OBJECTIVETo observe therapeutic effect of tongue acupuncture on stroke.

METHODSOne hundred and ninety cases were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, 95 cases in each group. The patients in the observation group were treated by tongue acupuncture combined with body acupuncture, and the control group by simple body acupuncture.

RESULTSThe total effective rate was 95.8% in the observation group and 80.0% in the control group, the observation group being significantly better than the control group.

CONCLUSIONTongue acupuncture has a better therapeutic effect on stroke.

Acupuncture Therapy ; Humans ; Stroke ; therapy

OBJECTIVETo observe effect of opening point method of ziwu liuzhu on myocardial ischemia in the patient of stroke.

METHODSThirty cases of stroke with myocardial ischemia were treated with opening acupoint according to time of the combination of reinforcing mother point and reducing son point of the heart channel in nazi method of ziwu liuzhu, and 30 cases in the control group were treated with acupuncture at Guangming (GB 37). Changes of electrocardiogram before and after treatment were recorded.

RESULTSST-T segment raised significantly 30 min after treatment with ziwu liuzhu needling method as compared with the control group (P < 0.05), the treatment group being better than the control group.

CONCLUSIONExcessive and deficient changes of the qi and blood in the meridians and collaterals are correlated with time rhythm, and ziwu liuzhu needling method can increase clinical therapeutic effect.

Acupuncture Points ; Acupuncture Therapy ; Humans ; Meridians ; Myocardial Ischemia ; Stroke ; therapy

BACKGROUND: Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is a promising method for the study of brain function. Typically, rs-fMRI is performed on anesthetized animals. Although different functional connectivity (FC) in various anesthetics on whole brain have been studied, few studies have focused on different FC in the aged brain. Here, we measured FC under three commonly used anesthesia methods and analyzed data to determine if the FC in whole brain analysis were similar among groups. METHODS: Twenty-four male aged Wistar rats were randomly divided into three groups (n = 8 in each group). Anesthesia was performed under either isoflurane (ISO), combined ISO + dexmedetomidine (DEX) or α-chloralose (AC) according to the groups. Data of rs-fMRI was analyzed by FC in a voxel-wise way. Differences in the FC maps between the groups were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance and post hoc two-sample t tests. RESULTS: Compared with ISO + DEX anesthesia, ISO anesthesia caused increased FC in posterior brain and decreased FC in the middle brain of the aged rat. AC anesthesia caused global suppression as no increase in FC was observed. CONCLUSION ISO could be used as a substitute for ISO + DEX in rat default mode network studies if the left temporal association cortex is not considered important.
Anesthesia ; Animals ; Brain/diagnostic imaging* ; Brain Mapping ; Isoflurane ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar