Operating rules of cotton-pave moxibustion and its samples for clinical application in dermatopathy / 中国针灸

In clinical researches, the authors find that cotton-pave moxibustion has obvious effect for treatment of common dermatopathy, such as herpes zoster. This therapy has some advantages such as easy operation, obvious clinical effect, slight and short burning pain and easy to be accepted by patients. The purpose of this paper is to make the operation of cotton-pave moxibustion standardized, spread and popularize the application of this therapy in dermatopathy through detailed description to the operation method and points for attention of cotton-pave moxibustion and its typical cases.

Effects of moxibustion on erectile function and NO-cGMP pathway in diabetic rats with erectile dysfunction / 中国针灸

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the effect and the mechanism of moxibustion for treatment of diabetic erectile dysfunction (ED).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Diabetes mellitus (DM) rat model was induced by streptozotozin (STZ) and then penis erectile experiment of apomorphine (APO) was used to select diabetic ED rats model, which were divided into 2 groups: a model group and a moxibustion group, with another normal control group set up. The moxibustion group were treated with moxibustion at "Shenshu" (BL 23) and "Sanyinjiao" (SP 6) with small moxa cone about the size of a wheat grain. The effects on penis erectile, blood sugar and total NOS, cNOS, iNOS, and cGMP were investigated.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Moxibustion had a certain improving action on blood sugar, improved significantly erectile function, and more significantly increased NOS, cNOS, iNOS activities and cGMP contents in the penis.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Moxibustion has a certain action on the erectile function in the diabetic ED rats, which is related with improvement of blood sugar and promoting NO-cGMP pathway.</p>

Observation on clinical therapeutic effect of Yang's cotton moxibustion on neurodermatitis / 中国针灸

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To compare the difference of the therapeutic effects between Yang's cotton moxibustion and hormonotherapy on neurodermatitis.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Sixty cases of neurodermatitis were divided into a treatment group and a control group according to random number table. The treatment group were treated with Yang's cotton moxibustion and the control group with triamcinolone and urea cream. After treatment for one week, the therapeutic effect was start to be observed. After the treatment was given for 4 weeks, the therapeutic effect was evaluated.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The total effective rate was 93.3% in the treatment group and 80.0% in the control group, with a significant difference between the two groups (P < 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Yang's cotton moxibustion has an obvious therapeutic effect on neurodermatitis with a good safety.</p>

Discussion of some problems in the new centurial planning material the therapeutics of acupuncture and moxibustion / 中国针灸

Some problems were found for argument in the teaching of The Therapeutics of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, the new centurial national advanced Chinese medical school's planning material, including errors in compiling, some concepts lacking definition, and some acupuncture treatment methods in the material deviating off clinical practice, etc.. Study on these problems so as to make the teaching material more perfect, more scientific, accurate and authoritative.