|
KMID : 1123920100240050814
|
|
Korean Journal of Oriental Physiology and Pathology
2010 Volume.24 No. 5 p.814 ~ p.821
|
|
|
Combined Acupoint’s Effects of Cauterizing with Moxa at SI8, LI11, SP9 and ST36 on Small Intestinal Motility in Rats
|
|
Yu Yun-Cho
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
The purpose of this study was to investigate effects of moxibustion at combined acupoints on sex and age in rats. This study measured the effects of moxibustion on small intestinal motility in rats. Cauterizing with moxa was applied 5 times to the acupoints on SI8, LI11 SP9 and ST36 under enflurane anesthesia in the groups divided with sex and age. In single acupoint groups, cauterizing with moxa on ST36 increased in all of sex and age groups. The SP9 group with 5, 6 weeks in female and 5, 8 weeks in male, the SI8 group with 5, 7 weeks in female and only 7 weeks in male, the LI11 group with only 5, 6, 7 weeks in female and only 7 weeks in male showed increasing on small intestinal motility. In combined acupoints groups, the SI8+SP9 group with 7 weeks in female and 5, 6, 8 weeks in male, the SI8+ST36 group with 5, 6 weeks in female and 8 weeks in male, the LI11+SP9 group with 5, 6 weeks in female and 6 weeks in male, the LI11+ST36 group with 5 weeks in female and 5, 6, 7 weeks in male showed increasing respectively. Although these different according to the sex and age in rats do not have a established tendency, the results suggested that the effects of combined acupoints of cauterizing with moxa have relation with individuality.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
moxibustion, moxa cautery, SI8, LI11, SP9, ST36, small intestinal motility
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|