Study of acupuncture in inducing body responses of Swiss patients

Abstract

ObjectiveTo observe Europeans' different responses to acupuncture, to analyze body tolerance, and to provide objective basis for clinical intervention temporal frequency of acupuncture-moxibustion in Europe. MethodsThe information of 168 patients (Swiss original residents) who visited doctor for the first time from December, 2013 to June, 2015 (MediQi AG Die Zentrenfür TCM) was collected, the duration and property of responses to acupuncture were analyzed, and SPSS 18.0 software was adopted to analyze the study result. ResultsResponses to acupuncture were observed in 65 patients (28 males and 37 females) with an incidence rate of 38.69% (65/168). According to Chi-squared test, the difference was not statistically significant (P>0.05). Among the patients with response, 49 patients felt fatigue (19 males and 30 females), 12 cases felt sore and swelling pain (7 males and 5 females), conduction along meridian occurred in 2 patients (1 males and 1 females), and 1 patient suffered from spasm (male). Based on statistical analysis, the differences were not statistically significant (all P>0.05). The duration of responseis (13.00 ± 12.51) h for male, and (32.81 ± 25.59) h for female, according to t-test, the difference was statistically significant (P<0.001). ConclusionThe incidence rate and property of responses to acupuncture has nothing to do with gender; the duration of responses to acupuncture is closely related with gender, and the duration of responses to acupuncture is longer in females.