Acupuncture at 7:00 a.m.-l1:00 a.m. division for treatment of stroke.
- Author:
Hui-ling ZHANG
1
;
Fen-mei ZHANG
;
Xi-feng FAN
;
Yi ZENG
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH: Acupuncture Therapy; methods; Aged; Female; Humans; Male; Medicine, Chinese Traditional; Middle Aged; Stroke; therapy; Time Factors
- From: Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion 2007;27(9):665-667
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVETo observe clinical therapeutic effect of the needling method of selecting time on stroke.
METHODSOne hundred and twenty cases of stroke were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, 60 cases in each group. The observation group were treated with acupuncture between 7:00-11:00 and the control group with acupuncture at any time. Their therapeutic effects, blood lipids and blood coagulation indexes were observed.
RESULTSThe cured-markedly effective rate and the total effective rate were 53.3% and 93.3% in the observation group, which were significantly higher than 35.0% and 78.3% in the control group, respectively; total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) significantly decreased and HDL-C significantly raised, fibrinogen (FG) significantly reduced in the observation group (all P < 0.01), the lipids regulating and anti-coagulation effects were significantly better than the control group (P < 0.05).
CONCLUSIONAcupuncture between 7:00-11:00 achieves significant effect on stroke through increasing the lipids-decreasing and anticoagulation effects.
