抄録
Using the peripheral nerves of human subjects, a study was conducted on the activity of efferent sympathetic postganglionic fibers controlling the soleus, and on the basis of tonus, its response to acupuncture stimulation was observed.
1. Microneurography is efficient as a method for monitoring the participation of the sympathetic nervous system in response to acupunture stimulation.
2. The spontaneous dischrge of the vasoconstrictor nerve controlling the soleus shows a cycle in which the activity varies with changes in the arterial blood pressure. This experiment revealed that this cycle was affected by acupuncture stimulation. The changes in degree of this affect were dependent upon the specificity of an individual.
3. The method, ‘Koshi’, one the classical approaches in the theory of acupuncture, can be used as a method of changing the regional circulatory movement of a leg other than the one to which acupuncture stimulation is applied.
