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http://dx.doi.org/10.14406/acu.2013.038

Effects of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at Lower Sea Points on the Intestinal Motility with Loperamide-Induced Constipation in Rats  

Yu, Yun-Cho (Department of Physiology, College of Oriental Medicine, Woosuk University)
Kwon, O-Sang (Acupuncture, Moxibustion & Meridian Research Group Division of Medical Research, KIOM)
Yang, Seung-Bum (Department of Meridian & Acupoint, College of Korean Medicine, Wonkwang University)
Kim, Min-Su (Department of Meridian & Acupoint, College of Korean Medicine, Wonkwang University)
Kim, Jaehyo (Department of Meridian & Acupoint, College of Korean Medicine, Wonkwang University)
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Korean Journal of Acupuncture / v.30, no.4, 2013 , pp. 272-280 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objectives : The aim of this study was to observe effects of manual acupuncture(MA), electro-acupuncture(EA) and moxibustion (MO) on the rat with loperamide-induced constipation. Methods : This study measured small intestinal motility and number of fecal pellets in rats with loperamide induced constipation. MA and EA(intensity, 5 times muscle twitch threshold) was applied for 30 minutes and MO was treated on 5 times moxa cautery to the groups divided with age and sex. Results : The small intestinal motility was decreased by ST36 EA and ST37 EA in 5 weeks male group and ST37 EA in 7 weeks male and female groups, and ST36 MO in 7 weeks female group, but it was increased by ST39 EA in 7 weeks male group and ST37 MO and ST39 MO in 7 weeks male group. The number of fecal pellets was decreased by MA, EA, MO of ST36 in all group except 5, 7 weeks male groups only, and MA, EA of ST37 in 5, 7 weeks male group and ST37 MO in 7 weeks female group, and ST39 EA in 5 weeks male group and 7 weeks female group and ST39 MO in 7 weeks female group, but increased by ST37 EA in 5 weeks female group and ST39 EA in 7 weeks male group. Conclusions : Although these differences do not have a established tendency, it suggests that acupuncture and moxibustion are experimentally dependent upon the sex and age on intestinal motility in rats.
Keywords
acupuncture; moxibustion; ST36; ST37; ST39; intestinal motility;
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