| Title |
Analysis of Meridians Potential as Ground Condition for Objectification of Acupuncture Effect |
| Authors |
이용흠(Lee, Yong-Heum) ; 이균정(Lee, Qyoun-Jung) ; 김은근(Kim, Eun-Geun) ; 김한성(Kim, Han-Sung) ; 신태민(Shin, Tae-Min) |
| Keywords |
acupuncture ; meridian potential ; stomach meridian ; ground |
| Abstract |
Background: As patients are positioned at insulated bed and practitioner are positioned at insulated floor or shoes, it could be a cause of lessening effect in acupuncture practice. We investigated how Ground connection could influence on the electrical meridian potential between practitioner and patient during acupuncture practice. Method: We treated 30 normal healthy subjects with acupuncture and measured changes in the electrical potential between the stomach meridian points ST-39 and ST-37 in response to light touch after insertion of a needle at ST-36. At first, we stimulated needle and measured electrical potentials for non ground, patient ground only, practitioner ground only, all ground, respectively. Result: All ground subject elicited positive mean potential 44.6pm19.2μV and showed 181.4pm59.7μV peak to peak potential. practitioner ground only showed negative mean potential -51.5pm9.3μV and 367.4pm27.8μV of peak to peak potential. Patient ground only revealed no mean potential as 2.9pm1.3μV, 16.4pm11.9μV of peak to peak potential. All ground showed no mean potential as 1.6pm0.7μV, 3.3pm1.9μV of peak to peak potential. respectively. |