A marked increase in the number of acupuncture medicine literature was proved during the 10 years ranging from 1975 to 1984 compared with 20 years ranging from 1955 to 1974. Basic scientific studies in this field also increased recently.
Clinical studies were carried out on 2000 cases treated with acupuncture in the Toyo Igaku Gijutsu Kenshu Center and on 465 cases similarly treated in the Outpatient Clinik of Oriental Medicine attached to Saitama Medical School.
Female patients prevailed slightly over male patients. (56:44)
Middle and old age patients occupied the majority.
54-56% of the patients had history of disorder over one year.
Backache, shoulder and arm pain, headache, tinnitus, leg pain and cold feet were the frequent chief complaints.
Improvement was seen in 54.2% of the Center patients and in 83.2% of the patients treated in the Outpatient Clinik of the Saitama Medical School on an average.
Gradual increase in ameriolation was observed through serial repetition of treatment but it was likely to show an oscillatory or rhythmical change in improvement rate, that is, a decrease at 11.-20. time treatment suggesting an adaptation with biological rhythm to the acupuncture treatment. Further studies from this view point will be necessary to elucidate action mechanism of acupuncture treatment.

Promissing planning to develop Hungarian thermal tourism is carried on by the Hungarian Government under the aid and co-operation of the United Nations. There are over one thousand thermal springs (sources), of which more than 400 supply water of a temperature above 35°C. The number of thermal bath resorts today exceeds one hundred. Fifty bath resorts registered with health authorities as medical and in eight of them medical treatment of high standards is given.
According to the data of the Research Institute of Water Economy 150 wells (36.6%) show a water temperature between 35-44°C, 120 wells (29.5%) between 45-59°C, 63 wells (15.5%) between 60-74°C, 43 wells (10.6%) between 75-89°C, and 32 wells (7.8%) have a water temperature of 90°C and above.
Chemical analysis of thermal waters were carried out in 333 wells. Most frequent are alkaline waters (153 wells, 39.6%). Next come iodine-brome containing waters (80 wells 20.7%). Simple thermals occupy 59 wells (15.3%), sulphurous waters 23 wells (6%) and calcium-magnesium-hydrogen carbonated waters 11 wells (2.8%). There is no strongly radio active water.
Swimming pools, big open air thermal baths and wave baths are characteristic features of the Hungarian Spas and well developed.