Introduction
Using a low frequency current radiation together with acupuncture, we observed the effect of acupuncture.
Method
To the same patients, we administered it ante, in and post acupuncture for the purpose of detecting and comparing their pleasant sensation among these three methods.
Effect
Many patients felt it better ante and post acupuncture. It was better ante acupuncture to those patients receiving acupuncture for the first time. The experienced, on the contrary, acknowledged that they felt it better post acupuncture.

Purpose: Upon very specific diagnosis facial pain can be classified into idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia, secondary trigeminal neuralgia, neuralgia of the glossopharyngeal nerve, superior pharyngeal neuralgia, knee area neualgia and indeterminate facial pain.
In the future it will be necessary to determinate to what degree the acupuncture-moxibustion therapy is effective in treating these cases, and also when nerve block therapy is indicated and should be applied.
In the literature of the acupuncture-moxibustion trigeminal neuralgia is found among such diseases, for which A-M therapy is indicated, however the degree of effectiveness is unclear. Therefore we intend to clarify just how effective can be the acupuncture-moxibustion therapy in the pain clinic treatment of definitely diagnosed idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia.
Method: Among the facial pain patients, who visited the Pain Clinic, the Dep. of Anesthesiology, Osaka Medical University, we selected idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia patients, in whom the pain occured along the branch of the nerve, and indeterminate trigeminal neuralgia patients, in whom the pain occured diffusely and not necessarily along the path of the nerve, and we performed a comparison of effect of treatments with principally accupuncture and with principally nerve block.
The study was based on a questionnaire investigating long term results.
Results: Concerning facial pain, the results of the acupuncture-moxibustion therapy for idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia showed fewer cases of excellent or effective results than the nerve block therapy, but in fact most results of the former showed some effect. However, for indeterminate type trigeminal neuralgia more excellent results were observed with acupuncture therapy.
Of facial pain the acupuncture-moxibustion therapy is indicated for the treatment of indeterminate type of trigeminal neuralgia, however, it was learned that in general for the treatment of idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia the acupuncture-moxibustion therapy was less effective than the nerve block therapy.

Purpose:
We believe there are very few therapists who in seeking therapeutic results use simply acupuncture or moxibustion. Most supplement therapy with physical therapy or some other form of therapy. We examined to see whether or not differences in results when acupuncture was used alone or accompanied by physical therapy were discernible.
Methods of Observation:
From among the charts of patients who visited our clinic during the year 1980 we selected periarthritis of the shoulder, lumbago and motor disturbance of the knee patients, divided them into 2 groups-acupuncture and moxibustion only group, and supplementary treatment (physical therapy techniques including infrared rays, UHF and low frequency therapy) and compared results. The evaluation was based on answers to questionairres circulated 2-3 months after the end of treatment or answers received during telephone interviews.
Results:
The rate of effectivity of therapeutic results was about the same however the number of treatment periods required was fewer in the supplementary treatment group.
Discussion of Results:
By supplementing acupuncture-moxibustion therapy with physical therapy techniques the range of diseases to which therapy is applicable is greatly, moreover it became empirically clear from this study that it is possible to quicken results.

In the previous paper, we reported on the pathways of PSC and also upon the coincedent rates of PSC and the classical meridians.
In this paper, some remarkable observations on the PSC of the same patient are reported on: the echo sensation of PSC on the posterior median extra meridian, the inn-ue extra meridian and the regular meridians, excepting the heart meridian, reached to the head where the patient had her chief complaint. The farthest traveled echo sensation of PSC was on the inn-ue extra meridian and the broadest on the kidney meridian, the bladder meridian and the yan-wei extra meridian. PSC displayed body symetry and reproducibility. Fingerpressure applied at a point along the path of echo sensation served to interrupt the sensation over an area immediately following that point. The spatial length of PSC was enlarged by heating the area in question.

We treated a patient (aged 57, a housewife, traumatic cervical syndrome), to be called a meridian sensitive patient, who displayed definite meridian phenomenon.
In the patient, a type of meridian phenomena, Phenomenon of Propagated Sensation along the Channels (PSC), was examined. Reffering the Nagahama and Maruyama's method and the method used in China, we employed a method whereby a pressure stimulus was applied with a press needle alternately to the terminal point on each of the 12 regular meridians as well as to a certain point on each of the extra meridians.
As a result, the following coincidence rates of PSC and the classical meridians were obtained:
20% (the small intestine meridian, the posterior median extra meridian, the impetuous pulse and the extra meridian around the waist) of all the 20 meridians were almost entirely coincident.
55% of all the meridians were partly coincident.
25% (the spleen pancreas meridian, the heart meridian, the pericardium meridian, the lung meridian and the anterior midline meridian) were not coincident.

In order to clarify the physiological nature of the local differences in the skin electroconductivity we measured transcutaneous electric current on the representative (determinate) points of Ryodo-Raku (by Y. Nakatani) which correspond to so-called Genketu of traditional Chinese medicine with a wet electrode of 1cm in diameter in the condition of D. C. 12 volts and 200 uA when, both electrodes are directly connected. Eighty-two healthy adults were tested once and four other healthy adults were tested daily for eight days. We analysed mathematically the values of measurements by the principal component analysis.
As a result, we found that the electroconductivity of the skin in the upper and lower limbs both, and volar and dorsal sites of the upper limb changed independently each other and showed from rough to close interrelations according to the orders as above-mentioned.

In order to investigate the meridian phenomenon elicited by the stimulation on auricular acupuncture point, a patient, 58-year old, in whom marked meridian phenomena are observed on the body was selected as a subject.
The stimuli were ginen by means of a low frequency electrical stick method on the 210 auricular-points of the left ear.
The echo sensation to the remote district from the auriculo-points stimulated was observed in about 30% of the total points.
In 4.3%, the site to which echo sensation reached corresponded to the response organ that is expresed in the name of point. A point named “anesthetic point for tooth extraction” was one of the representatives.
The comfortable feeling over head, eyes, and whole body was also observed when stimulation was given to these points.

We investigated changes of the amperage on the dorsalis by the hand acupuncture under the condition of DC 12 volt, 200uA when both electrodes are connected.
(Method) We leaved a stainless steel needle, 25mm lenght and 0.26mm in diameter, on the first lumbar and thigh region point of 16 healthy adults for 10min. 2×2cm aluminum foil coated with keratin cream was used as a elcectrode for the measurement. We measured in pre-practice, post-practice, 10min, 20min, and 30min. The measurement velues in every time were examined by means principal component analysis.
(Results) Acupuncture stimulation on the first lumbar and thigh region point showed the tendency of operation upon the symmetric L4resion.