J Tradit Chin Med. 2001 Mar; 21(1): 20-2.

Forty-five cases of apoplexy treated by electroacupuncture at the points of yin meridians.

Li J.

First Hospital Affiliated to Medical College of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, Guangdong Province.

Forty-five cases of apoplexy were treated by electroacupuncture only at the points of Yin Meridians (i.e. the Hand- and Foot-Taiyin Meridians), and the other 30 cases as the controls were treated only at the points of Yang Meridians (i.e. the Hand- and Foot-Yangming Meridians). The total effective rate was 91.1% in the former and 86.7% in the latter, with no statistically significant difference between the two groups, indicating that acupuncture only at the points of Yin-Meridians is also an effective therapy for apoplexy.