Hou Xiang (211 Hospital of PLA)
Bi Zheng covers a comparatively wide range of pain illness which includes primarily all rheumatic disorders in various parts of the body. Sufferers are quite numerous but data for objective diagnosis are lacking. The disease is best treated by acupuncture. This method has found wide application not only in our country but in other countries as well.
We made rheographic observations of patients suffering from this disease. Using a model XLJ-74-3 rheographic instrument, we placed a pair of 2.5 by 3.5 cm lamellar metal electrodes in juxtaposition with the extremities of the distributing channel regions on the forearm and the shank, and made graphic reproductions. The graphic patterns thus obtained reflect primarily the varying degree of the quantity of blood in the blood stream of the superficial tissues between the two electrodes in relation to the periodic variations of pulsation.
This method of testing is capable of being repeated. The graphic patterns obtained from repeated observations of the same patient during a three to five month period, retained certain basic characteristics. After treatment, and with the improvement of the patient's condition, the wave pattern gradually returned to normal. A normal graphic pattern included a ridge wave and a dicrotic wave.
Of the 100 cases being checked, all showed abnormal graphic patterns in the affected regions, mainly around the Sanjiao Channel, the Small Intestine Channel, the Gall Bladder Channel, the Urinary Bladder Channel and the Kidney Channel.
Of the 90 patients who experienced mainly pain, 37 cases showed low amplitude deviations, 7 cases showed stepwise increment or "Three Ridge" deviations, 36 cases showed a combination of low amplitude and stepwise increment deviations, and 10 cases showed high amplitude deviations, six among which were unmistakably accompanied by edema of the tissue; 10 cases showed mainly numbness and 7 cases a low amplitude wave pattern.
Thus it can be seen that all patients suffering from Bi Zheng showed changes resulting from blockings in the tissue blood supply brought about by local angioparesis or angiospasm.
Furthermore, the biophysical characteristics agreed with the pathological changes caused by the patient's blood deficiency or engorgement of a local nature causing the symptoms to arise therefrom.
From the above, we became initially aware that the setting on of the disease appears to be related to the occurrence of asynergy in the kinetic function of the blood vessels in corresponding tissues.
We made a random selection of patients suffering from Bi Zheng and, basing on the previous rheographic examinations, conducted needling together with electric, photic and medicinal treatment of the various affected parts along their respective acupuncture points, selecting such points as the "Yanglao", the "Waiguan", the "Fengshi", the "Yanglingquan", the "Weizhong" and the "Sanyinjiao". The result was that the majority of the patients effected a rapid recovery, and rheographic patterns returned to normal. Of the above mentioned 100 cases, 64% were healed and 31% showed marked progress.
As a contrast, an alternative group was selected of 100 cases of patients suffering from Bi Zheng. Traditional Chinese drugs were applied locally in conjunction with infrared ray treatment. Those that were healed numbered 14% and those that showed noticeable improvement, 28%. There is a marked difference in effectiveness between the two methods (P<0.05).
Bi Zheng covers a comparatively wide range of pain illness which includes primarily all rheumatic disorders in various parts of the body. Sufferers are quite numerous but data for objective diagnosis are lacking. The disease is best treated by acupuncture. This method has found wide application not only in our country but in other countries as well.
We made rheographic observations of patients suffering from this disease. Using a model XLJ-74-3 rheographic instrument, we placed a pair of 2.5 by 3.5 cm lamellar metal electrodes in juxtaposition with the extremities of the distributing channel regions on the forearm and the shank, and made graphic reproductions. The graphic patterns thus obtained reflect primarily the varying degree of the quantity of blood in the blood stream of the superficial tissues between the two electrodes in relation to the periodic variations of pulsation.
This method of testing is capable of being repeated. The graphic patterns obtained from repeated observations of the same patient during a three to five month period, retained certain basic characteristics. After treatment, and with the improvement of the patient's condition, the wave pattern gradually returned to normal. A normal graphic pattern included a ridge wave and a dicrotic wave.
Of the 100 cases being checked, all showed abnormal graphic patterns in the affected regions, mainly around the Sanjiao Channel, the Small Intestine Channel, the Gall Bladder Channel, the Urinary Bladder Channel and the Kidney Channel.
Of the 90 patients who experienced mainly pain, 37 cases showed low amplitude deviations, 7 cases showed stepwise increment or "Three Ridge" deviations, 36 cases showed a combination of low amplitude and stepwise increment deviations, and 10 cases showed high amplitude deviations, six among which were unmistakably accompanied by edema of the tissue; 10 cases showed mainly numbness and 7 cases a low amplitude wave pattern.
Thus it can be seen that all patients suffering from Bi Zheng showed changes resulting from blockings in the tissue blood supply brought about by local angioparesis or angiospasm.
Furthermore, the biophysical characteristics agreed with the pathological changes caused by the patient's blood deficiency or engorgement of a local nature causing the symptoms to arise therefrom.
From the above, we became initially aware that the setting on of the disease appears to be related to the occurrence of asynergy in the kinetic function of the blood vessels in corresponding tissues.
We made a random selection of patients suffering from Bi Zheng and, basing on the previous rheographic examinations, conducted needling together with electric, photic and medicinal treatment of the various affected parts along their respective acupuncture points, selecting such points as the "Yanglao", the "Waiguan", the "Fengshi", the "Yanglingquan", the "Weizhong" and the "Sanyinjiao". The result was that the majority of the patients effected a rapid recovery, and rheographic patterns returned to normal. Of the above mentioned 100 cases, 64% were healed and 31% showed marked progress.
As a contrast, an alternative group was selected of 100 cases of patients suffering from Bi Zheng. Traditional Chinese drugs were applied locally in conjunction with infrared ray treatment. Those that were healed numbered 14% and those that showed noticeable improvement, 28%. There is a marked difference in effectiveness between the two methods (P<0.05).
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