Patients suffering from tinnitus complain of various discomforts such as impatience, insomnia and stiffness in the shoulders and the neck. It is thought that the ear itself and a general disorder of the whole body can cause tinnitus and the more it is a chronic disease, the more it will be intractable.
From June 1979 through July 1981 inclusive, 103 patients having tinnitus as a chief complaint were given acupuncture.
We classified and analyzed them by such distinction of sex, age, the duration of this complaint, an underlying disease, its signs with a chief complaint and the relation with blood pressure.
The effectiveness of acupuncture amounted to 50.4% (effective and very effective=24.2%, comparatively effective=26.2%).
The deafness and the abnormality of blood pressure did not relate with the effect of acupuncture. The comparatively newly suffered tinnitus was more curable than the old. Concerning the therapy and the effect, it was found that we were able to use a course of acupuncture (1-10 times) as a check to see if we would make them better.
There were patients who showed a good effect just after acupuncture and also had especiall stiffness in the shoulders and the neck with an indefinite complaint. It was an efficacious cure for tinnitus and an indefinite complaint that we gave them a general treatment with common points of the ears.

Aim: AS stated in the past reports that approx, 75% of hralthy adulte have experienced it, headache is a symptom often experienced in the crinical peactice of acupuncture.
Effects of acupunctural therapy against headache hace already been reported in many cases, but few reports hace been published so far on the use of acupunctural stimulation for the purpose of diagnosis. In the past 15 years, we used the acupunctural stimulation dor diagnosis of tinnitus and headache and ecaluated the meanings of uts use.
In the present study, we examind the cases whose pains could be reproduced by the acupunctula stimulation in the patients with pain who were introduced to us for diagnosis from the Department of otorhinolaryngology of our hospital.
Ptients and method: Of the patients with pain as the chige complaints whise diagmoses were requested to the Oriental Medicine clinic from the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of Showa University since April 1982 up until October 1990, thise whi complained of facial pain were subjected to our diagnosis, previding that they had no abnormalities in the otorhinolaryngological and ophthalmological checks.
A stainless steel needle (50mm Mo. 20) was usedfor theusting into block points of greater occiptal nerce and the possible relationship between the pain and the sense of reacting sense was examind at the time of thrusting.
Results: 1) It could be reconfirmed that the reacting sensation was produced deep in the inner part and in the epicanthal area of eyes by the neadle thrusting to block points of the greater occipital berce. 2) Ammong the patients who had been teated nefor against trigeminal neuralgia or what were claimed to be pains of eyes of buknown causes, there were cases withe pains coincidental with pathological symptoms such a manner that the reacting sensation by the neadle thrusting (1) resembled the nature of the pain and (2) wads coincidental with that of the affected regions, and (3) the pain could be reproduced by the acupunctural stimulatiom in synchronization with the acupuncturalhandling of the neadle. 3) The efficary of the acupunctueal treatments was higher in those whose pains could be reproducedby the acupunctueal stimulation.
Summaary: The stimulations to the block points of the greater occipital berve caused reacting sessation deep in the inner part of eyes. By utilizing this sensation for diagnostic purposes, sone cases could be properly diagnosed. On the ground of these fundungs it can be claimed that the acupunctueal stimulation according to the method in our present study would be one of the useful methods for cheeck of the pain and also for therapeutic treatment in view of the therapeutic meanings of the findings described in the subparagraphe of (1) through (3) in the paragraph 2) and in the paragraph 3) of the above-mentioned “Results”.

Attention has been focussed more in recent years on health control for the middle/advance-aged, in the midst of so-called aged society or complicated society. As one of the measures, sports with the purpose of health promotion/stress removal have been more vigorously made, contrary to which, sporting disturbances, accompanied by abrupt sports, are on the increase. Many cases, however, with muscular pain and light joint sprain etc. are treated personally with poultices/adhesives of a chilling type, while various warming adhesives with its warming therapy happen to demonstrate an effect or another against chronic stiff shoulder and lumbago, due to long-lasting stress. Nowadays, adhesives of both such chilling and warming types are available on market; muscular pains and stiffness being practically treated casually with warming therapy (warming sensation).
The warming effect of PCP-S was investigated by using thermography, the result of which runs as follows.
1. Application of PCP-S adhesives caused a clear dermal temperature increase, with a significant difference from the un-treated control and the side opposite to the applied.
2. The comparison between PCP-S and O-S, removed of its active extract, proved a skin temperature increase due to capsicum extract and not due to a change in dressing the dermal surface of the skin.
3. Result of the comparison in temperature increase between the application for 60 minutes and 120 minutes recognized the peak to occur at 60-70 minutes.
4. A more significant dermal warming effect was seen on main body than on upper limbs.
5. Sensation of warming, prickling and light pain sensation occurd in that order, with no suspension of its application due to pain.

Effects of electric acupunctural stimulation though one hand against reactions in the vascular system in nasal mucosa due to changes in physical position were examined in the present study. The results are as followed;
1) That the reactions in the vascular system in nasal mucosa by changes in physical position indicated a rise in the resistance in the nostril which was made the lower side and a drop in the resistance in the nostril which was made the upper side and that this finding had reproducibility.
2) That no rise in the resistance in the nostril was found out even when the nostril treated in advance with adrenalinon its mucosa was made the lower side in the lateral decubitus, but that the resistance in the untreated nostril (with adrenalin) rose up when it was made the lower side.
3) That the electric acupunctural stimulation through one hand caused no adverse effect upon the rise in the resistance in the nostril on the lower sidle in the lateral decubitus, thought it was the side given the stimulation.