Exploration on formation of modern acupuncture-moxibustion education mode / 中国针灸

College education is the main mode of modern acupuncture-moxibustion talent training in China. In this paper, the acupuncture-moxibstion education modes in the early years after the founding of the Peoples' Republic of China, dominated as the Chinese medicine advanced school and the training course of Chinese medicine for the western medicine physicians, were collected as well as the transformation into normalized institution education ones. As a result, the formation and the improvement process of modern acupuncture-moxibustion education mode are reflected and their significance on the discipline development is explored.

Effects of reinforcing and reducing methods by twirling and rotating the needle on contents of CGRP and NO in rats with stress-induced hypertension / 中国针灸

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the different effects of reinforcing and reducing methods by twirling and rotating the needle on stress-induced hypertension and its mechanism.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Sixty male Wistar rats were randomly divided into a nomal group (group A), a model group (group B), an acupuncture control group (group C), an acupuncture with reinforcing method group (group D)and an acupuncture with reducing method group (group E), 12 rats in each group. The model of stress-induced hypertension was established by foot-shock and noise stimulation in the other groups except group A. Group C was treated by acupuncture at left "Taichong" (LR 3) with no manipulation, group D with twirling reinforcement method and group E with twirling reducing method at the same acupoint, respectively, and group A and B with no acupuncture treatment. The contents of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and nitrogen monoxidum (NO) in blood plasma and hypothalamus after 7 days were observed.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>After acupuncture treatment, the contents of CGRP in blood plasma and hypothalamus were (375.9 +/- 36.5) pg/mL and (213.6 +/- 50.1) pg/mg in group A, which were higher than (261.0 +/- 20.1) pg/mL and (156.0 +/- 21.8) pg/mg in group B , and (255.3 +/- 33.6) pg/mL and (154.3 +/- 47.3) pg/mg in group C (all P < 0.05), and (465.9 +/- 53.2) pg/mL and (250.74 +/- 47.7) pg/mg in group E higher than those in group C and (283.3 +/- 29.8) pg/mL and (164.6 +/- 47.4) pg/mg in group D (all P < 0.05), and there was no significant difference among group B, C and D (all P > 0.05). After acupuncture treatment, the contents of NO in blood plasma and hypothalamus were (43.7 +/- 5.5) micromol/L and (23.3 +/- 2.9) micromol/g in group B, (46.5 +/- 6.4) micromol/L and (23.1 +/- 3.3) micromol/g in group C, (45.8 +/- 6.7) micromol/L and (25.0 +/- 2.7) micromol/g in group D, which were all lower than (64.5 +/- 9.9) micromol/L and (30.7 +/- 1.6) micromol/g in group A (all P < 0.05), (55.9 +/- 4.6) micromol/L and (30.4 +/- 2.1) micromol/g in group E higher than those in group C and group D (all P < 0.05), and there was no significant difference among group B, C and D either (all P > 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Acupuncture with twirling reducing method can increase the contents of CGRP and NO in rats with stress-induced hypertension, thereby causing a fall in blood pressure, however, no significant influence with twirling reinforcing method. Reinforcing or reducing method by twirling and rotating the needle has different efficacy.</p>