Clincal Efficiency and Experimental Observation of Scalp Needle Penetration on 432 Cases of Hemiplagia

Abstract

In china, cerebro-vascular disorders attract peoples' attention together with cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Two third of the disorders are cerebral thrombosis. The prevention and treatment of hemiplegia become now very important problems. In Japan, although theoretical studies are conducted, they mainly use pharmaco-therapy and rehabilitation in clinical places. Since needling is not often used there, the efficacy and the mechanisms of acupuncture for hemiplegia are not often reported.
I came from The Acupuncture Department of Heilungchian Chinese Medical School in China last April, and have been trained in the Neuro-Internal Department of Niigata University Brain Reseach Laboratry for nearly one year. In this period of time, I sometimes visited the doctors who could use Chinese medicine, and sometimes discussed with acupuncturists. Many of them were interested in our scalp penetrating acupuncture treatment of hemiplegia caused by cerebral thrombosis using needling. We introduce here our acupuncture treatment undertaken for 432 cases of hemiplegia after cerebral thrombosis during the past ten years, and discuss the efficacy and the mechanism of it.