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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an incompletely reversible chronic airway disease that can be prevented and cured.There is a tendency toward increasing the morbidity and mortality for COPD.Establishment of an animal model for COPD is an important step to explore the pathogenesis of this disease.Presently,a well-recognized COPD animal model is not available.The key points for establishing the COPD animal models,such as selection of animal species,parameters for model evaluation,are constantly updated.
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Sixty cases of simple obesity of stomach-intestine excessive heat type were randomly divided into acupuncture-Tuina groupand single acupuncture group, 30 cases in each group, and were given acupuncture-Tuina and single acupuncture respectively. The clinical effects of two groups were analyzed and compared by obesity and fat indexes before and after treatment. The total effective rates in acupuncture-Tuina and simple acupuncture group were 90.0% and 73.3% respectively. The effect of acupuncture-Tuina in treating simple obesity with stomach-intestine excessive heat type was satisfactory, and better than that of acupuncture(P<0.05).
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Seventy-six athletes with acute lumbar sprain were treated by Tuina plus Acupuncture. First the acupoints of Bladder Meridian and Governor Vessel were Tuina to promote the recovery of lumbar muscles. Then Shuigou (GV 26), Weizhong (BL 40) and Fuyang (BL 59) were punctured. After 5 treatments, 46 cases were cured, 20 cases got remarkable effectiveness, 8 cases got effectiveness and 2 cases failed with the total effective rate of 97.4%.