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Microcirculatory effects of the application of an acupuncture needle (32-gauge, silver) to the back, corresponding to Geshu (B17) in human beings, were studied in vivo by microscope, using a transparent ear chamber in conscious rabbits. Although no striking findings were obtained during the needle application for a period of 30 minutes, it was clearly observed that the microvascular blood flow increases gradually in parallel with augmenting spontaneous rhythmic fluctuation of the vessel diameter, namely vasomotion, throughout a continuous observation period longer than 2 hours following release from the needle application. Diameters of arterioles and venules at the full-dilating phases of vasomotion reached levels higher than 200% and 250% of the initial values just before application of the needle, respectively. The clinical efficacy of acupuncture was suggested to be explained at least in part by the increased rhythmic microvascular blood flow in parallel with vasomotion, from the physiological point of view based on the previous investigations.
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Terapia por Acupuntura , Orelha Externa/irrigação sanguínea , Animais , Hemodinâmica , Masculino , Microcirculação , CoelhosRESUMO
A new method of performing Oriental diagnosis using Meridian Imbalance Diagram which, consisting of 23 different ratios, has a highly discriminatory significance. Using this method, Oriental and Western diagnosis in the same patients were compared. To do this we compared the Meridian Imbalance Diagrams of 22 patients entering our hospital for surgical operations with those 19 in a healthy control group. Four significantly different ratios became evident. The postoperative reports showed that 10 of the patients were suffering from stomach cancer. The Oriental diagnosis data of this new group were then compared to the data of the control group. This time, 10 ratios were found to be significantly different. This shows the existence of a pattern of Oriental diagnosis corresponding to a specific Western diagnosis.
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Medicina Tradicional do Leste Asiático , Nociceptores/fisiologia , Neoplasias Gástricas/diagnóstico , Limiar Diferencial , Humanos , Métodos , Úlcera Péptica/diagnóstico , Úlcera Gástrica/diagnósticoRESUMO
The author describes a series of experiments on the "microelectric phenomenon" and tires to give new scientific interpretations of acupuncture. Thus, the concept of "2-M-C" was developed, which may generate new hypotheses concerning the modus operandi of needle treatment.