Acupuncture for Treatment of Indefinite Complaints / 全日本鍼灸学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

The number of patients with indefinite complaints visiting acupunctural clinics have shown a steady increase in the past few years. A complicated social environment such as ours cause various stress related disorders. We describe in this report a patient with indefinite complaints who was treated by acupuncture. The patient was treated by two different modalities of acupunctural therapy. One was the Honji technique, which consisted of treatments based on signs and symptoms as described in Chinese medicine (shoh). The other consisted of Taikyoku therapy (basic meridian points for total body adjustment according to the Kurono style). Symptoms were ameliorated after these treatments. The “chart for indefinite complaints” formulated by the Indefinite Complaints Research Committee of the Japanese Acupuncture Society was used for objective assessment of the therapeutic results. Quantitative analysis of our findings showed that acupunctural treatment is effective in treating indefinite complaints. The “chart for indefinite complaints” indicated alterations in the “neurosis” and “depression” items in our patient.