A Preliminary Analysis of the Efficacy and Prescription of Electro-acupuncture for Sepsis Treatment
- VernacularTitle:对电针治疗脓毒症的疗效和有效处方初探
- Author:
Mengyue FANG
1
;
Man LI
;
Chennan LI
;
Xianghong JING
;
Bin XU
;
Yan MA
;
Noiprasert SULUKKANA
;
Lingling YU
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- Keywords: Electroacupuncture; Sepsis; Sepsis complications; Curative effect; Rules of acupoints selection; Rules of prescriptions
- From: World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2024;26(7):1742-1748
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: A clinically serious illness with a high death and morbidity rate is sepsis.Electro-acupuncture is a significant adjuvant treatment for sepsis,lowering the inflammatory response to sepsis,regulating the patient's immunological function,and preventing multi-system organ damage.However,no comprehensive study has been published.In order to review the clinical application of electro-acupuncture in the field of sepsis and its complications,analyze its clinical efficacy,and summarize effective acupuncture point prescriptions,we systematically compiled the clinical research literature on electro-acupuncture in the treatment of sepsis and its complications by searching PubMed,CNKI,and other databases.It was found that effective clinical evidence had been gathered for the administration of electro-acupuncture in uncomplicated sepsis as well as in sepsis aggravated by gastrointestinal,pulmonary,cardiac,and brain injury.The following successful acupoint prescriptions were indicated:①Simple sepsis was treated with"Zusanli+Guanyuan"or"Zusanli+Tianshu+Shangjuxu+Xiajuxu";②Combined gastrointestinal injury was treated with"Zusanli+Shangjuxu+Tianshu"or"Zusanli+Tianshu+Shangjuxu+Xiajuxu";③ Combined lung injury was treated with"Zusanli+Chize";④Combined myocardial injury was treated with"Neiguan+Zusanli+Shenmen+Taichong+Xuehai+Geshu+Sanyinjiao+Hegu";⑤Combined brain injury was treated with"Baihui+Shuigou".The study's findings can offer preliminary clinical direction for using electro-acupuncture to treat sepsis and associated complications in patients.
