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The paper explains academician
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Humans , Acupuncture , Acupuncture Points , Acupuncture Therapy , Antihypertensive Agents , Hypertension/therapyABSTRACT
This article is based on the possible common mechanism of pain and depression. Recent 10 years' reports on basic and clinical studies related to acupuncture treatment for pain and depression have been retrieved to explain that acupuncture can stop pain from many aspects to relieve depression. It is hoped that acupuncture can become a green and safe alternative therapy, reduce the toxic side-effects of drugs, and be popularized and applied to clinical treatment.
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Hypertension is one of main risk factors for the occurrence and death of stroke and coronary heart disease. Its prevalence rate is rising year by year. It severely threatens the health of the human beings. The acupuncture method of "activating blood and dispersing wind, harmonizing Gan-Pi" for treating hypertension launched by Academician SHI Xue-min has aroused great attention due to good cur- ative effect and less adverse reactions. In this paper principles of the circular motion covered by the acupuncture method of "activating blood and dispersing wind, harmonizing Gan-Pi" were clarified.
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Humans , Acupuncture , Acupuncture Therapy , Methods , Coronary Artery Disease , Hypertension , Therapeutics , Medicine, Chinese Traditional , Risk Factors , Stroke , WindABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To observe the effects of blood activating wind dissipating acupuncture (BAWDA) on blood pressure (BP) of prehypertension (PHT) patients.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Totally 60 PHT patients were assigned to the control group and the acupuncture group according to random digit table, 30 in each group. All patients were intervened by life style. BAWDA was additionally performed in patients in the acupuncture group for 6 weeks (30 times). The improvement of BP after intervened by acupuncture was observed. BP success rates and the proportion of PHT progressing to hypertension (HT) were also observed after 6-week intervention of acupuncture and at 1-year follow-up.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) decreased after 6-week intervention in the acupuncture. The BP control rate was 56.7% (17/30 cases) in the acupuncture group vs.10.0% (3/30 cases) in the control group with statistical difference (chi2 = 14.70, P < 0.01). At 1-year follow-up BP success rate was 36.7% (11/30 cases) in the acupuncture group, remarkably higher than that of the control group [13.3%, (4/30 cases)] (chi2 = 4.36, P < 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>BAWDA showed BP regulating roles in a gradually stable decreasing tendency. It also could elevate BP success rate of PHT, and reduce the risk of PHT progressing to HT.</p>
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Humans , Acupuncture , Methods , Acupuncture Therapy , Methods , Blood Pressure , Hypertension , Prehypertension , Therapeutics , WindABSTRACT
Dr. SHI Xue-min, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, has an unique treatment of hy pertension with acupuncture. Aiming at preventing damages of the target organs, improving the living quality of patients, and avoiding cardio-cerebral accidents, Dr. SHI set up his own methods to treat hypertension. Based on the theory of "sea of qi" and "mental regulation", he adopts Renying (ST 9) as the major acupoint, eliminating wind through activating blood circulation and regulating the function of liver and spleen are taken as the treating principles. Acupuncture manipulations are strictly regulated with clear criterions. Summarizations on pathological basis and clinical researches on hypertension treatment with acupuncture are carried out as well.
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Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Acupuncture Points , Acupuncture Therapy , Hypertension , TherapeuticsABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To observe the immediate effect and the long-term effect on blood pressure (BP) in acupuncture for hypertension.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Seventy cases of primary hypertension were acupunctured at Renying (ST 9), Hegu (LI 4), Taichong (LR 3), Quchi (LI 11) and Zusanli (ST 36) at 2:00-4:00 pm. BP was recorded before treatment and 5 min, 15 min and 30 min after acupuncture separately every day. The treatment was given for 5 days each week and stopped for 2 days. Totally, 3-month treatment was required. BP was compared at each time point with that before treatment separately on the same day, and made the comparison of it before the treatment every 15 days with that before acupuncture on the 1st day.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>On the same day, the systolic pressure at each time point after acupuncture was decreased as compared with that before acupuncture, indicating the statistically significant difference (all P < 0.05). The diastolic pressures at each time point on the 1st, 15th, 30th and 60th days of acupuncture were decreased as compared with that before acupuncture, indicating the statistically significant difference (all P < 0.05). In the 3-month treatment, the systolic pressure and diastolic pressure before treatment every 15 days were decreased as compared with that before the treatment on the 1st day (all P < 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Acupuncture can decrease the immediate BP and maintain the anti-hypertensive effect for primary hypertension so as to achieve the long-term stable anti-hypertensive effect.</p>
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Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Young Adult , Acupuncture Points , Acupuncture Therapy , Blood Pressure , Hypertension , TherapeuticsABSTRACT
Based on decades of research from Chinese ancient medical classics, with new understandings of the meridian differentiations, the academician SHI Xue-min made a further research on the original intention of the "syncope" of Miraculous) Pivot: Meridians. Furthermore, due to his clinical practice, the specific applications were summarized to guide the clinical treatment, such as the locations of acupoints and the techniques of acupuncture, which could be evidenced by favorable therapeutic improvements.
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Humans , Acupuncture Points , Acupuncture Therapy , History , Methods , China , History, Ancient , Medicine in Literature , MeridiansABSTRACT
Under the guidance of traditional acupuncture theory and modern medical knowledge, with long-term clinical practice, professor SHI Xue-min, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has made new recognitions on the concept of Shen (mind or vitality, a general term for life processes of the human body, referring to mentality, consciousness and thinking) and the brain, established the ideas of "Xingshen" (to cause resuscitation), "Tiaoshen" (to regulate the function of mental activity) and "Anshen" (to tranquilize the mind), promoted the application of the above ideas into acupuncture treatment on acute syndromes and intractable diseases, which is approved to have significant effect. The article dedicats to introduce professor SHI's experiences of using his idea of mental regulation with the combination of standard quantitative manipulations to treat acute, severe and intractable diseases such as stroke, central respiratory failure, angina pectoris, temporary syncope, pseudobular palsy, vascular dementia and dysuria.