Neural Mechanisms of Acupuncture for Functional Dyspepsia / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

Acupuncture, as one of the most distinctive traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment, had a wide range of advantages in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders with obvious clinical efficacy. The onset of functional dyspepsia had increased year by year. However, the exploration on mechanism was unclear and drug abuse showed poor clinical outcomes. Acupuncture can effectively improve gastric motility. Through a variety of ways to act on the gastrointestinal tract, gastrointestinal function was restored to improve a variety of symptoms in patients with functional dyspepsia, which provided scientific basis for the clinical selection and application of acupuncture in functional dyspepsia treatment. This paper summarized the acupuncture treatment mechanism of functional dyspepsia in recent ten years, in order to provide references for scientific basis in acupuncture treatment of functional dyspepsia. It also provided references for the development of reasonable treatment options in the clinical practice.