An interventional study of acupuncture in Acupuncture Manipulation, sponsored by China Medical University Hospital. Status unknown at 1 site in Taiwan. Open to participants aged 20 Years to 40 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2015-08-06.
Sponsored by China Medical University Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science
De-qi as an important factor to therapeutic effect of acupuncture for years, It's a concrete pathway to approach Qi, an abstract concept in Chinese medicine. However, all previous physicians and medical scientists have different interpretation to De-qi, and no objective principles for clinical practice, teaching and studies.
Qi propagated combined with acupuncture practice always be seen as De-qi , therefore, the study control "transmission or not" and "direction of sensation propagated" to compare what's different in human body. If the change happened as prediction based on acupuncture theories, it could define De-qi for operation.
The study will collect 60 subjects, from age 20 to 40, the same numbers of male and female. They will accept different manipulation in left hand HeGu(LI4), and assessed the variations in microcirculation, temperature of left forearm, and waxing/waning of yin-yang , Qi and blood in related meridian. We hope to understand if sensation propagated is primary factor of De-Qi and acupuncture effect .
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Exclusion Criteria:
acupuncture manipulation
Device: acupuncture
variation trend of electric conductivity
Time frame: 30-60seconds per trial
blood flow speed
Time frame: 30-60seconds per trial
EEG
Time frame: 30-60seconds per trial
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