Irradiation by low output semiconductor laser beam according to the method using “Koshi” by acupuncture at an irradiation site of lesions and a contralateral site of healthy region as a control resulted in expansion of the mobility range of neck, shoulder and arm syndromes. It was effective for motion pains of arm joint or joint pains of metacarpophalangeal joint and also effective for lumbago and neuralgia. It did not easily improve the effects on cervical motion pain and knee joint pain. In all 29 cases (consisting of 6 men and 23 women aging 30 to 75 years), 18 were effective: 3 of 3 cases with neck, shoulder and arm syndrome, 1 of 4 cases with cervical movement pains, 1 of 2 cases with arm joint pains, 2 of 2 cases with back pains, 6 of 8 cases with lumbago, 1 of 5 cases with knee joint pains, 2 of 2 cases with neuralgia, 1 of 1 case with foot joint pains, and 1 of 1 case with metacarpophalangeal joint pains, 9 moderate: 3 of 4 cases with cervical motion pains, 1 of 2 cases with arm joint pains, 1 of 8 cases with lumbago, 3 of 5 cases with knee joint pains, and 1 of 1 case with elbow joint pains, and 2 poor: 1 of 8 cases with lumbago and 1 of 5 cases with knee joint pains. Thus laser beam effectiveness was confirmed.

Semiconductor laser beams were irradiated through a puncture orifice in response to several symptoms accompaning slight gastritis and enteritis encountered in daily practice. Effectiveness was confirmed by the following results: 1) 3 cases of nausea accompanied with acute gastritis resulted in improvement in all 3 cases; 2) 6 cases of sense of stomach heaviness without gastritis more improved in 5 cases and poor in 1 case; 3) 6 cases of stomachache accompanied with gastritis were improved in 4 cases with moderate effectiveness in 2 cases; 4) 2 cases of a sense of abdominal bloating and abdominal pain accompanied with enteritis were both improved; 5) 6 cases of nausea, sense of stomach heaviness, stomachache, and abdominal pain accompanied with gastritis and enteritis were improved in 5 cases and poor in 1 case; 6) these effects appeared within 15 to 30min after irradiation; 7) the effectiveness of semiconductor laser beam could be confirmed as it resulted in improvement in 19 cases, moderate in 2, and poor in 2 out of a total of 23 cases with gastrointestinal symptoms; 8) no abverse reaction was observed in any case.

To demonstrate acupunctural effects on remote areas of the human body, a needle was held stationary at l-Lv-8 and the changes in skin temperature were measured at the location of the congested-blood syndrome in the left hypogastric region, using a skin thermometer and a thermal video system. The acupuncture caused the temperature to rise from a level lower than in the normal state. As a control, healthy persons were treated in the same manner, but no appreciable change was observed.
With a patient having congested-blood syndrom in the left hypogastric region, the l-Lv-8 point was tender to the touch. This was not the case with healthy persons.
It has thus been demonstrated that a stationary insertion at an abnormal point has an effect on the specific, remote location where the abnormal condition exists.
Only one insertion at an abnormal point has proven effective.

In this study, we investigated the effect of bathing with cut crude drugs on thermal preservability, water holding capacity, and smoothness of the feel. After immersion with cut crude drugs of 5min at 41°C, the forearm skin core temperature was significantly higher than after plain water bathing. Water sorption-desorption tests on the skin in vivo with cut crude drug extract for the functional assessment of the stratum corneum revealed that the GARENIAE FRUCTUS extract, all of cut crude drugs extract, and FOENICULI FRUCTUS extract are significantly superior to plain water bathing in water holding capacity.
Furthermore, an evaluation using a skin model revealed that cut crude drugs have effects significantly superior to that of plain water bathing in increasing the smoothness of the feel. The above results clarified that bathing with cut crude drugs has a stronger effect on thermal preservability and that their extract increases water holding capacity and smoothness of the feel.

We report a patient displaying several symptoms of myelitis associated with atopic dermatitis. The patient, a 35-year-old female, initially suffered from gait titubation that gradually developed into motor disturbance. She underwent many tests (blood, cerebrospinal fluid, electromyography, and brain, cervical, and lumbar spinal cord and muscle MRIs) at several hospitals, including a university institution, over the course of two years until she finally came to our hospital. However, her disease was never identified by these tests, and she was referred to our hospital to start rehabilitation for her disability which was believed to be caused by disuse syndrome. On first examination, muscle hypertonia of both legs, hypoesthesia of all extremities, difficulty sitting, and a low performance level of ADL were observed. Judging by the factors (e.g. age, neurological symptoms), we considered that the patient was not suffering disuse syndrome, and recommended that she attend another medical college hospital for a thorough investigation. The disease was finally diagnosed as atopic myelitis, as indicated by the test results (e.g. hyperIgEemia). She could sit without a back rest and undertake gait training between parallel bars after steroid pulse therapy at the hospital. While she undertook rehabilitation at our hospital, we applied some approaches to adapt to her fluctuating symptoms (e.g. making short leg braces for both legs, injection of botulinum toxin A (BOTOX^®) in the leg). We recognized we should gather as much information as possible given the rarity of the disease.