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L Roccia

Publications and source records attributed to L Roccia.

At least 37 records · Page 2Linked to original sources
PubMed1977

[Acupunctura, "vital" drugs and psychopharmacological agents in the treatment of psychiatric patients with deep depressive disorders, with considerations on the probable neurophysiological mechanisms of the synergism of action].

Personal clinical experience in 36 psychiatric patients with true or masqued depression, receiving a combined treatment of acupuncture (in traditional and auricolar suprarenalic points), "vital" drugs (DPA 300-900 mg/die; l-glutamine 250-500 mg/die) and psycho-drugs (amitryptiline 50 mg/die; clomipramine 10-30 mg/die; diazepam 2-20 mg/die; haloperidol 2 mg/die) is described. 35 out of 36 cases improved by such therapy. Possible synergic mechanisms leading to a considerable reduction of usual phychodrugs, and attenuating or eliminating various side effects are finally discussed.

Acupuncture Therapy↗
PubMed1977

[Study of cutaneous electrophysiology applicable to viscerocutaneous reflexes].

A description is given of the important part played by the skin as a site of electrical charges, as shown by the data offered by cutaneous electrophysiology. Personal research on 150 subjects is described. The results have useful applications in semeiotics and viscerocutaneous therapy. They also provice an explanation for the results achieved by acupuncture, a subject at present in the forefront of scientific investigation.

Acupuncture Therapy↗
PubMed1977

[Surgical analgesia by acupuncture. Studies of more than 500 cases].

This report was read to the National Congress of the Italian Anaesthesia Society in 1976. A personal series of acupuncture induced anaesthesia is presented and a number of general remarks are made regarding the application of the technique to various areas of surgery.

Acupuncture Therapy↗
PubMed1976

[Acupuncture and relaxation].

Relaxation and tranquility are commonly induced by acupuncture. Techniques are presented and neurophysiological theories underlying the therapeutic effect are discussed. Emphasis is laid on the importance of this effect in psychiatric management.

Acupuncture Therapy↗
PubMed1976

[Comparative evaluation of local 02 consumption in lumbar sympathetic infiltration as compared with acupuncture].

The effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of lower limb obliterating arteritis as an alternative to pharmacological sympatheticolumbar block was assessed by comparing local O2 consumption in the ischaemic extremity. It was found that both techniques lead to vasodilation sufficient to normalise local values. Acupuncture, however, has a more protracted effect up to 24 hr., as compared with only 12 hr after pharmacological block.

Acupuncture Therapy↗
PubMed1976

[Cranial acupuncture in the treatment of spasticity. Clinical results].

Hospitals in communist China perfected a new acupuncture technique about 3 yrs ago, whereby needles are placed in the scalp to stimulate the cortical centres below. This method is particularly indicated in subjects with neurological damage. Results observed in 45 subjects with cerebral vasculopathy at the neurological clinic of Pisa University and the reflexotherapy service of the University of Turin were encouraging and suggest that clinical experimentation should be attempted on a wider scale.

Acupuncture Therapy↗
PubMed1976

[Primary results of the reflexotherapy in the syndrome of irritable colon. Preliminary note5].

After stressing the uncertainties of classifying the syndrome exactly and the part played by psychosomatism in its aetiopathogenesis, some forms of acupuncture have been attempted as alternatives to psychodrugs and antispastic substances. 50 cases are examined in which diagnosis of irritable colon was confirmed by thorough clinical and laboratory examinations, use is also being made of appropriate computerizable tables.

Acupuncture Therapy↗