Acupuncture and Moxibusion for the Hypersensitivity to Coldness (II)

Covelation with Menstruation, Pelvic Diaweters and abdominal Symptoms

Abstract

Among 228 student nurses aged from 19 to 30 years at Tokyo Eisei Gakuen Semmon Gakko of the Goto Gakuen (College of Medical Arts), 132 (58%) complained of a feeling of cold. Thirty students complaining of a particularly severe feeling of cold in this group were examined by various procedures including observation and questionnaire. Many of the findings associated with the feeling of cold in climacteric women (presentation at the 36th General Meeting of Japan Society of Acupuncture) are also comon to younger people. In the present study, disorders of pelvic circulation were examined in relation to this disease. The results were as follows. (1) Pelvic circumferential measurement revealed that the patients tended to have a contracted pelvis. (2) This finding correlated with their abdominal signs and symptoms. (3) Complaints associated with prominent autonomic symptoms were frequently noted before and during menstruation. (4) Infrared thermography for skin temperature distribution showed hypothermic areas distributed in the lower half of the body and (5) slight temperature variations in deep areas with time.