Klin Med (Mosk). 1991 Mar; 69(3): 69-72.

[Acupuncture therapy in the treatment of patients with bronchial asthma]

Aleksandrova RA, Zhikharev SS, Mineev VN, Sinitsina TM, Shchemelinina TI, Karpov OI, Pozigun MA, Duvakina AL, Zhikhareva NB, Solodovnikova GM.

Erythron membrane impairment was investigated using membrane -active drugs (obsidan, delagil, morphium, ethanol) to specify indications to acupuncture in bronchial asthma (BA). The patients were studied during the treatment and followed up for a year. It was found that both immediate and long-term results of acupuncture were related to patterns of the membrane impairment. BA patients with a sharp, greater than 1.5 fold diminution of microcyte count upon delagil test should be assigned to repeated courses of acupuncture during a year. To monitor the treatment effect, it is recommended to define osmotic resistance of the red blood cells in obsidan test in addition to clinicofunctional indices.