A Clinical Study of Acupuncture and Moxibustion for the Hypersinsitivity to Cold (Part 2)

• Published in: Zen Nihon Shinkyu Gakkai zasshi (Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion) Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 198 - 205
• Main Authors: NEMOTO, Kouzou, TANZAWA, Shohhachi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: The Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion 1990
• ISSN: 0285-9955; 1882-661X
• DOI: 10.3777/jjsam.40.198

We conducted a comparative study on acupuncture and moxibustion treatment to 23 patients with cold sensitiveness and some sort of basal disorder, seperating them into two groups of 13 patients with hemiplegia and 10 non-cerebral apoplexy patients. As a result, there was 60.9% improvement with cold sensitiveness patients with basal disorder from acupuncture and moxibustion treatment. When comparing them by the types of their basal disorder. there was a 53.8% improvement for hemiplegia patients and 70.0% improvement for the non-cerebral apoplexy patients. with the former having considerably low rate of improvement against the latter. The fact that the improvement rate of the hemiplegia patients were much lower than the average rate, can be presumed that the factors of local circulation failure due to functional disorder of the autonomic of the central nervrous system, in addition to the motor nerve palsy from organic disorder of the brain has some effect. Therefore, a central nervous system factor can be considered to have some impact on the mechanism of acupuncture and moxibution treatment to take effect.