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PubMed1977

Trigger points and acupuncture points for pain: correlations and implications.

Trigger points associated with myofascial and visceral pains often lie within the areas of referred pain but many are located at a distance from them. Furthermore, brief, intense stimulation of trigger points frequently produces prolonged relief of pain. These properties of trigger points--their widespread distribution and the pain relief produced by stimulating them--resemble those of acupuncture points for the relief of pain. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between trigger points and acupuncture points for pain on the basis of two criteria: spatial distribution and the associated pain pattern. A remarkably high degree (71%) of correspondence was found. This close correlation suggests that trigger points and acupuncture points for pain, though discovered independently and labeled differently, represent the same phenomenon and can be explained in terms of the same underlying neural mechanisms. The mechanisms that play a role in the genesis of trigger points and possible underlying neural processes are discussed.

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PubMed1979

The effects of stimulation of ear acupuncture points on the body's pain threshold.

Six ear acupuncture points, one non-acupuncture ear point, and the body locus Ho-Ku (LI-4) were electrically stimulated in order to compare the effects of stimulation on the body's pain threshold at selected loci on various points on the body by measurement with a radiation heat-type Pain Meter on 5 subjects. The ear points, with the exception of the non-acupuncture ear point, were found to be effective even in peripheral body regions in varying degrees. Ear stimulation did not increase the threshold as rapidly as Ho-Ku. In all cases where the pain threshold was raised, the effect persisted after electrical stimulation had stopped.

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PubMed1992

Activation of the satiety center by auricular acupuncture point stimulation.

Stimulation of the rat inner auricular regions that correspond to the human pylorus, lung, trachea, stomach, esophagus, endocrine, and heart acupuncture points evoked potentials in the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus (HVM), the satiety center. Needle implantation into any of these points reduced the body weight to its initial 290 g after the rat had gained about 410 g in 20 days, and significantly reduced initial 450-g body weights (p less than 0.01, Student's t test) in 14 days. Stimulation of other acupuncture points did not evoke HVM potentials and did not reduce body weight. After the HVM was lesioned, body weight increased and acupuncture point needling had no effect on body weight. Needling of the auricular acupuncture points evoked no potentials in the lateral hypothalamus (LHA), the feeding center, and had almost no influence on weight reduction induced by LHA lesion.

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Laplace plane analysis of impedance between acupuncture points H-3 and H-4.

The frequency dependence of the skin impedance between two acupuncture points (H-3 and H-4) was determined by Laplace plane analysis of the time domain response to an input voltage perturbation. Both the resistance and capacitance between the acupuncture points differed significantly from the corresponding controls, thus supporting the interpretation of the acupuncture system as an information transfer network.

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PubMed1979

Acupuncture points and cutaneous nerves.

In view of the number of workers who have confirmed the presence of cutaneous nerves beneath acupuncture points, a plea is made not to dismiss them too lightly or hastily at this point in the search for the mechanisms of acupuncture.

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PubMed1992

[The use of low-energy lasers via action on the acupuncture points in inflammatory processes in the adnexa].

The paper deals with the effect of low-energy lasers in treating cases of subacute and chronic inflammatory processes of the adnexa through impact on biologically active points. The results in 30 patients treated with laser puncture have been observed and compared with the results in 30 women treated according to the classical methods. It has been found that the patients with subacute and chronic inflammatory processes treated with laser puncture spend in hospital 3 days less than the other patients and the pain symptoms disappear quickly. It can be concluded that the application of low-energy lasers through impact on biologically active points in subacute and chronic adnexitis can find its place in gynaecological practice.

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PubMed1975

[Macroscopic substratum of acupuncture points].

The dissection of supra-aponeurotic macroscopic elements underlying 201 acupuncture loci showed the following proportions: cerebrospinal nerve, 29%; vascular element (mostly venous), 34%; vascular and nervous pedicle, 37%. Thus there is no specific structure related to all the acupuncture loci, but a preferential distribution has been established according to the loci and their therapeutic indications.

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