ABSTRACT
The results of clinico-psychological examination of 121 patients have demonstrated that acupuncture is a fairly effective method of treating asthenic states in neurotic patients. Thus, considerable improvement and improvement has been observed in 67% of the patients. The absence of positive effect in the remaining cases is explained by an aggravated history, a stubborn course of the disease, and depletion of the functional activity of the sympathoadrenal system (SAS) and the adrenal cortex. Normalization of EEG rhythm is effected through activation of the synchronizing and inactivation of the desynchronizing cerebral systems; the positive dynamics of the structure of nocturnal sleep is reflected in an increased duration of slow sleep and rapid sleep which were initially reduced, in more regular alternation of the cycles and phases of sleep, and in a shorter period of falling asleep. Biochemical examinations have revealed activation of the mediatory component of the SAS and elevation of the function of the adrenal cortex, while baroalgesimetric studies have shown that acupuncture is characterized by antinociceptive and activizing effects. On the whole the efficacy of acupuncture in controlling asthenic conditions related to neuroses is due to its integral action.
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Acupuncture Therapy , Hysteria/complications , Neurasthenia/therapy , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/complications , Adult , Female , Humans , Hysteria/psychology , Male , Middle Aged , Neurasthenia/etiology , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/psychologyABSTRACT
The time-course of the structure of nocturnal sleep in normal subjects in conditions of a single sleep deprivation (acute sleep deprivation) and in neurotic patients with chronic sleep deprivation has been studied. The efficacy of acupuncture under different conditions is analyzed. The results obtained suggest a differential nature of the acupuncture effect in conditions of acute and chronic sleep deprivation. In acute sleep deprivation in normal subjects electrical acupuncture activates both synchronizing and desynchronizing mechanisms of the cerebral nonspecific systems. In chronic disturbances of sleep associated with neuroses acupuncture activates the synchronizing systems and inhibits the cerebral deactivating systems. Preventive acupuncture is recommended as a method increasing the activity of people working on night shifts (operators, traffic controllers, etc.).
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Acupuncture Therapy , Neurotic Disorders/complications , Sleep Deprivation , Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders/therapy , Adult , Electric Stimulation Therapy , Humans , Sleep Stages/physiologyABSTRACT
To alleviate neurological complications (extrapyramidal and hypothalamic syndromes, polyneuropathies and polyneuritis) associated with chronic alcoholism, 227 patients received different variants of acupuncture (classical acupuncture with needles, electropuncture, laser puncture). During the first three days, to control the abstinence syndrome, all patients received classical acupuncture. Further application of one or another method of acupuncture was determined by the degree of neurological complications. The treatment was most effective in a group of patients with polyneuropathies and polyneuritis, whereas patients with the hypothalamic syndrome proved poorly responsive to the treatment.
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Acupuncture Therapy/methods , Alcoholism/complications , Electric Stimulation Therapy , Laser Therapy , Nervous System Diseases/therapy , Adult , Basal Ganglia Diseases/therapy , Humans , Hypothalamic Diseases/therapy , Middle Aged , Nervous System Diseases/etiology , Peripheral Nervous System Diseases/therapy , SyndromeSubject(s)
Laser Therapy , Peripheral Nervous System Diseases/therapy , Polyneuropathies/therapy , Radiculopathy/therapy , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Cervical Vertebrae/innervation , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Lumbar Vertebrae/innervation , Male , Middle Aged , Trigeminal Neuralgia/therapyABSTRACT
Forty-one neurotic patients with pronounced depressive-hypochondriac symptomatology were treated by acupuncture. A decrease in the psychoemotional and algetic symptoms (sleep restoration, increased working capacity) following acupuncture was attended by certain changes in the nocturnal and diurnal EEG with the prevailing activation of the synchronizing mechanisms of nonspecific brain systems which suggests that the structures of the thalamo-cortical and nonspecific cerebral level are involved in the realization of the acupuncture therapeutic effect and that it is advisable to activate the synchronizing cerebral mechanisms.
