The regularity of body surface temperature changes in acupuncture and moxibustion treatment
- VernacularTitle:鍼灸治療における全身の体表温度変化の規則性について －陰経と陽経の違い－
- Author:
Tomoko TAGUCHI
1
;
Masamichi NAKAMURA
2
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- Keywords: acupuncture＆moxibustion; acupuncture points temperature; linear regression analysis; regularity
- From:Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion 2024;74(2):75-83
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
- Abstract: [Objectives] The increase in skin temperature due to acupuncture treatment has been reported visually using thermography and other techniques. In this study, we measured the main acupuncture temperatures of the whole body before and after treatment, captured the characteristics of the correlation between pre- and post-treatment temperatures, and discussed the mechanism of cooling improvement. [Methods] Eight women who were aware of their coldness, who gave informed consent, were treated during a particularly cold season (December X to X+1 February). As a whole body treatment, five minutes of acupuncture was applied to CV12, ST25, and CV4 in the abdomen, BL10 and GB20 in the cervical region, BL17, BL18, BL20, and BL23 in the back, and BL40 and BL58 in the feet. Before and after treatment, the temperatures of the acupuncture points of the whole body (CV22, CV14, CV8, CV4, GB26, PC6, TE5, BL15, SP6, KI1, GV12, GV9, and GV4) were measured with a non-contact thermometer. Subsequently, for each acupuncture point, a graph plotting the temperature before and after treatment was created, and temperature changes before and after treatment were assessed by t-testing, and the presence or absence of attribute trends in pre-treatment acupuncture point temperature was assessed by linear regression analysis.[Results] For the abdomen, medial upper extremity, and medial lower extremity, transapical temperature increased significantly after treatment, uniformly independent of pre-treatment temperature. For the dorsal, lateral upper extremity, and lateral lower extremity, the acupuncture temperature did not rise uniformly after treatment; the lower pre-treatment temperature increased after treatment, but the higher pre-treatment temperature decreased after treatment. The temperature of the lateral abdomen and the soles of the feet increased significantly after treatment, and the degree of increase was greater in people with lower pre-treatment temperatures. And this balance of heat was found to promote blood flow to the tip of the foot.[Discussion] After the whole-body treatment as in this study, it is thought that by confirming the temperature measured before and after the treatment, in addition to the subject's subjective awareness of the warmth of his or her body, it is possible to convince the subject of the meaning of the treatment and to improve his or her main complaint. I thought it could be introduced as a method of examination.
