TREATMENT OF 25 CASES OF TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA WITH ABDOMINAL ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY

Trigeminal Neuralgia is often found in female between 40-60 years old, marked by sudden severe pain on the face (a feeling of knife cutting, electric shock), and it is characterized by sudden, paroxysmal and periodical attack and triggered by touch). The attack usually lasts for 1 to 2 minutes with different intervals. The patient’s life quality can be seriously affected. It is mainly treated with orally taken drugs in western internal department but without satisfactory result, and with local closing therapy in surgical department. The problem may reoccur half a year later in most patients complicated with facial paralysis, so western medicine is not likely to be accepted by the patients. The author has tried to apply abdominal acupuncture in the treatment of 25 cases of trigeminal neuralgia with good effect. The result is as follows.

Bo′s abdominal acupuncture improves disordered metabolism in obese type 2 diabetic rats through regulating fibroblast growth factor 21 and its related adipokines

OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of Bo′s abdominal acupuncture(BOAA)on fibroblast growth factor 21(FGF21)and its related adipokines in type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM)rats.METHODS:This study established obese T2DM rat model by high-fat diet(HFD)with a dose of streptozotocin(STZ,30 mg/kg).Obese T2DM rats were randomly subdivided into four groups(n=10):negative,BOAA,conventional acupuncture(COA group)and metformin group(Met group)groups.The biochemical parameters,mRNAs,and proteins were analyzed using enzyme-lined immunoassays kits,quantitative polymerase chain reaction and Western blot.RESULTS:Treatment with BOAA attenuated the histopathological changes in visceral fat and restored the alterations in the levels of body weight,fasting blood glucose(FBG),homeostasis model assessment for insulin resistance(HOMA-IR).BOAA treatment significantly decreased the levels of triglyceride,total cholesterol,low density lipoprotein cholesterol,leptin,and increased the serum levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol,fibroblast growth factor 21(FGF21),adiponectin(ADP),peroxisome proliferator-activated receptorγ(PPAR-γ),C-peptide(C-P)in obese T2DM rats.Furthermore,BOAA treatment significantly increased the mRNA expressions of FGF21,ADP,leptin,PPAR-γ,PPAR-αand adenosine 5‘-monophosphate(AMP)-activated protein kinase(AMPK).Besides,BOAA treatment upregulated the protein expressions of fibroblast growth factor receptors3(FGFR3),PPAR-α,extracellular signal-regulated kinase(ERK),phosphorylated ERK(p-ERK),AMPK,p-AMPK,Liver kinase B1(LKB1),phosphorylated LKB1(p-LKB1),acetyl-CoA carboxylase(ACC)and phosphorylated ACC(p-ACC),while downregulated the protein expressions of FGF21 and PPAR-γin visceral fat.CONCLUSIONS:BOAA treatment reduced FBG and body weight,and improved insulin sensitivity through regulating FGF21 signaling pathway and its related adipokine in obese T2DM rats.

Acupuncture Treatment of Abdominal Pain

Case History Mr. Li, a university student aged 23 years, paid his first visit on July 16, 2001, with the chief complaint of abdominal pain for one day. The patient stated that one day before when it happened to be the weekend, he got abdominal pain after supper, which went worse gradually and caused him to roll all over in bed. The pain was slightly alleviated half an hour later after he had taken some pain killers. Upon inquiry, the patient said that because of their newly graduation from the university, he and his classmates were so excited that they went to have a sumptuous lunch with alcoholic drinks. And in the evening he ate again a delicious supper cooked for him by his mother, after which he continued to have some fruit and dessert.

Clinical application rules of different micro needle system therapy

Different micro needle system therapies have different advantages and characteristics.However,at present,the dominant diseases for which each therapy is appropriate are positioned relatively vaguely,and even the acupoint selections for the same disease are different.The clinical application of the dominant disease and application characteristics of each micro needle system therapy is a scientific problem that needs to be explored urgently.Based on the previous data mining study of the clinical application of auricular acupuncture,scalp acupuncture,abdominal acupuncture,eye acupuncture,wrist-ankle acupuncture,hand acupuncture,the second metacarpal bone lateral needling,facial acupuncture,mouth acupuncture and nose acupuncture,the diseases reported more in the clinical literature of each therapy were extracted to find out the same symptoms applicable to different micro needle systems.The clinical application and differences of different micro needle systems for the same disease were compared horizontally,and it demonstrated that the second metacarpal bone lateral needling,facial needle,mouth acupuncture and nose acupuncture were biased towards a partial corresponding therapeutic relationship between one part and the other part,and the eye acupuncture was biased to interfere with the whole by adjusting the function of the organs,and the auricular,scalp and abdominal needles had the both characteristics,and the wrist-malleolus acupuncture and hand acupuncture were often used in various disorders of the meridian-collateral level.The differences were researched and summarized to more accurately guide clinicians in the application of different micro needle system therapies.