Review on skin temperature of acupoints.
10.13703/j.0255-2930.2017.01.029
- Author:
Ziyi YANG
1
;
Mengyuan ZHOU
1
;
Xing WANG
1
;
Yunyun ZHAO
1
;
Zhifeng CHEN
1
;
Yi LAN
1
;
Tao XU
1
;
Yu ZHAO
2
;
Ling ZHAO
3
Author Information
1. College of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu 610075, Sichuan Province, China.
2. Preventive Treatment Center, Chengdu Integrated TCM and Wes-tern Medicine Hospital, Chengdu 610075, Sichuan Province, China.
3. College of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu 610075, Sichuan Province, China. ling94@163.com.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
acupoint sensitization;
acupoint specificity;
acupoints' skin temperature;
acupuncture and moxibustion
- From:
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
2017;37(1):109-114
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
We retrieve and analyze the articles on body surface temperature of acupoints in the recent 50 years. Surface temperatures have been compared between acupoints and nonacupoints, and among acupoints in different states. The impacts of interventions for acupoint temperature are explored, including acupuncture,moxibustion and cupping, etc. We summarize the features and the rules of acupoint skin temperature. It is considered that there exists distribution rule for healthy people's acupoint skin temperature. That means acupoints have higher surface temperature than nonacupoints. In the same meridian the nearer acupoints close to the head and trunk, the higher the temperature is. The difference in symmetrical acupoints temperatures between the left and right side is about 0.5℃. In the different meridians the skin temperatures of adjacent acpoints are similar. The changes of acupoint's skin temperature in illness can be used as the auxiliary diagnosis. Acupuncture, moxibustion and cupping can produce acupoints stimulating, metabolism improving,balance, acupoint temperature regulating. Thus,diseases are relieved. The specificity and regularity that acupoint's skin temperature presents may be one of the manifestations of the acupoint specificity, also it is an important starting point of the research on acupoint sensitization. The further studies should consider different diseases and modern biological engineering techniques, so that more rules of acupoints temperature can be found by more sensitive and objective temperature measurements as well as experimental and the mathematical models.
