Acupuncture De-qi: From Characterization to Underlying Mechanism

Overview

Journal Evid Based Complement Alternat Med

Specialty Rehabilitation Medicine

Date 2013 Nov 7

PMID 24194782

Citations 22

Authors

Shi-Peng Zhu

Li Luo

Ling Zhang

Song-Xi Shen

Xiao-Xuan Ren

Meng-Wei Guo

Jia-Min Yang

Xiao-Yu Shen

Yong-si Xu

Bo Ji

Jiang Zhu

Xiao-Hong Li

Lu-Fen Zhang

Affiliations

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Abstract

De-qi refers to the participant's subjective sensations and objective body responses as well as the acupuncturist's perceptions while the acupuncturist needles certain acupoints in the participant's body. In recent years, De-qi is getting increasing attention of the researchers and many efforts have been made to understand its mechanism. By the broad literature survey, this paper explores the subjective De-qi sensation of the patients, its influencing factors, and the resulting physiological responses. The purpose of this paper is expected to find out a possible mechanism of De-qi and to provide certain scientific evidence for acupuncture fundamental research and clinical practice.

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