Frequency of Voice (F0) is one of the patterns of voice evaluation, where the sound of a prolonged vowel spoken is measured by a chromatic tuner, and the result is obtained in a musical tone. We investigated the correlations of the Fundamental Frequency of Voice and the 5 sounds of Traditional Chinese Medicine. We determined the tones corresponding to the sounds related in the ancient book "Ling Shu", which are Zhi (see text), Yu (see text), Gong (see text), Shang (see text) and Jue (see text), using the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test and histological sl...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

Treatment of intractable dry eyes: tear secretion increase and morphological changes of the lacrimal gland of rabbit after acupuncture.
Authors: Gong L, Sun X Abstract Research on the effect of acupuncture for tear secretion and morphological changes of the lacrimal gland. Acupuncture therapy was given on the rabbits of New Zealand origin. The needles were inserted into the following acupoints around the right eye: Extra 1 (Taiyang), BL 2 ( Zanzhu) and SJ 23 (Sizhukong). The Schirmer Test I (S1T, The Schirmer test is probably the most commonly performed method of measuring aqueous tear production) values pre and post acupuncture therapy were blindly recorded. The lacrimal glands of the normal lacrimal gland group were stained by Hematoxyli...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

Rapid screening and diagnosis of various cancers from human voice using Bi-Digital O-Ring Test resonance phenomenon between 2 identical substances i.e. between microscope slide of specific cancer tissue & cancer information in the sound of human voice, and detection of myocardial damage & infection from human voice.
Rapid screening and diagnosis of various cancers from human voice using Bi-Digital O-Ring Test resonance phenomenon between 2 identical substances i.e. between microscope slide of specific cancer tissue & cancer information in the sound of human voice, and detection of myocardial damage & infection from human voice. Acupunct Electrother Res. 2007;32(3-4):235-69 Authors: Omura Y Abstract Since 1982, the author has been successfully using Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (BDORT) electro-magnetic resonance phenomenon between 2 identical substances; i.e. between specific cancer (in vivo...
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Acupuncture of specific points influences cortical auditory evoked potentials--a volunteer crossover study.
Authors: Lietz P, Schmidt R, Hosemann W, Pavlovic D, Gizhko V, Lehmann C, Wendt M, Usichenko TI Abstract Specificity of acupoints remains a crucial question in acupuncture research. The aim was to investigate whether acupuncture of specific points influences the Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials (CAEP). Ten healthy volunteers were enrolled in this study according to inclusion criteria. One of 4 acupoints: TH3, GB43 (both claimed as specific for auditory system by Traditional Chinese Medicine) and non-specific points H7 and ST44, was stimulated during one session. Each volunteer received 4 sessions of acu...
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Effect of acupuncture given at the HT 7, ST 36, ST 40 and KI 3 acupoints on various parts of the brains of Alzheimer' s disease patients.
In this study, we explore various regions of the brains of Alzheimer' s Disease (AD) patients before and after acupuncture treatment of acupoints in the brain in order to determine the effect, if any, of acupuncture on AD. Twenty-six patients with clinically-diagnosed AD underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while undergoing acupuncture at the four acupoints of Shenmen (HT 7), Zusanli (ST 36), Fenglong (ST 40) and Taixi (KI 3). fMRI Block design paradigm was chosen by electroacupumcture interval stimulation, and the data of fMRI were analyzed by Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM 99). The result demonstra...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research

Electro-acupuncture improves survival and migration of transplanted neural stem cells in injured spinal cord in rats.
This study investigated whether electro-acupuncture (EA) would improve the survival and migration of neural stem cells (NSCs) transplanted in injured spinal cord as well as the potential mechanisms. T10 spinal cord segments of 50 adult Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were completely transected, and then NSCs were immediately transplanted into the transected site of the experimental animals, while control animals were sham operated without transplantation. Five days post-operation, electro-acupuncture treatment on GV9 (Zhiyang), GV6 (Jizhong), GV2 (Yaoshu) and GV1 (Changqiang) acupoints was applied for 14 days (EA+NSCs 14d) and 30...
Source: Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Acupunct Electrother Res Source Type: research