[The adaptive mechanisms of cardio- and angioprotective action of reflexotherapy].

The adaptive mechanisms of action of reflexotherapy are analysed. It was shown in physiological and biochemical experiments on the whole organism, the isolated hearts and strips of resistive arteries of animals that stimulation of acupuncture points by different physical factors increased the activity of opioid, antioxidative, and other stress-limiting systems, reduced secretion of corticosteron during stress, stimulated biosynthesis of stress proteins, induced cyto- and cardioprotective effects, prevented or limited functional and structural hyperadrenal damages. Clinical investigations demonstrated significant hypothensive, anti-ishemic and anti-arrhythmic effects of reflexotherapy, improved resistance of healthy subjects and patients with cardiovascular diseases to physical and emotional loadings.

[Reflexotherapy in the context of rehabilitative medicine].

The main stages of the history of reflexotheray and its principal methodological aspects are reviewed in the context of the introduction of this approach into rehabilitative medicine. Productive results of such integration find the demonstrative reflection in the defense of 56 theses for the degree of candidate of science and 28 ones for the degree of doctor of science devoted to various aspects of reflexotherapy. The growing tendency toward the more extensive application of non-pharmacological approaches to complementary medicine opens up new prospects for the further development of reflexotherapy in the context of modern health care practices.

[The application of trans-auricular low-frequency electrical puncture for the treatment of arterial hypertension].

Clinical studies involving 67 patients with arterial hypertension (AH) have demonstrated that a single course of trans-auricular low-frequency electrical puncture produced a marked stress-relieving effect that was manifested as the decreased anxiety level, normalization of neurohumoral regulation of arterial pressure and central hemodynamics, improved tolerance of controlled psycho-emotional loading, beneficial effect on cerebral blood circulation, lipid and electrolyte metabolism. In addition, the proposed therapeutic modality resulted in substantial reduction of arterial pressure. Taken together, these observations give reason to consider it as a promising tool for the treatment of patients presenting with arterial hypertension.

[Application of contrast thermopuncture for the treatment of dorsopathies].

The objective of this work was to study the possibility of replacing acupuncture variants of reflexotherapy of dorsopathies by non-invasive procedures, such as thermopuncture at biologically active points. Mechanisms of action of contrast thermopuncture were elucidated. Its clinical efficiency for the rehabilitative treatment of cervical and thoracic dorsopathies was demonstrated. It is concluded that many specific features of the method account for its advantages over classical acupuncture.

Effect of transauricular electroacupuncture on stress-induced changes in cognitive function and erosions of the gastric mucosa in rats.

Transauricular electroacupuncture prevented stress-induced increase in the degree of anxiety and suppression of exploratory activity in rats. This procedure significantly accelerated decision-making process during acute stress in both control and prestressed rats. Transauricular electroacupuncture decreased the number and area of erosions by producing a pronounced antistress effect at the central and peripheral levels.

[Use of traditional methods in medicine for treating moderately severe bronchial asthma]. / Primenenie metodov traditsionnoi meditsiny pri lechenii bronkhial'noi astmy srednetiazhelogo techneiia.

Minor therapeutic "cups" bloodletting, a variety of little known in Russia but conventional in China method, was compared in efficiency to chemotherapy, acupuncture and phytotherapy in allergic and non-allergic forms of bronchial asthma. The bloodletting alone or in combination with acupuncture and phytotherapy stabilizes the course of asthma and prevents asthmatic attacks, reduces routine doses of necessary broncholytics and glucocorticosteroids.

[The use of an electrosleep method for restoring the performance capacity and relieving the psychoemotional stress of athletes in cyclic sports]. / Primenenie metoda élektrosna dlia vosstanovleniia rabotosposobnosti i sniatiia psikhoémotsional'nogo napriazheniia u sportsmenov tsiklicheskogo vida sporta.

44 boat-racing sportsmen entered the study which aimed at elucidation of electric sleep action on restoration of muscular performance and relief of psychoemotional stress. The electric sleep procedures were found to stimulate regeneration processes, improve cardiovascular function and myocardial contractility, normalise arterial and capillary tonicity, to potentiate muscular performance and aerobic power of the body.

[The use of apparatus-supported physiotherapy for the accelerated recovery and enhancement of sports performance]. / Primenenie apparatnoi fizioterapii v tseliakh uskorennogo vosstanovleniia i povysheniia sportivnoi rabotosposobnosti.

The effects of physiotherapeutic factors such as electric sleep, sinusoidal modulated currents. UV radiation, interference currents, decimeter waves, laser radiation were studied in 600 sportsmen active in cyclic and acyclic sports. Recommended are both single and course procedures because the above factors are found to diminish immunodeficiency and to increase muscular performance in sportsmen.

[The dynamics of the cerebral circulation under the influence of laser therapy in patients with circulatory encephalopathy]. / Dinamika mozgovogo krovoobrashcheniia pod vliianiem lazeroterapii u bol'nykh s distsirkuliatornoi éntsefalopatiei.

The cerebral circulation was rheoencephalographically studied in 23 patients before the first session and after a course of pulse laser exposures at 80 Hz and at a wavelength of 0.89 microns. There was a positive dynamics in 42.9 and 56.1% of cases, as evidenced by rheoencephalography of the vertebral and internal carotid artery beds, respectively. Negative vascular responses were likely to occur as impaired intracranial venous circulation. Rheoencephalographic changes were found to be associated with the Doppler ultrasound findings of the capital great vessels and with neurological data.

[Experimental research on the physicochemical action of impulse currents when applied transcerebrally]. / Eksperimental'noe issledovanie fiziko-khimicheskogo deistviia impul'snykh tokov pri transtserebral'nom primenenii.

Thymocyte function and lipid peroxidation in cell membranes of the cerebral cortex and the myocardium of 72 rats were examined to study the stress-limiting mechanism of 10 and 1000 Hz impulse current effect. The additional measurements were as follows: rat and thymus weight, their proportional relations, thymocyte nuclear population, 11--OCS, thyroid hormones (T3, T4), plasma testosterone and insulin, myocardial and cerebral cortical protein. The animals were immobilized for 6 days in individual tight cages where they had food and water. Antioxidant and antistress effects of impulse currents were revealed at definite regimens of their application: 10 Hz stress limiting action was more potent when applied to stressed animals, but 1000 Hz current proved to be an effective prophylactic procedure.

[The differential use of electrosleep for restoring the work capacity of athletes]. / Differentsirovannoe primenenie élektrosna dlia vosstanovleniia rabotosposobnosti sportsmenov.

A comparative study has been made of the effects which might be produced on body functions of athletes by electric sleep. The induction of the sleep was conducted using square electric pulses with 10 and 100 Hz frequencies. The latter frequency (8-10 sleep procedures) stimulated the examinees somatically and psychologically, whereas electrotherapeutic sleep procedures at 10 Hz displayed sedative effects and thus were indicated for overstrained sportsmen and in some diseases.

[Brain bioelectrical activity in the victims of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station]. / Bioélektricheskaia aktivnost' mozga postradavshikh ot avarii na Chernobyl'skoi AES.

Visual and quantitative evaluation of EEG with the help of frequency analysis conducted in subjects exposed to radiation hazards after the Chernobyl accident revealed changes indicative of cerebral mesodiencephalic impairment. The subjects may have defect of compensatory-adaptive mechanisms of the brain provoking high excitability and stress-readiness. The authors believe that such subjects are in need of stress-limiting chemo- and physiotherapy.