Lifting-thrusting, twisting-twirling, uniform reinforcing-reducing, and needling with sensation propagating along channels, the effects of 4 different acupuncture manipulations has been observed on electrical activity of the stomach, by using amplitude and frequency of electrogastrogram (EGG) as the indexes. The experiment has proved that both the twisting-twirling and the uniform reinforcing-reducing methods inhibited electrical activity of the stomach to reduce the frequency of EGG (P<0.05), and at the same time the uniform reinforcing-reducing method decreased the amplitude (P<0.001). Both the lifting-thrusting method and needling sensation propagating along channels excited electrical activity of the stomach to raise the amplitude of EGG (P<0.01), and the lifting-thrusting method increased the frequency (P<0.001).
Result: The lifting-thrusting method or needling sensation propagating along channels manipulation was suitable for chronic superficial gastritis, chronic atrophic gastritis, stomach cancer with lower frequency and amplitude of EGG; the uniform reinforcing-reducing or twisting-twirling method was fit for patients with gastric and duodenal ulcer and hyperhydrochloria with higher frequency and amplitude of EGG.
Key Words: Different acupuncture manipulation, electrogastrogram, stomach
Writer：Wentang Xing
Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Affiliated Hospital of Datong Medical School, Datong 037008
Writer： Qihai (CV6) Li
The Second People's Hospital, Datong 037004
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