Assessing the effects of acupuncture by comparing needling the hegu acupoint and needling nearby nonacupoints by spectral analysis of microcirculatory laser doppler signals

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hsiu, Hsin ^a   Hsu, Wei Chen ^b   Hsu, Chia Liang ^c   Huang, Shih Min ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROCIRCULATORY LASER DOPPLER SIGNAL; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SPECTROSCOPY; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 80052772301     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/neq073     Document Type: Article

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