The study of the pathogenetic role of acupuncture meridians in the development of ischemic stroke based on electropunctural diagnostics by Nakatani

Abstract

The aim of the study was to investigate the characteristics of the energy state of classical meridians by the electropuncture diagnostics according to the method of Nakatani among the patients in acute period of ischemic stroke, depending on the affected vascular basin and clinical symptoms for the individualization of approaches to reflexotherapy. The material for the study is based on two groups of patients: the first (n = 27) – with a stroke in the internal carotid artery, the second (n = 23) – in the vertebrobasilar system. As a control group, 20 volunteers without clinically significant diseases, representative by sex and age, were examined. The study revealed a number of common features in contrast to the control group: Deficiency in the meridians of the Lungs (р ? 0,05), Heart (р ? 0,001), Small intestine (р ? 0,05), Pericardium (р ? 0,001) and Triple warmer (p ? 0,05) and Excess in the Liver, Spleen (р ? 0,01), Stomach (р ? 0,01), Bladder (р ? 0,005) and Kidney (р = 0,050) channels. Patients who had a stroke in the vertebrobasilar system showed a more pronounced Deficiency in the meridians of Small and Large intestine (р ? 0,05), as well as a more significant excess in the channels of the Kidney (р ? 0,001) and the Gall bladder (р ? 0,001).