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Visualizing Motion Patterns in Acupuncture Manipulation
Published on: July 16, 2016
[Progress of the application of PET technology in acupuncture research]
Qiu-Lei Guo1, Qing-Guo Liu2, Fang-Yuan Yang2
1the First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China.
Abstract:
To further investigate the application of positron emission tomography (PET) technology in acupuncture research field, with "PET" and "acupuncture" as keywords, the related literature published from 1997 to 2018 was searched in PubMed, CNKI and WANFANG database; then the literature was classified and analyzed. The results showed that in clinical and experimental studies, whether in physiological or pathological conditions, PET technology has verified the specificity of acupoints, bidirectional regulation of acupoints, and the clinical effect of qi-arrival from the level of brain functional activity. It has deeply revealed the central mechanism underlying that acupuncture has multi-target, multi-channel and multi-level overall effects. The purpose of this study is to provide objective scientific basis for acupuncture research, and then potentially guide the clinical practice.
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