腰痛に対する鍼灸治療 (II)

鍼とにんにく灸並びに単刺と置鍼の比較研究

抄録

At the 5th World Congress of Acupuncture I presented a paper entitled Acupuncture and Moxibustion for Lumbago (I) which, based on a pilot examination was a comparison of the therapeutic effects of acupuncture therapy and garlic moxibustion. The results indicated no significant differences in the rates of cure, alleviation or other factors between the two groups. In other words the results of both types of therapy were similar.
At this time in order to verify the validity of results obtained in both groups and to make them more significant, I performed a pilot examination using random allocation and joint comparison of the two groups. Also in order to verify the therapeutic effectiveness of the two groups I conducted a comparative experiment in which simple insertion methods were used on one group and stationary insertion for 10 minutes used on another group.
Results showed in the first experiment based on the pilot examinations no differences, however in the latter experiment differences were observed in the effectiveness of therapy in the simple insertion group and the stationary insertion group.
From the above it can be stated that the effects of stationary insertion and garlic moxibustion are the same. Moreover, in the treatment of lumbago, stationary insertion proves more effective than simple insertion.