Research Advances in the Mechanism of Acupuncture and Moxibustuion Treatment for Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Herniation / 上海针灸杂志

ABSTRACT

By sorting out 2005-2015's literature on the mechanism of acupuncture and moxibustuion treatment for lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, this article concludes that the studies focused mainly on six aspects: improvement in nail fold microcirculation, improvement in neural ultrastructure, regulation of bodily autoimmunity, improvement in hemorheological indicators, regulation of neuroelectrophysiology and regulation of chemical neuroinflamma- tory mediators. A summary is made from the six aspects.