Characteristics of Xiao-Chai-Hu-Tang prepared by fifteen patients were quantitatively examined in order to clarify how decoction procedures infulence qualities of the decoction. It was found that the fifteen Xiao-Chai-Hu-Tang decoctions showed some variations of freeze-dried extract yield and concentrations of such bioactive components as saikosaponins, glycyrrhizin and baicalin.

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.

The acupuncture has been known to induce the changes is not only needling part but also other parts distant from needling part.
The histlogical or physiological changes observed in the skin of needling locus have been reported but the changes on the distant part from needling locus have not been known.
In the present study, the changes is skin tempreture on epigastrium “hsin hsia pi” (stagnancy under under the hert) caused by needling on loci Left S36, Right S36, Left P6, Right P6, Left LI4, Right LI4, and Right Liv 8 were observed by Thermal Video System.
The needling on the these loci induced the increase of skin tempreture in epigastic region. In addition, the needling on Left S36 was most effectve the increase the skin tempreture in epigastic region, and the increasing tempreture was 0.5°C.

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.

Introduction
We tried to prove the effectiveness of acupuncture against unidentified syndrome.
Method
Subjects were women complaining of unidentified syndrome and divided into the control group and test group. Galenicals extact was given to all of them and acupuncture was administered to the test group. The examination was a sequential medical trial in a restricted design (2α=0.05, 1-β=0.95, θ₁=0.90 and N=19). Acupuncture was applied twice a week for two weeks. We evaluated their subjective symptoms, difficulties in daily life and so on with MPI-test and MV-test.
Conclusion
Among the two groups, patients were randomly paired off into ten couples. Thus, a subjective comparison was possible. Global improvement rating by patients was effective for the symptoms of 60% of the test group, and 10% of the control group (p<0.05). As to the difficulties in daily life, it was effective for 70% of the test group, whereas only 20% of the control group. About subjective symptoms, there was a significant difference in the stiffness in shoulder (p<0.10). On MV-test, the test group of five pairs showed an increase in theta waves (p<0.05) and a decrease in beta waves (p<0.10).

Recently the circadian rhythm has been payed attention. The circadian rhythm is influenced by the light and dark, the meal and the travel. We recognized that the circadian rhythm was normalized by bathing in hot spring.
The circadian rhythm of patients on 17-OHCS and 17-KS in urine was abnormal and this rhythm was normalized by the bathing in Shirahama Hot Spring.
P-cortisol and p-ACTH of various patients (specially female psychosomatic disease) had the abnormal circadian rhythm, and those were normalized by bathing in Ryujin Hot Spring.
Serotonine in brain, meratonine and serotonine in pineal body and CRF in hypothalamus of normal rats don't changed by bathing in spa.
The normal circadian rhythm don't changed and the abnormal rhythm was normalized by bathing in spa.
Thus, the one of effects on bathing in spa is normalization of hormon rhythm.

In recent years the biological rhythms has been concerned. Lately we recognized that there were differences of degrees by the constitutions on the skin-temperature and bodily temperature. On Sympathicotonie and Vagotonie the rhythms-widths of skin-temperature had difference, but their cycles are same. The cycie of armpit-temperature and that of skin-temperature are reverse. Therefore the skin-temperature is importhant about the circadian rhythms.