The Effect of Acupuncture Stimulation on Sympathetic Skin Response, Sympathetic Flow Response, and Palmer Emotional Sweating Evoked by Electric Stimulation to the Forehead.
10.3777/jjsam.48.279
- VernacularTitle:ＳＳＲ・ＳＦＲ・精神性発汗反応の同時測定によるはり刺激の皮膚交感神経機能に及ぼす影響について
- Author:
Kenichi KIMURA
;
Tadashi YANO
;
Nobuyuki YAMADA
;
Kenji IMAI
;
Masaki HIRO
;
Ippei WATANABE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
sympathetic skin response (SSR);
sympathetic flow response (SFR);
Palmer emotional sweating;
function of skin sympathetic nerve system;
acupuncture
- From:Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
1998;48(3):279-291
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
The effect of acupuncture on the autonomic nervous system was analyzed by simultaneous measurement of sympathetic skin response (SSR), sympathetic flow response (SFR) and Palmer emotional sweating evoked with electric stimuli to the forehead at random interval and intensity. The mutual relation of measurements by those parameters was examined electrophysiologically.
The subjects were ten healthy male volunteers. SSR at the left palm and SFR at the fingertip of the left forefinger were measured using laser doppler flowmetry, and emotional sweating at teh right palm was measured with the ventilated capsule method (hydrography). The measurements were performed in two sessions, with and without acupuncture stimulation that was given at L14 with the technique of sparrow picking (1Hz) for 1 minute and retaining the needle for 10 minutes. The amplitude of SSR, the reduction rate of SFR, and the sweat rate were measured before and after acupuncture stimulation, while those were measured before and after resting in the other session as a control study. As a result, habituation in each response was not seen and the correlation coefficient in each index was low, while SSR and Palmar sweating were inhibited significantly in the stimulation group only, and SFR was inhibited in both groups.
These results suggested that acupuncture stimulation might inhibit the activity of the skin sympathetic nerve system.
