This article investigates the effect of regulating wei qi and tonifying brain on insomnia from two aspects. It provides theoretical basis for clinical application of regulating wei qi and tonifying brain. First of all, this method regulates the sleep function to keep the body’s yin-yang balance by regulating wei qi. Wei qi is the defense qi in the body and has close relationship with sleep. Wei qi can regulate sleep by the excitement and depression of Yin and Yang Heel Meridians. Then, this method also can improve the brain function for insomnia treatment by dredging Governor Channel and tonifyjng marrow, tonifyjng brain and calming the nerves. On basis of inheriting traditional theory, this article expounds the theory of treating insomnia by regulating wei qi and tonifying brain and verifi es its stable therapeutic effect and safty by clinic study.

Multimedia teaching and SimMan,which is a portable and advanced patient simulator for team training,were used to develop a new course for the medical students of grade four. This course was named "SimMan clinical techniques training". The course of Sim-Man clinical techniques training can help students comprehend truly all kinds of cases in clinical practices,improve their capabilities of clinical thoughts and clinical techniques,and it makes fine basis for their clinical practices in the hospitals.

The connotation and extension of the acupuncture changes along with the development of science and technology. Working out the principle on the connotation and extension of acupuncture at present will contribute to better inherit and development of acupuncture. In this paper, through literature analysis, the study on the process of formation and development of acupuncture, we believe connotation of acupuncture and moxibustion mainly include the basic theory of TCM, meridians theory, diagnosis, techniques, clinics, and literatures of acupuncture and moxibustion;and its extension include basic integrated medicine of acupuncture and moxibustion, physiology, pathology, and theories, techniques and clinics derived from modern science.

OBJECTIVETo explore the technique of temperature control on the abdomen in penetrating moxibustion through observing moxibustion time on the abdomen, abdominal skin temperature and effect after moxibustion so as to provide the safe, effective and easily applicable method for penetrating moxibustion.

METHODSThirty-two patients were selected in an observation group, 32 healthy persons in a control group. In the observation group, the penetrating moxibustion was applied to the corresponding acupoint locations according to different symptoms. In the control group, moxibustion was used on the abdomen around the umbilicus. The skin temperature was recorded once every minute. The skin temperature of known heat sensation, the time of known heat sensation, the known reduced temperature, the time of temperature reducing, the skin temperature difference, the duration of penetrating moxibustion and the reaction of moxibustion from participants were recorded.

RESULTSThe differences in the skin temperature of known heat sensation, the time of known heat sensation and the duration of penetrating moxibustion were significant statistically in comparison between the observation group and the control group (all P<0.01). The differences in the known reduced temperature, the time of temperature reducing and the skin tem- perature difference were not significant (all P>0.05). The differences were significant statistically in skin rashes and moxibustion reaction (gastrointestinal peristalsis, chills, ant climbing feeling and hunger, etc.) between the two groups (P<0.01). The differences were not significant statistically in flushing, sweating and blisters (all P>0.05).

CONCLUSION(1) The level of temperature sensitivity in the observation group is lower than that in the control group. During penetrating moxibustion, the sensations such as gastrointestinal peristalsis, chills, ant climbing feeling and hunger appear easily, suggesting the positive self-adjustment in the body. (2) During penetrating moxibustion, the warm feeling is penetrated not just from the epidermis to the abdominal cavity and lumbar region, but also up to thehead and down to the knee. (3) The flushing, sweating and skin rashes are the important indices for the effectiveness of penetrating moxibustion. (4) The temperature control is the core technique of penetrating moxibustion. The penetrating moxibustion in 28 min to 32 min and the temperature controlled in 43 degrees C to 45 degrees C can solve the moxibustion smoky impact to the environment, but also relieve pains of the patients.

Abdomen ; physiology ; Acupuncture Points ; Adult ; Case-Control Studies ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Moxibustion ; Skin Temperature ; Thermosensing ; Young Adult

Objective:The purpose of this paper is based on the concept of enhanced recovery after surgery, to discuss the timing of taking food and water in knee arthroplasty patients, as well as its feasibility and safety, so as to improve the quality of quality nursing services.Methods:The 226 knee arthroplasty patients in Luoyang Orthopedic-Traumatological Hospital (Henan Provincial Orthopedic Hospital) from September 2020 to November 2021 were selected and divided into a control group and a experimental group using the random number table method, with 113 cases in each group. The control group adopted a conventional postoperative feeding management method; the experimental group adopted the early and timely feeding management method after comprehensive assessment. The data were compared between the two groups, including the incidence and severity of postoperative nausea and vomiting within 6 h and from 6 to 24 h after surgery , the incidence of thirst and hunger at 2 h, 4 h and 6 h postoperatively, and the comfort level.Results:The incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting was lower in the experimental group [19.5%(22/113), 13.3%(15/113)] than in the control group [32.7%(37/113), 23.9%(27/113)] within 6 h and from 6 to 24 h after surgery, and the severity (21 cases of gradeⅠ, 10 cases of gradeⅡand 6 cases of grade Ⅲ) was also lower than in the control group (17 cases of gradeⅠ, 29 cases of gradeⅡand 18 cases of grade Ⅲ), and the differences were all statistically significant ( χ2 = 5.16,4.21, Z = -2.72, P<0.05). The incidence of thirst were lower in the experimental group [14.2%(16/113), 8.0%(9/113), 2.7%(3/113)] than in the control group [26.5%(30/113), 29.2%(33/113), 40.0%(35/113) at 2 h, 4 h and 6 h postoperatively, and the incidence of hunger at 4 h and 6 h postoperatively [11.5%(13/113), 8.0%(9/113)] were lower than in the control group [32.7%(37/113), 34.5%(39/113)], with statistically significant differences ( χ2 values were 5.35 to 32.39, all P<0.05). The postoperative comfort scale scores of physiological (31.04 ± 1.00) and psychological (33.50 ± 1.45) were higher in the experimental group than in the control group (27.46 ± 1.78) and (31.37 ± 1.29), and the differences were statistically significant ( t values were -102.36 to -66.26, all P<0.05). Conclusions:Early postoperative feeding management at the right time reduces the incidence and severity of postoperative nausea and vomiting inknee arthroplasty patients. In addition, it can also reduce the incidence of thirst and hunger, and improve patients′ postoperative physiological and psychological comfort, which has a facilitating effect on achieving rapid recovery of patients.

Objective To investigate the predictive value of inflammatory cells and clinical features in the prognosis of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).Methods The data of 163 cases of stage Ⅲ and Ⅳ NSCLC patients treated with the ICIs in this hospital from January 1,2017 to December 31,2022 were collected.The CT examination was conducted after 6-8 weeks treatment.The pa-tients were divided into the objective remission group[complete remission (CR)+partial remission (PR)]and non-objective remission group[stable disease (SD)+progressed disease (PD)],disease control group (CR+PR+SD) and non-disease control group (PD),persistent clinical benefit group (DCB) and non-DCB group.The differences in clinical features and inflammatory cells indicators were compared among the differ-ent groups.The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was adopted to evaluate the predictive efficiency of the inflammatory cells indicators for DCB.The influencing factors analysis of progression free survival (PFS) time and overall survival (OS) time adopted the Cox regression analysis.Results The lymphocyte count (ALC) in the disease control group was higher than that in the non-disease control group.The neutro-phil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR),platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and mononuclear lymphocyte ratio (MLR) were lower than those in the non-disease control group.The proportions of squamous cell carcinoma,stage Ⅲ,ECOG score 0-1 point,adverse reactions in the DCB group were higher than those in the non-DCB group (P<0.05),the PLT count,NLR,PLR and MLR were lower than those in the non-DCB group (P<0.05). The ROC curve analysis results showed that PLT,NLR,PLR and MLR could serve as the indicators for pre-dicting DCB,the area under of ROC curve (AUC) was 0.633,0.602,0.635 and 0.604 respectively,the opti-mal cut off values were 187×109/L (P=0.004),5.0 (P=0.026),235 (P=0.003) and 0.35 (P=0.024) re-spectively.The multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that non-squamous carcinoma including adenocar-cinoma (HR=1.565,95％CI:1.057-2.316) and other pathologic types (HR=2.285,95％CI:1.326-3.936),ECOG score 2-3 points (HR=2.375,95％CI:1.652-3.415),AMC≥0.65×109/L (HR=1.847,95％CI:1.160-2.938) and PLR≥235 (HR=1.557,95％CI:1.016-2.386) were the independent risk factors for short PFS.The ECOG score 2-3 points (HR=4.615,95％CI:2.882-7.391),AMC≥0.65×109/L (HR=5.161,95％CI:2.984-8.925) and PLR ≥235 (HR=1.732,95％CI:1.059-2.833) were the independent risk fac-tors for short OS (P<0.05),and having adverse reactions (HR=0.472,95％CI:0.294-0.757) was the independ-ent protective factor for short OS (P<0.05).Conclusion Lower PLT,AMC,NLR,MLR and PLR,higher ALC,squamous cell carcinoma,TNM stage Ⅲ,ECOG score 0-1 point and immunotherapy related adverse reactions could prompt that the prognosis is good in ICIs treating advanced NSCLC.PLT,NLR,PLR and MLR could serve as the indicators for predicting DCB.