Research Progress of Acupuncture-moxibustion for Post-traumatic Brain Syndrome
10.13460/j.issn.1005-0957.2017.07.0881
- VernacularTitle:针灸治疗脑外伤后综合征的研究进展
- Author:
Dan PAN
;
Xianming LIN
- Keywords:
Acupuncture-moxibustion;
Brain damage;
Post-traumatic brain syndrome;
Action mechanism;
Review
- From:
Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
2017;36(7):881-885
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Post-traumatic brain syndrome is a common disease in neurosurgery department, referring to a variety of neurological symptoms after brain traumas. Currently, research shows that this disease involves the fields of neurologic anatomy, pathology, trauma mechanics, neurobiochemistry, cerebral hemodynamics, etc, and the treatment majorly includes medication, hyperbaric oxygen, and psychotherapy, but they don't work so well. In primary hospitals, the convenient, low-cost and safe acupuncture-moxibustion therapy should be paid more attention. By retrieving literatures during the latest 10 years, this article has concluded that the acupuncture-moxibustion treatments for this disease covered acupuncture, auricular acupoint therapy, bloodletting therapy, and moxibustion, and the action mechanisms were mostly the improvement of cerebral circulation and cerebral metabolism, and the change of neurotransmitters and cytokines. The improvement of cerebral circulation and increase of cerebral blood flow can be taken as the future direction in the research on acupuncture-moxibustion for this disease. However, in the treatment of post-traumatic brain syndrome with acupuncture-moxibustion, it still requires the standardization of acupuncture and the objectification of evaluation indexes.
