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KMID : 0608520110170010121
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Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
2011 Volume.17 No. 1 p.121 ~ p.133
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The Effect of Non-Invasive Shinmun(HT7) Point Stimulus by ‘DONG CHU CHIM’ on HRV
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Park Hwang-Jin
Lee Sang-Nam
Park Ji-Ha
Han Chang-Hyun
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Abstract
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‘Dong Chu Chim(DCC)’ is invented by ‘Dong-Chu Han Medicine Institute(東樞桓醫學硏究院)’ and Oriental medicine doctors at ‘Dong-Chu Han Medicine Institute’ apply DCC clinically for Qi-gong therapy. Since the DCC is shaped similar to ‘round-point acupuncture(圓鍼)’ and the tip of DCC is round, it can stimulate the acupoints of skin non-invasively, unlike filiform acupuncture(毫鍼). The present study was performed to verify the clinical usefulness of DCC by measuring heart rate variability(HRV) that reflect change of the autonomic nervous system. Twenty-five healthy subject were treated with DCC or filiform acupuncture(毫鍼) in turn and HRV was measured during five minutes for three times (before, during, and after treatment, called as stage Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ respectively).
As compared with stage Ⅰ, mean heart rate(HRT) was decreased and standard deviation of all normal R-R intervals (SDNN) was increased significantly in stage Ⅱ and Ⅲ of treatment of two types of acupunctures. Log-transformed total power(LOGTP) and log-transformed very low frequency power(LOGVLF) were increased significantly in stage Ⅲ compared with stage Ⅰ, especially subjects treated with DCC displayed significant increase of LOGVLF and LOGTP in stage Ⅱ compared with stage Ⅲ. Additionally, there were no significant differences between both type of acupunctures in terms of its effect on HRV of each stage. From these findings, It seems that non-invasive stimulus of DCC affects on the autonomic nervous system and can control the balance of that like filiform acupuncture. Therefore, it would be expected that the doctor can apply DCC clinically for patients who have needle phopia or children. It is suggested that additional studies about the effect of DCC on other acupoints and comparison study about the effect of DCC with those of the finger-pressure treatment using other tool should be done in the future.
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KEYWORD
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Qi-gong, Position, Heart Rate Variability(HRV)
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