Effect of acupuncture combined with medicine on neuropeptide Y in the patient of hypertension / 中国针灸

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To search for a method for increasing therapeutic effect on hypertension and study on the mechanism.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Seventy-five cases were randomly divided into the treatment group (n=45) treated by acupuncture plus medicine, and the control group (n=30) treated by medicine. Their blood pressure and plasma neuropeptide Y (NPY) before and after treatment were investigated.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Blood pressure and NPY content in both the two groups decreased significantly (P < 0.01), and the treatment group in decreasing blood pressure and NPY content was superior to the control group (P < 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Acupuncture and medicine have cooperation in treatment of hypertension, which is performed possibly through decreasing NPY.</p>

Study on stroke syndrome of Chinese medicine and its relationship with blood hypercoagulative status and insulin resistance in diabetic ischemic stroke patients / 中国中西医结合杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the relationship of TCM Syndromes, involving Viscera Syndrome and involving Meridian Syndrome, with blood hypercoagulative state and insulin resistance in patients with diabetic ischemic stroke.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Insulin sensitivity index (ISI) could reflect the insulin resistance, and those reflecting blood hypercoagulative state parameters such as platelet agglutination test (PAgT), fibrinogen (FG), in vitro thrombus length (VTL) and activating partial thrombinogen time (APTT), were used to expound and prove the relationship with the stroke syndrome.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The symptom scores, PAgT, VTL, FG levels in patients involved with Viscera Syndromes (including those of Wind Syndrome, Phlegm-Dampness Syndrome, Heat-Fire Syndrome and Yin-deficiency with Yang-excess Syndrome) were significantly higher than those in patients involved with Meridian Syndromes (P < 0.05 or P < 0.01), while the ISI level in the former was lower than that in the latter (P < 0.01).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>There is close relationship between blood hypercoagulative state, insulin resistance and TCM Stroke Syndromes in patients with diabetic ischemic stroke.</p>