INTRADERMAL FLUID ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY OF ABDOMINAL ASHI ACUPOINT FOR BILIARY COLIC

Wang Shiming, Wang Shijian, He Tinghua, Gao Chaogang, Chen Jingcao, Jiang Yongsheng, Zhan Yehua, Xiao Ming, Lu Shizhong, Wang Hongdu

(Luzhou Medical College, Sichuan)

Since Tuly 1982, we have studied on the therapeutical effects of the control of diseases of biliary colic by the intradermal fluid acupuncture to form a study of balance with An Fu Tong (mixture of atropine and promethazine Hydrochloridum) treatment. They totaled 54 cases on 96 occasions. According to the diagnostic standard for the treatment of diseases of biliary system drew up by the nation-wide combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine in 1979. We listed the symptoms of biliary colic which break out violently such as the explicitly diagnosed biliary ascariasis, cholelithiasis, acute cholelithcholecystitis as the object of survey.

Method: We calculated the patients on the basis of the order of admission to hospital and divided them into two groups at random. A suitable amount of distilled water was used in injection with sterilized 1 c.c. injector covered by No. 5 syringe needle to the flu id acupunctural group. We selected the most tenderness point in the patients abdomen and injected intradermally 0.3-0.4 c.c. after regular sterilization in order to cause the locality to show a typical orange peel-like change. We used An Fu Tong to inject intramuscularly in the hip, for the control group. The degree of alleviation of pain were taken as the index of observation and were classified into four grades. They were: alleviation, obvious alleviation, disappearance and no effect.

Result: Concerning the average time of alleviations in minutes of the diseases of biliary colic, the fluid acupunctural group was 5.2 while the contrast group was 12.0 (P<0,01), With regards to the average time in minutes of obvious alleviations, the fluid acupunctural group was 9.3 while the contrast group was 21.8 (P<0.01). Put forward the average time in minutes of disappearance, the fluid acupunctural group was 13.7 while the contrast group was 42.3 (P<0.01). To speak of the occasions of non-alleviations within 30 minutes, the fluid acupunctural group was zero while the contrast group was 5, It stated clearly that the intradermal fluid acupunctural treatment had affirmative therapeutical effect to the diseases of biliary colic. The former was also more quicker than the latter in the duration of the start of alleviation, obvious alleviation and disappearance. It did not show toxic side reactions as the general chemicals used. By reason of the above mentioned facts, therefore, the intra-dermal fluid acupunctural therapy of abdominal Ashi point was indeed a sort of simple, economic, safe and quick effective acupunctural method.