Observation of microvascular perfusion in the Hegu (LI4) acupoint area after deqi acupuncture at Quchi (LI11) acupoint using speckle laser blood flow scanning technology

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Huang, Tao ^a   Yang, Li Jian ^b   Zhang, Wei Bo ^a   Jia, Shu Yong ^a   Tian, Yu Ying ^a   Wang, Guan Jun ^a   Mu, Xiang ^b   Wang, Lu ^c   Litscher, Gerhard ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (China)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CHINESE MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER SCANNING CYTOMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; OBSERVATION; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 84870226312     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/604590     Document Type: Article

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