Piercing acupuncture therapy is a method by which the needle is inserted at special acupoints or reaction points and inserted to a determined depth toward another acupoint or an opposite side such that the needle is inserted subcutaneously to the object area. For example, when the needle is inserted at GB-53 passing through BL-54 toward KI-10 the needle passes through the connective tissue subcutaneously to the objective side, pecking techniques are administered and the needle withdrawn. By so doing the needle need not pierce the skin on the opposite side moreover the needle is inserted at an area at which there is no resistance to the needle point during insertion and no resistance to changes in insertion direction.
We obtained excellent effects not only with periarthritis of the shoulder, elbow arthralgia, knee arthralgia and other motor system diseases using piercing acupuncture methods, but also with reflexive pain in the thoracic abdominal and lumbar regions as well as numbness of the 4 limbs, paralysis, etc.. In 56% of the cases the pain completely disappeareed with 1 treatment and was alleviated in 35%, that is, in total, 91% pain relieving results were obtained. In 16 cases pain recurred however after 2-7 insertions the pain disappeared completely. In the remaining 9% of the cases no change or impairment was reported thus therapeutic methods were changed after 1 treatment. In these experiments in addition to treatment in the area of pain we examined for tenderness between the spinous processes of the vertebrae and administered piercing acupuncture therapy. Tenderness was especially remarkable between c₃-c₄ and c₄-c₅, occuring in 70% of the cases. These were cases of periarthritis of the shoulder, inability to twist neck, epigastrium pain, thoracic pain, numbness of fingers and hand, elbow pain, etc..
Piercing acupuncture therapy is one of the special specific treatment acupuncture techniques. Frequently good results are obtained with only one insertion however used as a supplementary technique for heretofore used acupuncture therapy it will be found even more effective.

Every disorder makes an appearance on the command points in the extremities. Taking three command points, we examined variations of electric resistivity in vertigo.
The termal point showed low level in general, whereas the connecting was high, especially in the lower extremities. Post treatment it had a tendency to get the mean.
About the laterality we were able to improve their instability, but were not able to establish whether it was effective or not.
Vertigo made an appearance on various meridians and points.

The authors undertook acupuncture-moxibustion therapy for 34 patients with vertigo. In order to objectify the patients' condition and the efficacy of the treatment, we ranked the severity of symptoms and standardized the treatment procedure, and also we set up the criterion for evaluation of efficaciousness.
The severity of symptoms was determined according to the result of some tests (for nystagmus and balance) as well as patient's chief complaints: the incidence and the intensity of feelings of rotation, giddiness, etc.
Treatment was undertaken once a week. One course was consist of ten treatments. Scarless moxibustion was applied to the Second Dadun point in the first course, and body-acupuncture was added to the moxibustion in the second course. In the third course, the scarless moxibustion, the body-acupuncture, auricular-acupuncture and scalp skin acupuncture were undertaken.
The efficaciousness of the treatment was rated as “remarkably efficacious”, “very efficacious”, “efficacious” or “no change” according to the changes in patients' complaints and the results of the tests performed after each course.
Twelve of the patients showed improvement after the first course (remarkably efficacious) and other twelve after the second course (very efficacious), and five of them after the third course (effecacious). The other five patients underwent more than four courses (no change).
In conclusion, improvement was seen in 85% of the patients after 30 sessions of acupuncture-moxibustion treatment including scarless moxibustion to the Second Dadun, body and auricular-acupuncture.

Acupuncture-moxibustion treatment was undertaken on two patients (a 34-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman) who were diagnosed as allergic rhinitis in an otorhinological department. The patients underwent the treatment once a week, in which direct-or scarless-moxibustion (15 pieces) was applied to Tachui (GV14) and acupuncture for whole body adjustment. The subjective symptoms, eosinophil in pituita and the results of other blood examinations were compared with those of their first visits. The eosinophiles in the pituita disappeared and those in the blood fell to the average level. Although there are individual differences, a certain prolonging effect was seen in the follow-up data.