Neural Mechanisms of Acupuncture for Functional Dyspepsia

VernacularTitle:针刺治疗功能性消化不良的神经生物学机理探析＊
Author: Kaiyue WANG ; Bin XU
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Acupuncture; central nerve; brain-gut peptides; autonomic nervous system; enteric nervous; functional dyspepsia
From: World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2015;(10):2145-2150
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Acupuncture, as one of the most distinctive traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment, had a wide range of advantages in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders with obvious clinical efficacy. The onset of functional dyspepsia had increased year by year. However, the exploration on mechanism was unclear and drug abuse showed poor clinical outcomes. Acupuncture can effectively improve gastric motility. Through a variety of ways to act on the gastrointestinal tract, gastrointestinal function was restored to improve a variety of symptoms in patients with functional dyspepsia, which provided scientific basis for the clinical selection and application of acupuncture in functional dyspepsia treatment. This paper summarized the acupuncture treatment mechanism of functional dyspepsia in recent ten years, in order to provide references for scientific basis in acupuncture treatment of functional dyspepsia. It also provided references for the development of reasonable treatment options in the clinical practice.