The Effect of Acupuncture with DPA Preadministration / 全日本鍼灸学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

Introduction<br>It is said that D-phenylalanine improves the pain relief effect of acupuncture on pain disease. We applied it to different kinds of pain disease as preadministration and studies the clinical effectiveness.<br>Method<br>Subjects were 24 patients suffering from such comparatively chronic pain diseases as prosopalgia (2), a pain in the posterior region of neck (5), frozen shoulder (4), coxalgia with melosalgia (10) and gonalgia (3).<br>A. The low frequency electrical acupuncture (3Hz, sub-successive wave, 20 minutes) was applied to them on the most frequently used points by the JSA Committee of Acupoints.<br>B. 0.5g of DPA was administered to each patient as preadministration and acupuncture was given.<br>C. Lactose was administered to all of the same patients as a placebo and acupuncture was given.<br>D. The therapy was repeated two times.<br>E. We evaluated the just after effect of the therapy on both groups with the double blind experiment.<br>Effect<br>The preadministration of DPA improved the effectiveness of acupuncture against such pain disease. From our study, it was clarified that the effectiveness of DPA rose by 30% in comparison with the placebo.