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J Bischko

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PubMed1990

Bladder instability and enuresis treated by acupuncture and electro-therapeutics: early urodynamic observations.

The authors report the results of a study on 20 children suffering from a particular type of enuresis, associated with bladder instability, characterized by uninhibited contractions of the detrusor muscle. The children selected showed symptoms of enuresis, frequency, urinary urgency and a positive urodynamic test. This test was performed on 11 patients before and after acupuncture. In 16 out of 20 children, the authors observed a net increase in the intensity and frequency of uninhibited bladder contractions 30 minutes after acupuncture. At 60 minutes the contractions decreased and at 24 hours they had practically disappeared. Clinically, a gradual elimination of enuresis has been observed in 11 cases and an improvement in the other 7. From these early observations, the efficiency of acupuncture in suppressing uninhibited bladder contractions seems to be proved, even though the therapeutic mechanism has yet to be clarified.

Acupuncture Therapy↗
PubMed1976

[Clinical and experimental results with acupuncture-analgesia (author's transl)].

Operations under acupuncture analgesia have been performed in Vienna since March 1972. A total of 102 procedures has been performed with "classical" Chinese acupuncture analgesia. Additionally given analgesics, psychodynamic factors and neurophysiological components are of joint importance. Our success rate in these cases was 64 p.c. Since October 1972 we call "two-phase-acupuncture-analgesia". Up to June 1975 72 operations were performed under some modifications of this method. In a neurophysiological study 17 volunteers and in 2 patients undergoing stereothalamotomies depression or even disappearance of evoked potentials was be observed during acupuncture with alectrical stimulation. Thus an interaction between pain stimuli and acupuncture stimuli in the thalamus could for the first time be demonstrated in man.

Acupuncture Therapy↗
PubMed1975

Manipulation of neurotransmitters by acupuncture (?) (A preliminary communication).

Varying reactions of the vegetative nerve system to various point combinations (for example: vomiting, dizziness, diarrhea, urge to urinate, fatigue or drowsiness, headache), especially to the needling of Tai Chong (Li 3), induced us to perform biochemical studies before and after acupuncture treatment. A group of children and a group of adults were studied. The material studied was urine and blood; from the children, urine only. The following were determined in the urine: indolacetic acid, 5-hydroxy-indol-3-acetic acid, homovanillic acid, and vanillic-mandelic acid; in the blood, tyrosine and tryptophan (free and bound). Individual points with wide influence (He Gu = LI 4; Zu San Li = St 36; Tai Chong = Li 3) and their combination with generally effective points were tested. The needling of Tai Chong especially showed a clear increase in indolamine metabolism. Isolated increases in metabolites of catecholamine metabolism could be correlated with the patient's increased physical activity after acupuncture. Noteworthy is the observation that no significant chemical reactions were evident if local reactions to the needling no longer appeared at the end of a series of acupuncture treatments.

Acupuncture Therapy↗