Cooperative Group in Research of PSC, Fujian Province
Acupuncture anesthesia was originated from acupuncture relief of pain. Thus, it is of great significance to summarize the rich experience of acupuncture analgesia for further improvement of the effectiveness of acupuncture anesthesia as well as elucidation of its mechanism. In accordance with the generalization of clinical experience of traditional Chinese medicine, such as "selection of the acupuncture points along the channel related to the suffered region" and "promotion of 'qi' travelling to the affected region", the relation between PSC and the effectiveness of clinical acupuncture analgesia was investigated. 1106 patients suffering from pain in the head, neck or trunk were observed. Points below the elbow or knee joints of the related channel were chosen for acupuncture. The extent of PSC was graded in line with the distance which PSC did travel from the acupuncture point to the pain region.
Results show that surely there existed a close relation between PSC and effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia. The more striking the centripetal PSC, the better was the effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia. The distinct effect of acupuncture was achieved always when PSC did arrive at the pain region. As the effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia was compared between 345 cases with marked centripetal PSC (i.e. PSC travelled over half the course from acupuncture point to the pain region) and 492 cases without marked centripetal PSC (i.e. PSC travelled less than half the course mentioned above), the difference was highly significant (P<0.001). The effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia of the patients with centripetal PSC is more than that with centrifugal PSC. It shows that the direction of PSC is important. If cases were analysed statistically in groups according to pain regions such as head, neck and trunk, and cases of cholecystitis-cholelithiasis (112 cases) and acute sprain of lumbar region (192 cases) were counted separately, their differences were highly significant (P<0.01) too. It would be seen here that the relation between PSC and effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia may have universality, but it bears no relation with suffered regions or with the catergory of diseases.
The above results present that selection of acupuncture points along the related channels on the ground of "Bian-Zheng" ( i.e. discriminating the symptoms and signs on the theories of Chinese medicine) and striving for promotion of the PSC travelling toward the pain region will be an efficient manoeuvre to improve the effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia. It is worth while to study seriously.
Acupuncture anesthesia was originated from acupuncture relief of pain. Thus, it is of great significance to summarize the rich experience of acupuncture analgesia for further improvement of the effectiveness of acupuncture anesthesia as well as elucidation of its mechanism. In accordance with the generalization of clinical experience of traditional Chinese medicine, such as "selection of the acupuncture points along the channel related to the suffered region" and "promotion of 'qi' travelling to the affected region", the relation between PSC and the effectiveness of clinical acupuncture analgesia was investigated. 1106 patients suffering from pain in the head, neck or trunk were observed. Points below the elbow or knee joints of the related channel were chosen for acupuncture. The extent of PSC was graded in line with the distance which PSC did travel from the acupuncture point to the pain region.
Results show that surely there existed a close relation between PSC and effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia. The more striking the centripetal PSC, the better was the effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia. The distinct effect of acupuncture was achieved always when PSC did arrive at the pain region. As the effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia was compared between 345 cases with marked centripetal PSC (i.e. PSC travelled over half the course from acupuncture point to the pain region) and 492 cases without marked centripetal PSC (i.e. PSC travelled less than half the course mentioned above), the difference was highly significant (P<0.001). The effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia of the patients with centripetal PSC is more than that with centrifugal PSC. It shows that the direction of PSC is important. If cases were analysed statistically in groups according to pain regions such as head, neck and trunk, and cases of cholecystitis-cholelithiasis (112 cases) and acute sprain of lumbar region (192 cases) were counted separately, their differences were highly significant (P<0.01) too. It would be seen here that the relation between PSC and effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia may have universality, but it bears no relation with suffered regions or with the catergory of diseases.
The above results present that selection of acupuncture points along the related channels on the ground of "Bian-Zheng" ( i.e. discriminating the symptoms and signs on the theories of Chinese medicine) and striving for promotion of the PSC travelling toward the pain region will be an efficient manoeuvre to improve the effectiveness of acupuncture analgesia. It is worth while to study seriously.
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