Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Za Zhi. 1991 Feb; 11(2): 94-6, 69.

[Clinical research and mechanical inquiry in the treatment of chronic superficial gastritis using ziwuliuzhu day-prescription of acupoint]

Zhou ZL.

Dept. of Acupuncture, General Hospital of PLA, Beijing.

According to the day-prescription of acupoint mentioned by Xu Feng in Encyclopaedia of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, the authors used opening acupoints to treat 31 chronic superficial gastritis patients (young male) and closing points to treat 15 patients for comparison. Besides, the authors observed the changes of hydrochloric acid of gastric juice, volume of juice and serum gastrin of the patients before and after the acupuncture. Results of clinical treatment: In the opening acupoint group, 13 were cured, 12 effected, 4 improved and 2 ineffective. The total effective rate was 93.55%. There was no significant difference between the results of the two groups. Results of experiment: to the hyperacidity patients of the two groups, the content of hydrochloric acid tended to fall after acupuncture while to the hypoacidity patients the content tended to rise after acupuncture. The changes of the gastric juice volume were different in the two groups. In the opening group, we could also see that the low volume rose and high volume fell after acupuncture. However, the closing group showed that the low volume fell after acupuncture. There was not any significant difference. The changes of serum gastrin indicated that, after acupuncture, all the serum gastrin in the two groups went up. But the peak value in the opening group appeared at 30 minutes after acupuncture while in the closing group it appeared at one hour. In both groups, there were significant differences between those results before and after acupuncture.