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The number of medical charts indicating nycturia therapy I have accumulated since 1976 numbers 12. Of these complete cure was obtained in 10 cases, improvement in 1 case and in 1 case treatment was discontinued. The causes of nycturia are being studied by Western medicine but at present the causes are not completely cure. When children reach the age of 3, through education and training they should be able to control the urination mechanism independently. Generally children can use the toilet by themselves at the latest by the age of 4 years, however there are children who have wet their beds ever since they were born and children 5 or even older who are incontinent 2 or 3 times a night in their sleep.
For these types of nycturia acupuncture-moxibustion therapy included such basic points as CV-2, CV-3, CV-4, ST-25, CV-12, LV-14, GV-20, GV-12, BL-20, BL-22, BL-23, YO-KAN, BL-31, BL-32, BL-33, BL-25 and ST-36. The needles used were from 14-17mm depending on the age of the patient. Stationary insertion to a depth of 5mm, was administered for 5-10 minutes. Moxibustion included 3 half rice grain size cones of moxa at each moxibustion point. The number of treatments ranged from 4-30 with the time between periods differing from patient to patient.
Of the 10 cases in which complete cure was effected 7 were cases in which nycturia was irregular, 3 were cases of nightly nycturia. The case in which good results were obtained was a, case of nightly nycturia after 12 treatments. The fact that complete cure was not obtained was attributed to insufficient number of treatments. The one case in which therapy was discontinued was a 6 year old boy with a slight psychological disturbance who displayed unusual fear of acupuncture therapy and refused to submit to treatment. It was determined that acupuncture was inapplicable in his case and therapy was discontinued after 6 treatments. All of the above cases were male patients. As for famale patients, one girl came to our clinic for the first time Aug. 30. Her grandmother brought her from Yamanashi, a 3 hour train ride. As she suffered from nightly nycturia her family woke her after she retired at 9 twice nightly, at midnight and 3 a. m. However as he was a very deep sleeper it was often impossible to awaken her and she often wet her bed in her sleep. As her family requested moxibustion therapy I marked and instructed them to use the above points as moxibustion points and administer inductive heat moxibustion with 3 half rice grain size cones of moxa at each point. After 10 months they reported the child easier to awaken in the night thus eliminating the problem of bedwetting.
I would like to report the above examples however as the number of cases is so few I will refrain from drawing any conclusions at this time. I would like to continue my research until I have 50 sample cases and attempt to draw conclusions at that time.
