A case of bronchial asthma improved by acupuncture therapy.
10.3777/jjsam.40.383
- VernacularTitle:気管支ぜん息に対するはり治療 発作が軽減した１症例
- Author:
Masaaki SHINOHARA
;
Norihiro YAMAUCHI
;
Hiroaki NOBUHARA
;
Toru SATO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Bronchial asthma;
Acupuncture;
Spirometry;
Prednisolone
- From:Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
1990;40(4):383-389
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
A 73 year old female, who had suffered from serious bronchial asthma and had been taking prednisolone and theophylline, was treated with acupuncture and herbal medicine. Twenty points, which are so called effective points for bronchial asthma, were used for acupuncture, e. g. LU 1: Zhongij, LU 2: Yunmen, and CV 22: Tiantu, etc. As Ryoudouraku mesurments showed suppression of F3 (Kidny Meridian) and F5 (Gallbladder Meridian), the exciting points on those meridians (KI 7: Fuliu and GB 43: Xiaxi) were also mildly stimulated by acupuncture. The severity of asthmatic attack, the strength of cough and the amount of sputum were expressed by a scoring system, where the most sever one which had been experienced before was scored as 10.
At the initiation of acupuncture, the frequency of asthmatic attack was 5 times a day, the severity of asthmatic attack was 6/10, the strength of cough was 6/10 and the amount of sputum was 8/10. Recently prednisolone was successfully reduced from 20mg to 7.5mg per day with acupuncture and the severity of asthmatic attack, the strength of cough and the amount of sputum were improved to 2/10, 1/10 and 3/10, respectively.
On the other hand, % FVC, FEV 1.0% and blood gas analysis data were not improved.
In summary, we believe that acupuncture acts beneficially to reduce the subjective symptoms of asthma even when the dose of prednisolone were decreased.
