163 Hospital of P.L.A. Zhuzhou First People's Hospital
100 cases of cardiac arrhythmias due to various causes had been treated with acupuncture. Among them 72 were male and 28 were female, 29 were younger than 40 years of age and 71 were older than 40, 84 were treated in O.P.D., while 16 were hospitalized. The criteria for therapeutic effect: Excellent--frequent or continous extrasystole, atrial fibrillation or tachycardia disappeared upon treatment or occurred only occasionally and did not recur in a period of more than 2 weeks; improved --symptoms ameliorated for more than 50%. Conduction disturbances were judged according to changes in EKG finding.
Main points selected for treatment were Xinshu, Jueyinshu of the Urinary Bladder Channel of Foot Taiyang, Shenzhu, Shendao, Zhiyang of Dumai (back medline). One pair of Shu points and one point in Dumai were used every day, 2-3 additive points were used according to symptoms.
After the needle got through the skin it was inserted to the point, and the patient had a feeling of soreness, numbness or distension, the handle of the needle was scraped with the tip of thumb and index fingers for 1-3 minutes, then the needle withdrawn. The acupuncture was performed once every day for 15-20 days. A resting period of 3-5 days was allowed between each course of treatment.
The clinical effective rate in 100 patients was 90% (excellent 31%), and was in effective in 10% of cases. Among the main symptoms, the effective rate was chest discomfort, 91%; palpitation, 90.4% and angina pectoris, 81.3%.
The total rate of EKG improvement was 46.8%, with excellent effect in 27.9%, and no effect in 53.2%. In different kinds of arrhythmias, the effective rate was 64.1% in 64 cases of aberrant impulse with excellent effect in 40.6%. In 47 cases of conduction disturbances, the clinical effective rate was 25.5%, with excellent effect in 10.6%. This implies that the point of acupuncture used and the way of manipulation of the needle had a better therapeutic effect toward aberrant impulses than conduction disturbances.
100 cases of cardiac arrhythmias due to various causes had been treated with acupuncture. Among them 72 were male and 28 were female, 29 were younger than 40 years of age and 71 were older than 40, 84 were treated in O.P.D., while 16 were hospitalized. The criteria for therapeutic effect: Excellent--frequent or continous extrasystole, atrial fibrillation or tachycardia disappeared upon treatment or occurred only occasionally and did not recur in a period of more than 2 weeks; improved --symptoms ameliorated for more than 50%. Conduction disturbances were judged according to changes in EKG finding.
Main points selected for treatment were Xinshu, Jueyinshu of the Urinary Bladder Channel of Foot Taiyang, Shenzhu, Shendao, Zhiyang of Dumai (back medline). One pair of Shu points and one point in Dumai were used every day, 2-3 additive points were used according to symptoms.
After the needle got through the skin it was inserted to the point, and the patient had a feeling of soreness, numbness or distension, the handle of the needle was scraped with the tip of thumb and index fingers for 1-3 minutes, then the needle withdrawn. The acupuncture was performed once every day for 15-20 days. A resting period of 3-5 days was allowed between each course of treatment.
The clinical effective rate in 100 patients was 90% (excellent 31%), and was in effective in 10% of cases. Among the main symptoms, the effective rate was chest discomfort, 91%; palpitation, 90.4% and angina pectoris, 81.3%.
The total rate of EKG improvement was 46.8%, with excellent effect in 27.9%, and no effect in 53.2%. In different kinds of arrhythmias, the effective rate was 64.1% in 64 cases of aberrant impulse with excellent effect in 40.6%. In 47 cases of conduction disturbances, the clinical effective rate was 25.5%, with excellent effect in 10.6%. This implies that the point of acupuncture used and the way of manipulation of the needle had a better therapeutic effect toward aberrant impulses than conduction disturbances.
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