Tao Zhili Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
Issue 4, Pages: 397-402(1989)
摘要:The morphological research of the acupoint began from 1977. The scholarshave studied on three main works as following. 1) The sensory organa in the acupoint: The area of acupoint contains freenerve ending, Vater-Pacini corpucleseand muscular spindle. The nerve fibers are I, II, III types, the chief is II. 2) The segmental distributions of afferent neuronal fibers of the acupoint:The evidence of the experimental research has reverled that the fibers of mainlyand essential acupoints are definite to be afferent segmentes. The fibers of theupper and lower limbs acupoints projected into III-IX lamina of, the pesteriorhorn of the spinal cord. 3) The mutual intersect in the dorsal ganglia between the segmental distri-butions of the afferent neurons of viscera and that of acupoints. It is proposed that the mutual intersect between the segmental distributionsof the afferent neurons of viscera and that of the acupoints is probable the
morphological foundation for the theory of somato-viscera.
Zhang Renhui, Liang Yanji, Ruan Pinxian, Wen Kehui General Hospital of Guagvhou Command PLA
Issue 4, Pages: 403-406(1989)
摘要:This arlicle summarized the effects of comhined acupuncture-epidural anaesthe-sia (n=37) and epidural anaesthesia (n=37) for operations of patients being in a critical, old, weak or special condition. And, the effecte were compared between the two different anaesthetic methods in a similar clinical condition. The patients studied were almost complicated with coronary arteriosclerotic heart disease,hypertension or other types of disease excepting the surgical condilion. Therewere different degrees of functional disturbance in their important visceral organs,The states of the body were all belong to critical or weak condition. This might be a difficulty of considerably great for anaesthesia and operation, By using combined acupuncture-epidural anaesthesis, the advantages of acupuncture anaes-thesia and epidural anaesthesia were brought into fully play, and, the defect of imcomplete analgesia as well as inadequate muscle relaxation was remedied. By acupuncture for 30 to 40 minutes, the EGG_s thal were originally abnormal had shown some improvement in parts of case and recovered to normal in individuralpatient. Even though the EGG_s had not shown improvement in some cases, but,taked no further steps to deterioate, although undergoing harmful effects in operative process, such as exploratioh, hemorrhage or others. In some cases, the circulative function showed stabilization exceeding one's expectations. The result showed that acupuncture has a regulative role on the cardiovascular system, thus enhancing the safety in anaesthetic process.
摘要:In this paper the averaged cortical evoked potential (C-CEP) induced by stimulating the C-fibers of the splanchnic nerve was used as an index of visceral pain to further study the effects of acupuncture and morphine on it. Experiments were carried out on 35 cats anesthetized with chloralose and immobilized with flaxedil. The splanchnic nerve was stimulated with electric pulses of varied strength and blocked by a galvanic current so as to cause A- or C-fibers input selectively. The cortical evoked potential was recorded on the contralateral postsigmoid gyrus and averaged by TQ- 19 Medical Data Processor. The compound action potential of splanchnic nerve was monitored. "Neiguan" acupoint was stimulated with electric pulses (0.1ms, 4v and 5Hz). The results were as
follows: 1) when "Neiguan" acupoint was excited with the electric pulses, C-CEP and the late component of A-CEP which was evoked by stimulating A-fibers of splanchnic nerve were obviously reduced in amplitudes. It was suggested that electro-acupuncture (EA) of "Neiguan" acupoint could inhibit visceral pain (the slow and fast pain).
2. After intraveaous injection of morphine, the amplitudes of C-CEP and the late component of A-CEP were depressed significantly, indicating that C-CEP might reflect the visceral slow pain and the late component of A-CEP reflect
the fast pain. 3. Naloxone could block partially the inhibitory effect of EA of "Neiguan"acupoint on C-CEP, suggesting that the inhibition of EA might be associated with the release of endogenous opiate like substances.
摘要:This laboratory had reported that acupuncture at "Tan-Zhong" acupoint couldstimulate pituitary prolactin (PRL) secretion in both lactating and non-lactating(male, female, ovariectomized estrogen-supplemented) rats. Hu et al haddiscovered that acupuncture could increase plasma PRL level in women of lacta-tion deficiency. As was known, pituitary PRL secretion was under the controlof prolactin inhibitory factor (PIF) and prolactin releasing factor (PRF) releasedfrom hypothalamic neurons as well as several central neurotransmitters. In thepast decade, many studies in neuroendocrinology revealed that Tubero-infundibulardopamine (TIDA) neurons of hypothalamus play a major modulating role in PRLsecretion. It is generally agreed that dopamine was the major PIF. Thecentral noradrenaline (NE) is also a modulator. It was reported that NE couldinhibit PRL secretion, but others obtained opposite result. Theraminobutyric acid (GABA) has dual actions on PRL secretion: central action isstimulatory, but inhibitory on pituitary directly Using agonist or antagonist of central neurotransmitter as well as its bio-synthesis blocker etc., this paper mainly observed the possible role of catechola-mine and r-aminobutyric acid in prolactin-elevating effect of acupuncture. Thiswill help further studying on and provide possible central mechanism for the
effect of promoting milk yield and elevating PRL secretion by acupuncture.
摘要:The spinal ganglion a cell body storage of somatic primary-sensory neurons,is considered as an important region for neurochemical research of primary afferent nerves. The present experiment aims at the observation on the Ach content andits changes in the ganglia of 128 rats by means of biochemical methods under theeffect of administration of Neostigmini and application of electroacupunctnrd. Itis found that there are evidence of existance of Ach in the ganglia and whan theAchE activity in the periphery nerve system is inhibited, the Ach content of gangliabecome rised. In addition, during acupuncture (applied at acupoint "Huantiao")analgesia, no apparent changes of Ach content can be visualized in spinal ganglia,however, the level of AchE activity goes up evidently. The foregoing resultsindicate that in the somatic primary-sensory neuron Ach is one of important neu-rotransmitters which may influence and take part in the transmission of sensoryinformation through primary afferent nerves.