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We have carried out a health developing project for three years at two flat rural areas in Ibaraki prefecture, O in Ushiku town and N in Iwai city, taking female farmers as the subjects.<BR>As a result, people in these areas obtained by developing reciprocal assistance a belief in selfsupport and knowledge of diseases, which lead to remarkable progress of their health such as improvement of nutrition and cosolidation of agricultural and life environment. Some observations in the study are discussed below.<BR>1) In the two areas, the number of people with no abnormality increased while those requiring care decreased, The number of people to be treated or under treatment was nearly unchanged, probably because of chronic deseases. No death and complication occured during the three years.<BR>2) Owing to the difference between O and N areas in the age structure of examinees, areal characteristics and types of agricultural products, the results of health examinations in these two areas were somewhat different.<BR>3) The health developing project will become more effective if male farmers participate together with the female farmers.<BR>4) Continuation of the health care activity in these areas will establish voluntary organizations of residents.
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In order to investigate the meridian phenomenon elicited by the stimulation on auricular acupuncture point, a patient, 58-year old, in whom marked meridian phenomena are observed on the body was selected as a subject.<br>The stimuli were ginen by means of a low frequency electrical stick method on the 210 auricular-points of the left ear.<br>The echo sensation to the remote district from the auriculo-points stimulated was observed in about 30% of the total points.<br>In 4.3%, the site to which echo sensation reached corresponded to the response organ that is expresed in the name of point. A point named “anesthetic point for tooth extraction” was one of the representatives.<br>The comfortable feeling over head, eyes, and whole body was also observed when stimulation was given to these points.
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We treated a patient (aged 57, a housewife, traumatic cervical syndrome), to be called a meridian sensitive patient, who displayed definite meridian phenomenon.<br>In the patient, a type of meridian phenomena, Phenomenon of Propagated Sensation along the Channels (PSC), was examined. Reffering the Nagahama and Maruyama's method and the method used in China, we employed a method whereby a pressure stimulus was applied with a press needle alternately to <i>the terminal point</i> on each of <i>the 12 regular meridians</i> as well as to a certain point on each of <i>the extra meridians</i>.<br>As a result, the following coincidence rates of PSC and the classical meridians were obtained:<br>20% <i>(the small intestine meridian, the posterior median extra meridian, the impetuous pulse</i> and <i>the extra meridian around the waist)</i> of all the 20 meridians were almost entirely coincident.<br>55% of all the meridians were partly coincident.<br>25% <i>(the spleen pancreas meridian, the heart meridian, the pericardium meridian, the lung meridian</i> and the <i>anterior midline meridian)</i> were not coincident.
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In the previous paper, we reported on the pathways of PSC and also upon the coincedent rates of PSC and the classical meridians.<br>In this paper, some remarkable observations on the PSC of the same patient are reported on: the echo sensation of PSC on <i>the posterior median extra meridian, the inn-ue extra meridian</i> and <i>the regular meridians</i>, excepting <i>the heart meridian</i>, reached to the head where the patient had her chief complaint. The farthest traveled echo sensation of PSC was on <i>the inn-ue extra meridian</i> and the broadest on <i>the kidney meridian, the bladder meridian</i> and <i>the yan-wei extra meridian</i>. PSC displayed body symetry and reproducibility. Fingerpressure applied at a point along the path of echo sensation served to interrupt the sensation over an area immediately following that point. The spatial length of PSC was enlarged by heating the area in question.